My Sportsmen of the Year

I was disappointed in seeing that Drew Brees is the 2010 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the year. Brees did give a torn city a Super Bowl, but I felt there were two candidates that were more deserving of the award.

Sidney Crosby

It's not every year a country gets to host the Olympics, as Canada did. When a country does host the Olympics, the citizens and fans of the country generally want to get Gold in their favorite sport. Imagine the United States hosting the Olympics and getting Bronze in basketball. That would be devastating. Hockey is the sport of Canada. Imagine how painful it would of been for Canada to lose the gold medal in Hockey. That didn't happen, of course, because of Crosby.

Maya Moore

She was the star on a 90 game winning streak and two NCAA Womens Basketball Championships. During the streak Moore averaged 18.7 points per game and 2.3 steals. She averaged 8.5 rebounds per game and almost hit half of her three pointers. It seems as if Sports Illustrated takes the "man" part of Sportsman far too literally.

By Arjun Parikh

Theory on the Demise of the Streak

The longest winning streak in College Basketball is over. Thursday night, the UConn womens streak was halted by the Stanford Cardinal. I never wanted it to end, but if it was going to end, it was great that it was by my hometown college. Stanford played great, but I believe UConn threw the game.

In a news conference earlier this year Coach Geno Auriemma claimed that he would quit UConn and move on to find a challenge if his team did not lose in 2010. His team just happened to lose on their last game of the season, and I don't believe this is any accident. I saw Maya Moore, the womens equivalent of Kobe Bryant, missing wide open shots. Her missing open jumpers is the equivalent of Shaq missing an open dunk; it just doesn't happen.

They lost this team because it was actually relatively unimportant. They had already broken the 88 game streak previously held by UConn and it was a mid-season game. This lose will have no consequences. Barring a lot of losses during the regular season, UConn will still head to March Madness with a #1 seed. They will go there with their current head coach instead of a new one.

The only con in this loss is that the spotlight that was held on womens basketball will disappear as their is "nothing" excited to watch.

By Arjun Parikh