Rants and Ranks

courtesy: nba.com It's usually the time when I'm complaining about the all-star selections, and believe it's coming, but today's topic is about another type of selection.  Arguably the more prestigious selection of the Olympic team.  It's down to the 30 finalists, and Team USA has an embarrassment of riches.  Even still, I thought I could whip up my list of 12 with no problem.  Wrong.  I figured out my starting 5 relatively easy, but 5 of the 7 subs was mind-wracking.   When the list of finalists came out, people were complaining about the lack of "player X" or "player Y."  What the common fan fails to realizes is that this isn't the all-star game.  It's not picked by fan-favorites.  In fact, the best player in the world could choose not even to play.  Case in point: fresh off shutting down LeBron for his Finals MVP, Kawhi Leonard opted to not play in the FIBA championships in '14 even though he would have been a shoe-i...

These are my personal matches of the year in WWE.  I didn't include NXT in case you were wondering.  It was a pretty down year again, but these bouts (in chronological order) are worth a re-watch or two.   Seth Rollins vs. John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar, Royal Rumble Had this match not been on the 2015 Rumble, I'm pretty sure this would be the worst WWE PPV I'd ever seen.  Aside from the worst Rumble match ever, the undercard was a total snooze-fest as everything under delivered. courtesy: ign.com The most important aspect of this match was that it showed Rollins could hang with the big boys.  He had his "coming out party" if you will.  The slow-motion replay of his "Shane dive" onto the announce table is nearly breathtaking.  He is such an incredible athlete.  He also busted out the Phoenix Splash which I don't believe his done since entering WWE.  Very entertaining match. Daniel Bryan vs. Roman Reigns, Fastlane There was a ...