What’s wrong with the world when sports figures get away with everything they do?

OK. It’s been almost a week since Letrell Sprewell decided it
was within the bounds of polite society to choke and pummel his coach. I
really don’t care why he thought it was all right. He got what he deserved
when the team fired him and the NBA suspended him for a year. In fact I
think he got off light! He *should* have been kicked out of the sport for
life.

##Mayor Willie Brown

Proving that he’s as much an ass and as incompetant as I always thought he
was, Mr. Brown is quoted recently in the paper saying that perhaps the
coach “deserved to be hit.” I’m sorry Mr. Brown, but there’s *nothing*
that the coach could have *said*, absolutely nothing, that means he
deserves to be hit by one of his players. Quoting from one of my favorite
books, “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetant.”

##Sports leagues as corporations

The various professional sports leagues should be thought of simply as a
corporation. And just like any other corporation they have the right to
hire and fire as they see fit according to what they believe is best for the corporation (within the limits of the law). In other words, they have
the right to say “Letrell Sprewell isn’t the type of player we want in our
league, so he can’t be in it.”

There are those that would say that Mr. Sprewell has a *right* to
play. To that I say that he does **not** have the right to play, but
rather has the right to *pursue* playing professional basketball.
Part of that pursuit is to behave in such a way that he can be a part of a
team.

##Here’s my list

As you may have gathered by this point, I think Mr. Sprewell should have
been kicked out of the NBA for life. That may sound kind of harsh, but
remember, Pete Rose got kicked out of baseball for life for gambling. And
they were never able to show that he gambled on his own team, or that the
gambling affected his play as a player, or his decisions as a manager. If
it’s good enough for Pete, it’s good enough for Letrell.

So, in
the interest of fair play, here’s my list of others that *should*
have been kicked out of their respective sports over the last few years.

• Roberto Alomar: Anyone who thinks it’s all right to spit in the face of a league official in any sport doesn’t deserve to be able to play.
  
• Mike Tyson: The man is a convicted rapist! He has the right to

  make a living, and live a life. But that life shouldn’t be priviledged. In

  any case, he comes back and then bites the ear off Evander Hollyfield! The

  boxing commissions slapped his wrist and gave him a small fine! If I bit

  someone’s ear off I’d be in jail.

• Charles Barklay: Just for always having a bad attitude
  
• Michael Irvin: Same here.
  
• Dennis Rodman: Who does he think he is kicking a courtside

  observer! Hey Dennis, guess what? You work for us, the paying

  public! Get a clue!

[Apple stymied in search for new CEO (12/05/1997)](http://www1.sjmercury.com/business/apple/docs/newceo120697.htm)
Why doesn’t Apple just give up and admit that Steve is going to be
the man in the CEO office!

Was Moe Norman the best ball striker ever?
[Judge for yourself](http://www.golfweb.com/linksmagazine/9707/heroes.html.)

Just for fun, take a look at the
[Astronomy Picture of the Day](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html.)

Tiger wins another award, along with Sorenstam and Irwin as
[the GWAA player of the year](http://www.golfonline.com/news/1997/awards/gwaa1202.html.)

Is Jack Nicklaus the greatest golfer ever? Read
[this](http://www.golfweb.com/linksmagazine/9711/heroes.html)
and get an ideas as to why the answer is ‘YES’.

Ron Sirak thinks that
[Walking is a part of Golf](http://www.golfweb.com/library/sirak/carts971202.html.)
I have to agree. I mean, I’m out there to enjoy the scenery, not just hit a little
white ball around the course!

Here’s what I think about the movie
[[Alien Resurrection]]

and
[here’s what other people think about it](http://us.imdb.com/cache/title-exact/10530)

After the show that Tom Lehman put on at the Skins Game, I’m ready for more.
[The field is set for the Senior Skins Game](http://www.golfweb.com/news/snrskins971130.html)

Tiger is in the top ten!
[But not in what you’re thinking!](http://www.golfweb.com/news/forbes971130.html)

[[tigerandlehman971130]]
Tom Lehman sets an unofficial course record on his way to winning
[The Skins Game](http://www.golfweb.com/ga97/pga/1104/)

We might have a choice beyond Navigator and Explorer soon as
[New Browser Options Emerge](http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/1997/11/1130browser.html)

Here’s
[a cool interview with Patrick Stewart](http://www.eonline.com/Hot/Qa/Stewart/)
that I ran across today. I don’t know when it was done, but I like it!

Mike Mayo
[Gives Thanks to Golf](http://www.golfweb.com/library/mayo/mayo971127.html) page.

[Couples withdraws from Skins game](http://www.golfweb.com/news/couples971126.html)
with the death of his father.
Our thoughts are with you Freddie.

The first skin of the day went to Tiger, but Tom Lehman cam on like gangbusters at
[The Skins Game](http://www.golfweb.com/ga97/pga/1104/)

The should have stopped at 2!

Classic sci-fi/horror movie that set the standard.

##Capsule Review

Resurrects the ailing series and gives it back its credibility

##Just Be Thankful

On “Thanksgiving 1997” there’s one thing that I’m thankful
for for sure: They made a 4th [[Alien]] movie! The title for it is apropos.
They’ve resurrected a series of movies from oblivion with the sin that
was [[Alien 3]].

##The Plot

[[alienRes]]
Evil military scientists decide they want to breed Aliens and
train them for military operations. In order to do so they need 2 things:
an Alien Queen, and hosts for her babies.

To get an alien queen they clone Ripley with a drop of blood left in the
med lab at the prison colony on Fury 16. This will get them a queen because
Ripley was infected with a queen during the events in [[Alien 3]], and the
infection is all the way down to the genetic level. That is, the strands of
DNA from Ripley’s blood contain Alien DNA as well.
After surgically removing the queen from Ripley, they decide to keep her
around because there’s nothing better to do with her anyway.

They get hosts by buying them from a group of smugglers that have obtained,
somehow, a group of humans in cryogenic freezers.

The scientists harvest the eggs from the queen and, with the help of the
hosts, get 14 aliens. As you would expect (because this is an Alien movie),
the aliens get out and all hell breaks loose.

##The Good

Sigorney Weaver, as always, delivers a great performance as
the resurrected Ripley. There’s one scene in particular that I thought was
as good as anything she’s ever done. It’s when Ripley happens upon the
cloning lab and finds the results of the 7 previous attempts at cloning
her. It’s really hard to describe the scene: there’s no dialogue just the
look of horror/disgust/rage/sorrow/etc. on her face.

Winona Ryder as Call, the smuggler with a secret, is also excellent,
although her character doesn’t get nearly enough screen time.

The rest of the smugglers all fulfill their role as alien fodder adequately.

This movie was kind of a cross between all three previous outings. It had the closeness and suspense from [[Alien]], with some of the action from
[[Aliens]], and the darkness of [[Alien 3]]. Unfortunately, it got something
else from Alien 3, a mediocre script.

##The Bad

The writer (Josh Whedon) left out one thing that really
bugged me. How was the resurrected Ripley able to remember events from the
real Ripley’s life? Well, he does sort of explain it as a byproduct of the
genetic mixing of Ripley’s DNA and the alien’s, saying that it must be
because of the genetic memory of the alien species. Pahleeasse. In the
first 5 minutes out of the theater, my friend and I came up with 2 other
reasons that would at least seam plausible. This was the best one:

“When you had the brainscan at the prison colony an imprint was made of
your memories. In an effort to make ‘birthing process’ easier for you, we
reimplanted those memories in you.”

I mean, wouldn’t that have been better?

##The Ugly

The new creature that turns up at the end is almost laughable.
The idea of a genetic cross between an alien and a human is a good one,
but the execution lacked.

##Summary

Alien Resurrection is a worthy addition to the Alien
mythos. Go see it on a big screen, but don’t pay full price. A matinee
seems about the right amount of money to pay.

Just a teaser for you Windows users. Dave Winer has some
[Thanksgiving thoughts](http://www.scripting.com/davenet/97/11/thanksgiving1997.html)
for 1997.

The Sharks are on a roll, but
[Tie doesn’t suit Sharks](http://www.sjmercury.com/sports/main/docs/082352.htm.)
They’ve had a great road trip, but it’s not enough for these
hungry guys.

Here’s some info about the
[Paris premier of Alien Resurrection](http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/news/971114/4.html)

I’ve added a couple of pages that have the sources for some scripts I use
to maintain this site:

• “dropcap()”
• “imageCaption()”

These are “Fat Pages” for [[Frontier]]. If you don’t use Frontier,
they will be of no use to you.

Tiger gets
[Sports Star of the Year](http://www.golfweb.com/news/tigersportsman971121.html)
award for combining excellence in his sport with significant charitable endeavors

And
[Nancy Lopez wins the Bob Jones Award](http://www.golfweb.com/news/lopez971120.html)
The USGA’s top award is given in recognition of distinguished
sportsmanship in the game, seeking one who emulates Jone’s spirit, qualities
and attitude toward the game and its players.

[Stanford wins 100th Big Game](http://www.sjmercury.com/sports/main/docs/076744.htm)

Maybe Dean Lombardi isn’t as dumb as I think he is.
[SHARKS ACQUIRE MIKE RICCI FROM COLORADO](http://www.sj-sharks.com/sharks/news/971120.html)
for Sean Donovan. Now, I really liked Sean as a player, but he never quite
seemed to hit his stride (in fact he was almost sent down to the minors
at the beginning of the year). Ricci, on the other hand, is a proven
force. How Lombardi managed this is beyond me, but it’s
already paying off.

Victor Chi: [Help on the way](http://www.sjmercury.com/sports/sharks/docs/sha112197.htm)
with the Ricci trade.

[Sharks extend win streak to three](http://www.sjmercury.com/sports/main/docs/052068.htm)
as Mike Ricci scores in his first game as a Shark.