New York Daily News - Sports - Mike Lupica's Shooting From the Lip: Jordan shoots around truth
Couple months back, I banned anything about or written by Mike Lupica on any of the blogs we do. Hey, don't laugh, 7, count them, 7 wonderful folks agreed with me enough to pledge that they'd stop reading his columns and even turn off The Sports Reporters on ESPN whenever tiny-boy was on and pontificating. Rome wasn't built in a day, ya know, but now I'm breaking my own mandate to report something that is worth reporting. Something that's actually news. Following Lil Mikey week after week as he changed gears to suit whatever super star athlete he felt would give him a stab in the seat, was monotonous, predictable, flat out boring, and the political content was simply too much.
But I'm here to report that this weeks Shooting From The Lisp, strike that, LIP, bears no mention of George Bush, his Presidency, or the White House. At all. Last week there were 8 derogatory leftwing comments...in a sports column, mind you, and all was well in the land of Trash-Lil-Mikey-Lupica (Lupica is Italian for no-dick, no-dick-at-all). This week it's all about, dare I say it, Sports.
Now, of course Lil Mikey praises Michael Jordan even as he's trying to tell the gambling tale, the same gambling tale that has NEVER been reported upon in anything resembling a fair manner because, well, after all, it's Michael Jordan, and he's a money machine and he's black and he's, well, he's Michael Jordan. Forget the fact that his own father was killed because of Michael's unpaid gambling debts, forget the fact that it's hard for him to find golfing partners because he's a terrible golfer, bets tens of thousand of dollars whenever he's playing, and never seems to have any cash on him...it's simply embarrassing for the well heeled guys to play him because they know he's always cash-poor and if the friendly bets were ever totalled he'd have to go back to playing basketball again just to make ends meet.
But he remains Michael Jordan...the media's darling then and now, so to say you've played golf with him is a pretty cool, bragging-rights deal. Once. After that, your friends laugh at you for taking anything the guy says seriously and you're looked upon as his links bitch.
But back to the other Mikey, the lil fella who "writes" for the Daily Snooze. Better than half of this weeks effort is about the taller Mikey, another third about how the new NBA dress code is good but bad...and Lupica misses the point by such a margin it'd be a sin to explain the real deal to him because we don't like seeing grown, well, half-grown men cry.
On to a quick diss directed at the Yankees, the obligatory mention of how much time he spends watching and teaching soccer, mention of the latest no-talent, never-been, washed up actor appearing in whatever dreary show he's currently in deep love with, but nothing about Bush, or Rove, or Cheney.
Amazing. This, my friends, is news.
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