The Warden

For those who don’t know, every time the University of Kentucky Wildcats have won the NCA A Men’s Basketball Championship, the Yankees have also gone on to take the World Series.

Some coaches have wondered whether Lin, who is of Taiwanese descent, did not receive a closer look by recruiters because of his ethnicity. Coaches have said recruiters, in the age of who-does-he-remind-you-of evaluations, simply lacked a frame of reference for such an Asian-American talent.

So think through what just happened here. For 12 relaxing months, any time all of us baseball geniuses were asked what we thought about the Yankees, we could just push our favorite knee-jerk-analysis button and answer: “Who the heck’s going to pitch on the nights CC Sabathia doesn’t?”

Uh-oh. So much for that.

(via Quickish)

If the Broncos lose tomorrow, it doesn’t mean anything about Tim Tebow. It doesn’t mean he sucks, it doesn’t mean he isn’t an NFL QB and it doesn’t take away from what happened last week and all season — it means the Broncos lost on the road to the bye-week-rested No. 1 seed in the AFC. Yeah, losing under those conditions would be humiliating. Come on.

The point is that Tim Tebow led the Broncos into the playoffs. The playoffs! The Broncos! A team that, before the season, was expected to win maybe 4 or 5 games as a best-case scenario — even fewer if Tebow was given the chance to start at QB. But Tebow is going to get shellacked in the first round of the playoffs! is the dumbest sports argument of the day. The most important words in that statement are “Tebow” and “playoffs.”

To a man, the Broncos believe this. They can’t explain the Tebow phenomenon, why he is having success despite such unorthodox mechanics. Backup wide receiver Demaryius Thomas said Denver’s season changed when coach John Fox pivoted from Kyle Orton to Tebow during a Week 4 loss to San Diego. Thomas was on the sideline injured, and said that when Tebow went in the game, “I just felt a spark.”