The End of Sports as We Know It

The Lakers have done it again. And this time, they won it all without Shaq. Kobe Bryant made sure Los Angeles would beat the Orlando Magic, and in only five games.

So Kobe has finally proved he can win a championship without Shaq, which should quiet O’Neill for a little while. Of course it must have been weird for Shaq to watch two of his former teams play in the finals, I wonder who he rooted for, my guess would be for the Magic.

Now that the NHL and NBA finals have concluded, we as sports fans are left with just baseball for the summer. But hey, football is less than three months away, and I will be at the first college football game of the year. The game features the South Carolina Gamecocks at the North Carolina State Wolfpack, look for me in the Student Section on ESPN, September ( ).

But we still have the College Baseball World Series for the next week or so. Then we have the MLB for the rest of summer. That is not necessarily a bad thing though. We have unusual division leaders and contenders in baseball this year. The Rangers lead the AL West and have one of the best records in baseball, the Royals continue to jockey for first in the AL Central, and the Brewers are back in first in the NL Central.

For all you Twitter users out there, look for First and Short on Twitter, updates will be given annually. That’s all I’ve got for today, you stay classy, America.