BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Sergio Ramos is in good company



Sergio Ramos is in good company (or trophies that are roadkill)

I guess they won’t let Sergio Ramos hold the next trophy they win at Real Madrid. You heard it – Los Blancos waited 18 years to win the Copa del Rey (King’s Cup) only to see it shattered in 10 pieces after it slipped from Ramos’ grasp underneath the team bus they were riding.

When I saw that on the news, I instantly recalled two instances that were similar or some such.

In 2010, the Russian duo of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Valeri Bure won an ice skating dance competition. When the crystal trophy was handed to Gordeeva, she dropped it and it shattered on the ice. Bure found humor in the situation when he quipped, “It’s a Russian tradition to break the trophy on the ice for luck.” Bwahaha

After last year’s NCAA Finals where San Beda College swept San Sebastian College-Recoletos for the league title, fans clamored for MVP Sudan Daniel to sign autographs and pose for pictures along the south basket of the Araneta Coliseum. The American complied and he put down his trophy beside him. As he was moving along merrily signing away, he accidentally kicked his trophy breaking it in three pieces. Daniel was momentarily taken aback by what happened but like the trooper that he is, he continued signing autographs. 

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photo by Kiko Huesca/European Press Agency

Posted by Rick Olivares

1 comment:

  1. ishneakApril 27, 2011 at 11:20 PM

    hahahaha i saw this report (of being in good company) on CNN :))

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