Bent Corner

I just read a headline on a sports website that said the Oklahoma City Thunder have fired coach P.J. Carlesimo. At this point, I’m not sure that P.J. Carlesimo getting fired from a coaching position qualifies as news. I’ve lost count of how many times the man has been fired from an NBA team.

The headline reminded me of the fact that Oklahoma City has an NBA basketball team. During the off season, the Seattle SuperSonics pulled stakes and moved to Oklahoma. No, they aren’t being punished by the league. The owner actually wanted to move the team from Seattle to Oklahoma City.

I’d say that Thunder was the dumbest name ever for a professional basketball team, but I’m sure there is a semi-pro basketball team some where in the Philippines called something even dumber, but since I don’t understand Tagalog, I can’t really tell. I bet they named the team Thunder just so they could play the AC/DC song Thunderstruck during timeouts.

I cannot imagine them signing any quality free agents.  Who would want to live in Oklahoma City when they could live anywhere else?  Maybe having a perennial lottery pick team in Oklahoma City will help keep more underclassmen in college. If they know they have a good chance of being forced to play in Oklahoma City, they might just stay in school.

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This is what happens when an Australian General Dynamics F-111 hits a 30 lb pelican at 340 mph. Ouch!

When I was stationed in the Philippines and assigned to the 3rd Tac Fighter Wing and on a deployment to Korea, we had one of our F-4E’s hit by a goose. Maybe it was a duck. I don’t remember. I’m supporised there was even enough of it afterwards to make any kind of identification. It hit the aircraft between the port intake and the fuselage. It ripped a hole right through the aircraft. The aircrew was able to bring the F-4 back, but I don’t think it ever flew again. Maybe it did. I don’t remember. I just remember the carnage.

Make sure to check out this site where there are more pics of this F-111.