How About Oscars? Yes, It Was a Slow Sports Day

Monday meanderings: So Sunday was Oscar night. Like many others, I tuned in and was disappointed. No Oscar Robertson. No Oscar Charleston. No Oscar Gamble. No Oscar De La Hoya. Not even Oscar Bonavena. Or Oscar Schmidt. Thankfully, no Oscar Pistorius.

Want a sports link to the Oscars? How about SI swimsuit model Chrissy Teigen?

Oh, this was the Academy Awards? Well, that explains that.

About the closest that your humble correspondent could figure out having much of a sports connection to the cinematic celebration was Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue mode Chrissy Teigen was in the audience in Los Angeles. After all, she is the wife of John Legend, who won an Oscar with Chicago native Common for their song “Glory” from “Selma.”

I will admit to not seeing all of the televised event. I had left strict instruction with The Wife to wake me from my nighttime nap when David Niven came on to present an award. Ot maybe that was a flashback to a few decades ago. Anyway, she didn’t wake me, so I had to do it myself.

Catching up on the show was reasonably simple thanks to social media such as Twitter and Facebook. There was much lamenting that Joan Rivers wasn’t included in the In Memoriam. She might have been an Oscar presence on the red carpet, but she wasn’t much in the world of appearing in movies. But feel free to be outraged, if it so moves you. So movie fans/Joan Rivers fans can be just as silly as sports fans, it would seem.

And there were people upset that “American Sniper” didn’t win best picture. Because it was a left-wing plot against the movie. Just as sports fans have been known to believe there are conspiracies against their team and/or favorite players. It all makes sense — to those expressing their certainty about such slights.

And so, even on a day with almost no time spent watching sports (I admit to viewing some college basketball for a little while), there was something of a sports connection. And rest assured (or don’t; see if I care), as little as I might know about sports, I can guarantee you I know even less about the cinema. Difficult to believe, but so true.

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