This is not a sports story.

Now here is a sports story. I am a little skeptical of the trade, everyone I have heard from says LaPorta is our best minor leaguer and was either going to be Fielder's replacement or left field once Hart moves to center next year. I am not a fan of trading for someone who will get 12 starts the rest of the season and then walk away and be signed by the Yankees or Mets. But after watching various sports debate shows I am a little more of a fan of it all.

The positives: its managements way of saying to the players and the fans that they want to win and are willing to spend money to win. Now there is more pressure on management to sign the likes of Hardy, Hart, and Fielder this off season because there is less talent in the minors. The Brewers will get 2 picks at the end of the 1st round when Sabathia walks (and 2 for Sheets). I guess Sabathia is a powerful dug house guy and can be a positive influence on the young pitchers. Sabathia can challenge Fielder in an eating contest. And finally, the Brewers do have a shot at this; they are tied for the Wild Card and 3 1/2 back from the division.

Now here is NOT a sports story. Who cares about A-rod divorcing his wife. All over the Internets are stories of A-rod going with Madonna and his wife going with Lenny Kravitz. Then reports of them getting divorced, and now reports of Madonna getting a divorce, then she isn't, then she is. Who cares. In now way is this a sports story and should not be on ESPN.

This story is also NOT a sports story. Any one who watched Sports Center on Sunday saw them replaying over and over again about the Bradley student who was killed when a fireworks prank went bad and how they rallied and won some soccer games in honor of him. How is this a sports story? Its a tragic story of real life consequences of some students acting stupid. Its just as tragic if the kid was not on the soccer team or if they hadn't won a bunch of games in honor of him. Why is it that sports center is making the world care about such a story because it does involve sports, shouldn't we care about stories like this even if he hadn't played sports? Maybe we should get homeless people to start playing sports then people will start caring about the homeless and unemployment rate in this country.

Lets cover real news

As we all know on Thursday February 8th Anna Nicole Smith passed away. Don't get me wrong, any one passing away is a sad tragic event. Especially see she was young and does have an infant child. But why is it special, and why is it a news story that she passed away. A) No matter what you say she is NOT famous. She never did anything except mary a rich old man and then attempt to inherit his fortune. She never made movies, was never on t.v., she never made an album, never did anything that would have turned her into a celebrity. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel alone had 61 death notices in the paper on Thursday, that would correlate into thousands of deaths across the country that day. Why make such special notice of her? MSNBC.com had her death as their main story for the majority of the day on Thursday, every news channel covered the story at night, and the Today on Friday morning started their broadcast with that story.

There are so many things occurring in the course of the day that need to covered so people who are oblivious to them occurring can get knowledge of them. Stories such as the mass genocides in Africa, health care in America, education reform, the poverty levels, a little thing called Iraq and Iran, and many other issues that actually constitute a news story. Not someone who has contributed nothing to society except a few punch lines for late night television.

Our lovely paper the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Saturday had an article about the death of Anna Nicole Smith and other "tragic blonds." The article compared her to Marilyn Monroe and Princess Dianne. Now come on thats more than a stretch. Monroe actually contributed to entertainment and was an actual celebrity. Plus she had "relationships" with some pretty powerful people of the era. Princess Dianne was more than just a celebrity; she did many many humanitarian things for people the world over and actually made a difference. She actually did died tragically as a cause of paparazzi pursuit and a drunk limo driver.

So lets cover actuall news stories that people the world over need to hear about because God knows people are going to actually pick up the paper or magazine and read about real issues. Lets also start defining the line between a tragic death and someone just dying. Just checked MSNBC.com a minute ago and one of their top stories was still about the aftermath of Anna Nicole Smith's death. I mean what "aftermath?"