The last few days in the national sports scene have been a Paul J buffet of options. World Cup soccer, NBA finals, NHL Stanley Cup finals and our countries golf championship the US Open. 

Great weekend to honor the US Flag  and all the great athletes who dominate the world right?

Wrong.

In soccer, the USA soccer coach said publicly it wasn't realistic to think we have a shot of winning the World Cup. Wonder what he says behind closed doors? Whle Klinsmann is a German citizen, he said in 2013 he was going to get around to the paperwork of becoming a US citizen and vote in a presidential election.

Ok.

Doesn't matter, bottom line is the US is not a soccer power. We can't even hire a good American coach and we don't have one single player in the TOP 50 in the world. But, we do dominate in basketball right?

Maybe.

The best team in the NBA Finals has been the San Antonio Spurs. While I think their top player has been Kawhi Leonard, an American, he couldn't do it without the United Nations around him. The Spurs are made up of an Italian (Belinelli), two Frenchman (Parker/Diaw), Argentenian (Ginobili), Australian (Mills) and a Brazilian (Splitter).

America's Best Team has been imported. 

The US Open ,as of Sunday am, had been dominated by a German (Kaymer) who threatened to run away with the tourney. I don't know what we expected anyway, the USA has only won 3 of the last 10 US Opens.

At least we have the Stanley Cup Champ LA Kings! Ironically, in a sport dominated by Canadiens, the Kings roster didnt feature alot of Americans just good ones. The Kings roster is 83% non-American but featured an American captain (Brown), hero(Martinez) and goalie (Quick). We are on a roll!

What is our problem? I blame the buffet. The buffet of options for a kid in the USA. You can do whatever you want here and apparently whenever you want to. And, our kids would rather sit down and do it  in front of a computer.