TV Renewals, Anime and Sports

1. TV Shows - Renewals
Happy to read that CBS decided to renew How I Met Your Mother and Shark. The last few episodes of How I Met Your Mother's Season 2 were excellent and I look forward to seeing this show again in 4 months.

Equally pleased to hear about the cancellation of Veronica Mars by CW - the series had started off with an excellent first season and followed it up with a decent second season but the third season was pretty dreadful. There was (desperate) talk about how the creators were hoping to keep the show alive by fast-forwarding a few years into the future and having Veronica as an FBI agent but I'm glad the network didn't go with it. This time-warp gimmick is already set to happen on One Tree Hill, so it's also good CW isn't turning into the Sci-Fi Channel.
Was pretty sad to hear about the cancellation of The Class by CBS and was then appalled to read that Fox had decided to renew Til Death (essentially just a bad remake of Married With Children). Obviously TV Shows get a greater shot at survival when they're on a smaller and weaker network.

2. Anime
Have watched the first episodes of Darker Than Black, Heroic Age, Kaze No Stigma, Shining Tears X Wind and Sola. None of them was mind-blowing but they all show some promise, so I'm giving them another chance.

Also watched the third episode of Hayate No Gotoku!. The first two episodes were decent enough but this third one was unfunny-silly. Might drop it if this trend continues.

The one gem among the newly released Animes has been Lovely Complex.

3. Sports
- I'm hoping San Antonio will win the NBA Championship. They closed out Phoenix 4-2 in the Western Conference semi-finals last week. Funny to keep reading on the Suns whining about Robert Horry's foul in Game 4. The rule which the Suns broke and got suspended for is a good one, it prevents the sort of ugly mass brawls that plague so many other sports.

- San Antonio is now leading Utah 1-0 and Detroit leads Cleveland 1-0. Sidenote, I can't stand LeBron James and a lot of it has to do with his name, it sucks. Anyway, assuming San Antonio win the West and Detroit win the East, I wonder whether my Spurs will be able to beat Detroit.

- I'm glad Chelsea won the FA Cup on Saturday. Didier Drogba's goal was a pretty good one. Funny to read about Ferguson's claim that his players were too tired.

- Roger Federer overcame his slump of late and beat Rafael Nadal in the final of the Hamburg Masters. I was starting to get worried about how the recent defeats had affected Federer's confidence but seems there was nothing to be worried about. Obviously the clay season is still not the best time of the year for him but this win will do some good.