What's Cooler Than Being Cool?..ICE COLD!

With the recent cold snap that brought the coldest weather in six years to Alabama, it got me thinking about who are some of the coldest teams/individuals in sports right now.

Besides the Alabama Basketball team, which will get a post all its own later, here are the top three that I came up with:

• Andruw Jones. Until Thursday, Jones was a member of the Dodgers. Then, he made the quickest $22.1 million in the country when Los Angeles released him, but how could you blame them. In 75 games last season, Jones hit an awful .158 with 3 HRs and 14 RBIs. In 1996,Jones' rookie season when he only played in 31 games, he had 5 HRs and 13 RBIs. 2008 was also Jones' first year in the past 12 to have an on-base percentage below .300, bottoming out at .256.


• The Oklahoma City Thunder. First off, it was a great idea to move the Supersonics out of Seattle. Congrats to the NBA for allowing this to happen in the first place. Even more praise for giving them the horrid colors of blue, orange, and gold. And finally, here comes the season. Despite back-to-back wins over Utah and Detroit, the Thunder are an NBA worst 8-33, the only team under a .200 win percentage (.195). Sure, the Clippers are currently on a 12-game losing streak and the Thunder are 5-5 in their last ten, but it takes a special kind of team to miss seven dunks in one game.


• New Jersey Institute of Technology basketball. All teams go through losing streaks and terrible seasons, but the Highlanders have taken that idea to a whole new level. This team went 5-24 in the 2006-07 season, losing their final four games of the season. Last year, NJIT didn't win a single game, going 0-29 and losing by an average of 20.7 points per game. So far this season, they are 0-18. That puts the current losing streak at 51 straight games. Sure, the Highlanders are in the middle of reclassifying from Division-II to Division-I, but more than half way into year two, NJIT has yet to notch their first win as a Division-I program.