Joakim Noah

How badly does the CBS crew want to screw (not the, oh he was screwed out of a good play but the sexual sense of screwing) Joakim Noah? Did anyone but me wonder how many times he was pushing off and not get a call against him? I hate the SEC

Kevin Willis..... Really???

The Dallas Mavericks will bring in 44-year-old center Kevin Willis for a workout Thursday. The Mavs are trying to see if the 20-year vet is a good fit for their open roster spot. This comes a week after both the Lakers and Mavericks considered giving Scottie Pippen a workout for open roster spots. Seriously??? The man on the right in the photograph is Jerry Dupree also known as "The Assassin". Mark Cuban seems like the perfect candidate to let some AND 1 player try out for that roster spot. Can you honestly say that Kevin Willis might be a better player than Jerry Dupree? Or hold an open audition for Dallas hoops players to try out for a Mavs playoff roster spot. Do something better than Kevin Willis, please.

24 >23??!!

I am not a huge NBA fan but follow it as best as I can. How could I ignore an article that featured a Chicago great and the greatest of all time.

I have a Chicago bias, yes but is Kobe better than Michael Jordan?? When I first read Like Mike, Only Better by Jemele Hill, I was furious and still can't believe that someone would put Kobe on a platform on a platform higher than Jordan. Would this topic even come up if Kobe did not score 50 points in 4 straight games?

I am no NBA expert but here a few thoughts. Points don't make someone the best basketball player, the best players are without a doubt the most transcendent player of the year. Has Kobe Bryant been that much better than other players in the league? There would be no talk of Dirk or Nash to be the MVP over Kobe, if Kobe was is better than MJ. Or does 2 + 2 = 5, in this instance.

Shaq seemed to help the Lakers win championships and I do remember Kobe going scoreless for three quarters in a playoff game a few years ago. MJ never choked and I can remember him having the big men such as Will Perdue, Bill Wennington, Luc Longley, and Bill Cartwright. Almost as good as Shaq

Don't give me that bullshit that MJ did not have any competition because there are more than enough players that were were great at the time of Jordan. 23 was that much better than every player because there was no comparison with what MJ did on the court. If Kobe is better than MJ; 1.) he could win without Shaq 2.) he should have won an MVP by now 3.) he would win more championships 4.) he would better set up his teammates for success (I know Jordan is an asshole but players seemed to play well when around him, don't include his time with the Wizards)

read the article and then we can discuss why this woman is wrong. If you think Kobe is better than MJ, you can blow yourself.


http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/070326

Cnnsi.com Headline...

Actual Link on SI's website: Pettitte resumes throwing; Wang hurt.



Come on, that's funny.

This is Why I'm Hot

"Top Ten Reasons The Kansas Jayhawks actually have a chance this year."

10. Less Giant White guys than usual.
9. Mario Chalmers is good. And a machine on the Dance floor. Pun intended.
8. Sasha Kaun is the new Greg Ostertag
7. Just dodged a serious bullet.
6. Oral Roberts Eliminated early.
5. Jay Bilas becoming a supporter now that Duke bias has been exposed.
4. Harry Potter look alike Kirk Hinrich Cheering in stands
3. Bill Self partying with College girls.
2. Diaper Dandys
1. Most of team avoiding jail time due to minimal contact with "Pac Man" Jones.

NBA-Bound

The Boston Celtics confirmed Sunday that the team had been fined $30,000 by the NBA for excessive contact with the family of Texas star freshman and likely lottery draft pick Kevin Durant. Danny Ainge was seen sitting next to Durant's mom during a recent Texas game and has been told that it was violating the "no contact except the absolute minimum" rule to contact players before they declare for the draft. This is a serious problem..............NOT! If Ainge was smart he would have had Paul Pierce sitting on the other side of the mom dressed in his celtics uniform and a celtics pennant blocking her view. This kid is phenomenal and Boston needs his game as it seems like a perfect match to go along with Pierce. Maybe I read too much Bill Simmons and have fallen in love with this man-child too early. But he's the only reason I watched games outside of the Big 10 this year. The two Kansas games and the A & M game and the OK St. game were unbelievable. This kid is ready for the NBA and I think no matter where he goes he'll be the rookie of the year.

Of course I'm hoping by some miraculous event that the Knicks get the #2 pick because they owe this years draft pick to the Bulls, though ESPN mock draft has the Bulls taking Roy Hibbert at either 13 or 14, which wouldn't be too bad. The worst part is if Atlanta doesn't get the 1st pick they'll have to give their draft pick to the Suns. Can you imagine Durant on that team... oh goodness. Either way, the mock draft also has Phoenix picking Al Horford which would mesh well in their system. Yikes.

Let's Get to a Real Sport...

Let's all admit this: the first round of the tournament was thoroughly disappointing. Even Duke losing wasn't as fun as usual, and there were a grand total of 2 upsets, both 6-11. Not even the "guaranteed" 5-12 upset, thanks to Illinois blowing it (not that I needed another reason to dislike them, but thanks for blowing one of my picks). Maybe there will actually be some games that give Kevin Harlan a chance to use the golden voice that he is so anxiously waiting to unleash. That said, let's move on.

Interesting commercial on the old television these days. It's for Chevrolet, meaning American cars, meaning they need to do something to stop getting dominated by better, more efficient, nicer cars made by every other country. So obviously something needs to be done to stop the decade-long run of Japanese auto domination. Can the marketing teams PLEASE save American car manufacturers?
Here's the solution: NASCAR + Dale Earnhardt, Jr. + TI (the hip-hop artist) at the infield of some speedway, most likely in the south. Take a watch:



Now really, I don't know who Chevy is trying to appeal to here. Is it the NASCAR crowd. Is it the urban crowd, are they trying to do a cross-over and mix the two? Either way, I just don't think that the NASCAR crowd is going to be pumped that Chevy is now hip enough to put TI in one of their videos. He is the King of the South and all, but I don't know if that is officially recognized by his redneck constituency. And I'm trying to imagine a convo between a NASCAR driver and a hip-hop artist. I mean, think of Tony Stewart and Ludacris sitting down for a little chit, little chat. Weird and odd. That's all I can say.

Ridiculous that I'm not posting about college basketball? Sure. But apparently Bill Simmons now is covering that, too. So why even bother?

A break from the madness for a little Tank

Terry "Tank" Johnson, defensive lineman, got sentenced to 120 days in prison today with a $2,500 fine for violating his 2005 probation. Tank was quoted with saying, "In retrospect, I should not have guns in my home."
Yes, Tank you should not have guns in your house...that are loaded and are easily accesible by your children. You don't need to a college education to understand that kids play with anything that is in front of them. Who fell off the moran tree hit, hit every branch on the way down, the tree fell on top of him, and had a branch imbeded into his skull?
I also enjoy how Jerry Angelo (the GM of the Chicago Bears) wanted to fire Tank faster than Lance Briggs wants to get off the Bears when he found out what Tank did. A day later with some conferencing with current players and Lovie, he decided that they were just going to suspend him. Mostly so Tank could play in the Super Bowl. What is the best is that Tank had no positive effect on the Super Bowl and the Bears got their asses handed to them.
So way to go Angelo, Lovie, Ted Phillips, and all other 'higher ups' and taking the high road....

Dicky V Effect

You know what I hate? The fact that Duke is a higher seed in the NCAA Tournament than they were in the ACC Tournament. In my opinion, which counts for very little apparently, Duke should have been nothing more than a 10 seed. 6 seed? C'mon. That is a bunch of bullpooey. I am sure that Dicky V was in there "doing some laundry" if you know what I mean. Did I mention that I hate Duke almost as much as I hate seeing a fat girls midsection. Duke gets into the tourny this year simply because the NCAA and Dicky V love them. They should be slugging it out with the Purple Pussies in the NIT!

Real Men of Genius

With the ongoing bracketology on ESPN starting in November, it becomes clear on the day of Selection Sunday who the teams were that squeaked in and who was given the shaft. Here's who I heard the most: Drexel, Syracuse, and FSU, with K-State a little bit. Drexel was the worst however. BUT, if you look at the NIT bracket, NONE, let me repeat NONE of those teams are seeded number 1. STOP making a big deal about snubs if they aren't even seeded number one in the LOSER'S bracket. Apparently Miss St, WV, Air Force, and Clemson should be the ones complaining. ON TOP OF THAT, Drexel was the most debated... and what do they do, THEY LOSE IN THE FIRST ROUND!!! You don't get respect and/or a gripe if you don't go out and prove that you belong there. What do the non-mid-majors do, they win. 'Cuse, FSU, Michigan, NC St., WV, K-St. they win. So stop talking about how mid-majors are at the same level as the big conference schools. They just aren't.