I love how the NHL let's the Stanley Cup go all over the place. If they have to smooth out a dent here and there, so be it. Other trophies sit in glass cases. The Cup goes all over the world. That's awesome.
Paul Pierce is a drama queen. Drama queens do not deserve to win NBA championships. They deserve to limp off the court as losers.
ESPN's Bill Simmons addresses some "myths" about the Celtic-Laker rivalry:
Myth: The 1962 Lakers were a wide-open 15-footer from toppling Bill Russell's Celtics. Truth: You know who took the shot? Frank Selvy. (Who? Exactly.) Should Selvy be deciding your season when you have West and Baylor? I say no. Stupid teams shouldn't win titles.
Who? An ESPN writer has to ask who Frank Selvy was? I can answer his question. Frank Selvy was a two-time NBA All-Star and the most prolific single-game scorer in NCAA basketball history. Somehow, I don't think a lot of coaches would hate to have their last shot come down to an open 15-footer to be taken by a guy who once scored 100 points in a college game.
You've heard people bitch about how Jerry West supposedly steered Memphis toward trading Pau Gasol to the Lakers, right? How sweet it is that the Lakers play the Celtics in the finals? Out of all the fans who have something to bitch about, the Celtics fans are least and last. The Lakers reportedly offered Lamar Odom, Andrew Bynum, and a draft pick for Kevin Garnett, but Kevin Mchale has openly admitted that he would never want to make a deal that improves the Lakers (remember when he let Tom Gugliotta go to Phoenix for free rather than trade him to L.A. for Eddie Jones and Elden Campbell?), so instead, he sent Garnett to his old teammate Danny Ainge for Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Sebastian Telfair and Theo Ratliff. Most lopsided trade in the NBA in decades. Boston went from 24-58 to 66-16, and Minnesota dropped from 32-50 to 22-60. By the way, Memphis went from 22-60 last season to, uh, 22-60 this season.
Ty Lawson started acting like an NBA player a couple of weeks too soon. These guys need to learn to lay of the drinking, or the coking, or whatever you like to do, until after you sign the contract with the guaranteed money.
Sometimes, when you knock on a door in the middle of the night, and there is no answer, it means the coast is clear. Free stuff for the taking. Other times, it means that there is a big huge NFL player like Noah Herron in his bedroom wondering who in the hell is knocking on his door in the middle of the night. And he has a bedpost with which to beat your ass into next Friday.
So there's this story about how, to keep the roads unclogged, the Freeway Service Patrol will just give you a gallon of gas for free if you run out on the freeway. Sierra Hart Towing, which monitors Sacramento's freeways, said some people purposefully run out of gas just to get a free gallon. The story says that when truck drivers suspect that they've encountered a mooch, they sometimes offer to tow them to the nearest gas station for free. Few take up the offer. "A lot of them just get in their car and drive away." WTF? You can nip this trouble in the bud by making them turn the ignition key. If they are out of gas, they can't get in their car and drive away, can they? If they aren't out of gas, that should be their only option.
Some nakked anti-fur protesters are really cute. Others make you want to just throw them in the shower.
The last confirmed sighting of a Caribbean monk seal was in 1952 between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The seals were first classified as endangered in 1967. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service confirmed Friday that the species is extinct.
When I saw this ad over the Memorial Day weekend, I knew the end was in sight: real estate developers offering housing deals that include a "Buy one, get one free!" home. But with a lot of developers dropping their prices by hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps tossing in an extra $400K rental property isn't such a strange incentive after all.
Some homeless dude swindled 13 women by posing as a millionaire. One of the women lost $100,000 to the guy. What I want to know is: once the guy scammed someone out of $100,000, why in the world was he still homeless. Get an apartment, dude. You have the money.
Behold, a defendant on whose ass we really should get medieval. Robert A. Williams did not kill his victim, but he deserves to die, and it should not be a painless death. Or a fast one. I vote for 19 hours of agony, followed by a flatline.
Some pastors are calling for a ban on Sunday sports. "The anxiety of 'Do I go to church or do I take my kid to the soccer game?' is a weekly ordeal," said [Donald]Mossa, a pastor at the Presbyterian Church of Whippany. "It's letting the team down versus letting God down." God appears to have gotten over such other slights as murder, rape, terrorism and war. I think He'll get over the slight of someone taking their kid to his soccer game on Sunday. Besides, the Sabbath is on Saturday. There is no commandment calling for church on Sundays.
Finally, did you ever wonder what the look would be on the face of a baby who just found out his mom had tried to abort him? Well, wonder no more. Just double-click this crazy article. Yeah, that's about how my face would look, too.
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