Now it’s a mighty long way down the dusty trail and the sun beats down on the cold steel rails.  And I look like a bum but I crawl like a snail, all the way from Memphis.  -Mott The Hoople

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  The Memphis Grizzlies get no respect.  No respect at all.  All they know is rejection.  Their yo-yo, it never comes back!  Sports Illustrated recently conducted a poll in which it asked 173 NBA players which team is least likely to win an NBA title in the next five years.   The Grizzlies came in third, receiving 15 percent of the votes.  No respect I tell ya.  I don’t get it.  This is a team having one of the most dramatic turnarounds of the season with the league’s third-youngest roster.  This is a team that stood up.  A team who would not take it anymore.  A team that stood up against the scum, the dogs, the filth, the shit.  Yes, sports fans, here is a team that stood up.       Read More »

Imma be on the next level.  Imma be rockin’ over that bass treble.  Imma be chillin with my mutha mutha crew.  Imma be makin all them deals you wanna do.  -Black Eyed Peas

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Say what you want about Kobe Bean Bryant, Lord knows I do.  But let’s, just for a minute, put our personal feelings aside.  Let’s, just for a minute, give the Mamba the unconditional respect he deserves.  Let’s, just for a minute, be like Fatboy Slim.  Let’s celebrate Kobe Bryant.  Let’s praise him like we should.          Read More »

Well all right, okay, I’ve been gone and away.  For too long, a mistake.  But right now, I feel awake.  I’m feeling like i’m back.  Just like I’m back.  -Fabolous

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Remember this guy?  Remember Jerry Stackhouse?  How could could you forget?  This guy was a guy who was a household name from the time he was a sophomore in high school.  This guy was a guy who led storied Oak Hill Academy to an undefeated season.  This guy was a guy who was the the heir apparent.  Or should I say Air apparent?  Jerry Stackhouse has a lifetime scoring average of 18.4 points per game and has made two trips to the All-Star Game in a 14-season career with four teams.  He had been looking for a new team since the summer and was finally given new life by the Milwaukee Bucks this January.  He has not let them down.          Read More »

Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those peepers?  Jeepers creepers, where’d you get those eyes?  Oh those weepers, how they hypnotize!  Where’d you get those eyes?  -Louis Armstrong

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  When Daric Barton arrived in Oakland along with Dan Haren as part of the Mark Mulder deal, he was your prototypical Money Ball type player.  He displayed a plate approach well beyond his years.  He established himself as an on-base fiend.  He maintained a textbook swing.  A beautiful swing.  A Will Clark swing.  It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing.  Even with that swing, Barton has still not been able to stay up with the big team for any meaningful amounts of at bats.  When he was given a chance, back in 2008, he struggled with a .226 batting average and a .327 OBP.  What gives?  Is it the shoes?  Nope.  Daric Barton was lost but now is found.  He was blind, but now he sees.        Read More »

You’ve probably already seen this.  I don’t care.  I like it.  I like the fact that across his head, Ron Artest got the word “defense” dyed in purple in Japanese, Hebrew, and Hindi.  Dennis Rodman’s hair was cool and all, but it lacked substance.  It lacked meaning.  Just dying his hair all willy-nilly like.  Ron Artest is making a statement.  In these days of slackers and malcontents, you have to respect a man taking a stand such as this.

Thanks (Ball Don’t Lie,  Stern Warning and Hoop Doctors)

Peace out homies.  Six two and even.

Cause you had a bad day.  You’re taking one down.  You sing a sad song just to turn it around.  -Daniel Powter

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  The Celtics won yesterday.  They didn’t win pretty, but they won nonetheless.  I say what Al Davis says.  I say, “Just win baby!”  The Celtics won baby yesterday, despite the lackluster statline of one Mr. Kevin Garnett.         Read More »

Good, better, best.  Never let it rest.  Until your good is better and your better is best.  -Tim Duncan

Public Service Announcement:   Ok, here we go!  Everybody here in the Big Apple is jibbering about LeBron.  Everybody here in the Big Apple is jabbering about LeBron.  Jibbering and jabbering.  Blubbering and blabbering.  All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter ’bout schmatte, schmatte, schmatte.  I can’t give it away on 7th Avenue.  Rolling Stones style.  Maybe the New York Knickerbockers should think about giving it away to Dwyane Wade.  Last night,  D-Wade scored 38 points and dished out 10 dimes.  Yowza!  That’s the sixth time in his career that Flash had that many points and that many assists in a game, all since 2006-07.  Sweet sassy molassy!  That’s the most such games for any NBA player over that span.  The most.  For any player.  That’s right.  More than your beloved Bron Bron.  One more than your beloved Bron Bron, but more just the same.  So there.

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies. Six two and Even!

Overture, curtains, lights.  This is it, the night of nights.  No more rehearsing and nursing a part.  We know every part by heart.  Overture, curtains, lights.  This is it, you’ll hit the heights.  And oh what heights we’ll hit.  On with the show this is it.  -Bugs Bunny

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  With the Oscars right around the corner, shhh, it’s around the corner.  Sorry, I digress.  With the Oscars right around the corner, I thought this would be a good opportunity to share some of my favorite athlete in movies moments.  So after the jump, sit back, relax, and enjoy as our favorite athletes hit the silver screen:        Read More »

Aiyyo, Bo knows this.  What?  And Bo knows that.  What?  But Bo don’t know jack, cause Bo can’t rap.  -Tribe Called Quest

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Oh, what A night for LeBron James.  A late December back in ‘63 night.  First, he knocks down 40 points in the Cavaliers’ 99-92 win against the Pistons.  Hooray LeBron James!  That’s the third time that he’s scored 40 or more points vs. Detroit in a regular-season game.  Big deal you say? Who cares you say? I say, that ties Shaq Daddy  for the most career 40-point games against the Pistons among active NBA players.  But, if that weren’t enough, he also pitched the 7th inning against Pirates  and was simply awesome.  Simply the best. Better than all the rest. He simply struck out the first two batters and got the third to pop up.  Down goes Walker!  Down goes Raynor!  Down goes Iwamura!  Is there nothing this LeBron James character cannot do?  Huh?  What?  That wat was Baltimore Oriloles’ Luis LeBron.  Oh, that’s very different.  Nevermind. 

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Rufus ain’t Brett Hart but Shawn Michaels don’t care:

Thanks (Dumb Fans)

Peace out homies.  Six two and even!