Headlines for June, 2008

The NBA: Now With 30% Less Euros

With the NBA Draft occuring tonight, here are some last minute thoughts and questions on what’s going on: What are the Blazers going to do with all them picks? Really, the Blazers just went out and brought the 27th pick yesterday from the Hornets? Sidenote:  What the hell is with the Hornets being so cheap?  They now have no picks this draft, and [read more...]

Steve Nash, Baron Davis, and Jason Kidd in “The Showdown In Chinatown”.

Alternative title:  Baron Davis has surpassed Gilbert Arenas as the most likeable, light-hearted (goofy) NBA player. You may have read about this charity, free to the public, soccer event Steve Nash held today at Stanton Field in Sara Roosevelt Park in Manhattan.  Labeled “The Showdown in Chinatown” (though Stanton and Forsyth is borderline Chinatown, and more LES nowadays than Chinatown, but [read more...]

The Big Lead Is Now The Big Boss?

Note to Shanoff:  The Big Lead is now the Boss. … so feel free to leave the blogging world, if you really mean what you wrote. Now to the more adult conversation:  Let’s start of with a link to Dave Lozo’s excellent breakdown of Will Leitch’s weird post the other day in which he took a few shots at Deadspin’s primary rival, [read more...]

Bissenleitch For The Final Time; or, So You’re Saying I Was Right?

Leitch on 4/30/08: We cannot imagine any reasonable human being watching that display and saying, “doggone it, that raving man has a point!” DJM on 5/1/08: I come not to bury Bissinger, nor to praise him. I come to say, however, that he did have a point… So here’s my hope: the next time somebody asks Leitch to defend blogs, he say something like [read more...]

Euro2008: The SemiFinals

Okay, we’ll start the day off with a quick update on the Euro2008 soccer tournament, as it reaches its final four.  Later on I’ll have a look at draft combine results of some of the NBA draft’s biggest names.  The quarterfinals went according to script; none of the previously undefeated group winners won their games.  Two of them lost outright; two ended in [read more...]

Know The Prospect: Anthony Randolph

Anthony Randolph: Anthony Randolph is listed as a 20-year old, 6’11, 220 lb SF/PF from LSU. Should the Knicks add a third Randolph to their front court, alongside Zach Randolph and Randolph Morris? Right off the bat: he’s a stringbean. He averaged 15.6 ppg, 8.5 rpg, and 1.2 apg last year at LSU. He also had an impressive 1.1 spg and 2.3 [read more...]

Euro2008 Tournament Update

Another exciting day in the Euro2008 Tourney. Just to get you caught up: this is the biggest soccer tournament in the world outside of the World Cup. The Euro happens every four years, right at the halfway point between World Cups, and features 16 of Europe’s best teams, battling for the right to be called the third best soccer team [read more...]

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