NBA Playoff Thoughts: Hornets Quit; Heat in Trouble; Can the Rockets Close? Kudos to Vinnie D. - Boo to Vinnie D.

By halftime the score was 61-29. By midway through the third quarter the game was effectively over; the New Orleans Hornets were done. What happened to New Orleans?  They quit. Before halftime of Game number four of a round one playoff game played at home, they quit. Hornets owners George Shinn and Gary Chouest should quietly fine every player who took the floor [read more...]

NBA Playoff, NFL Draft Thoughts

How do you not foul John Salmons and allow him to pass to “The Commissioner”?…. “We wanted it more. Before the second overtime I said, ‘let’s stop playin’ and win this thing,’” Gordon said after the game. Gordon’s hyperbolic statement aside, how could you not foul Salmons at the end of the first overtime? And then, how you could you not be [read more...]

Meet Lenny Dykstra: Racist, Sexist, and Still Thinking He’s a Jock; Doc-Kennedy

( I am working feverishly trying to get my brackets together, so I do not, at present, have time to expound on what I’m about to report. Also Friday morning I’ll be taping on Dave Zirin’s Edge of Sports Radio Show on Sirius Satellite (usually I guest at the beginning of each month to talk about the previous month’s most [read more...]

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