NBA: Owners Want Salary Rollback to Include Existing Deals

Gilbert Arenas had no idea Washington Wizards management would sell him out this hard. In many private conversations it was agreed that the Washington Wizards attempt to pirate away the remainder of Gilbert Arenas’ contract was a sign that owners want to lower NBA player’s maximum salaries across the board. Well, here’s the proof: The NBA will put its marquee players on [read more...]

Friday Sports Notes: Gregg Williams Gets His Cheap Shot and “Warrior” On While ESPN’s Mike Golic Defends the Saints D-Coordinator; Kudos to 1st-Time NBA All-Stars

Gregg Williams wants his "warriors" to take out Peyton Manning out of Super Bowl XLIV.. Thursday on the Nashville, Tennessee radio show, 104.5, The Zone’s “Three Hour Lunch,” New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator, Gregg Williams said on the air waves aloud what is normally kept in the confines of the NFL locker room: “If you kill the head, the body’ll die.” After these [read more...]

NBA Preview, Fantasy League-Style

Tonight is the opening night for the 2009-2010 NBA season. Rather than write forever, going through a bunch of predictions, I’m going to do something much, much different. This is my first season playing in an NBA fantasy basketball league, so I’m going to give you my picks and let you pick them apart – or praise me for being [read more...]

Juan Williams Crashes OTL and President Obama’s Chicago Olympics Bid

ESPN’s Outside the Lines Wednesday show featured talk centered around President Barack Obama’s efforts to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. The show was hosted by former investigative reporter for the New York Daily News, now ESPN part-time show host, T.J. Quinn. The guest panelists were Chicago Tribune Olympics columnist Philip Hersch, Washington Post sports columnist, Michael Wilbon, and Fox News [read more...]

Plax; Memphis Punished - SEMO too; A Too Buff Byrd… 92 PED-Positive MLBers? Kincade-Vick…

Okori: You’vre read SOMM enough to know that I have defended the weightlifting angle and been blasted for doing so. You also can see that I can see when players do things they shouldn’t do with the bat (e.g. Ankiel - see the links in the below comment on the PED list). Byrd has muscled up along with many Rangers, [read more...]

Short Note: NCAA Nabs Memphis Hoops Program

Uh oh, this looks like one of those, head coach leaves one school for another and leaves trouble behind but nipping at his heels deals. The NCAA is alleging that new Kentucky head coach John Calipari left behind some serious trouble at Memphis: The allegations include “knowing fraudulence or misconduct” on an SAT exam by a player on the 2007-08 team. The [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...]

Cees Eke Out Game 2; Spurs Crush Mavs; Rubio Declares for NBA Draft

Don’t mess with Jesus even when Commisioner Gordon is in the house. - But if you’re looking for someone to blame, just look toward Cousin Vinny. Ray Allen, aka Jesus Shuttlesworth, played UConn basketball “OG” to his Huskies protege Ben “Commissioner” Gordon. While Gordon was dropping in buckets from every possible angle from the moment he stepped on the court, Allen [read more...]

NBA Playoffs: Post Game 1 Thoughts

Well folks, my Internet was down for some time Sunday and this morning (Time-Warner of Austin is just awful!) and will be again Tuesday (my doing, though). But since it’s up for now let me take advantage of that fact and quickly recap about the playoffs relative to my predictions. -I said Boston in five, right? Well, they can win in [read more...]

NBA Playoffs: First Round Predictions

Rather than carry on with team assessments I’ll just get straight to my NBA Playoff predictions. I’ll keep it very brief so you can tell why you feel a certain team will win and advance. SATURDAY’S GAMES Chicago - Boston: Even without KG Boston wins this one. The only player the Cees need to deal with is Derrick Rose. Yes Ben Gordon [read more...]

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