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• The Jazz must've been distracted by...something during their Game 2 loss to the Lakers. In the East, the Magic laid some sort of smackdown on the Hawks in a 43-point win.
• The Suns are planning on wearing their half-Spanish jerseys tonight in honor of Cinco De Mayo and in order to pander to demands that the team make a statement regarding the state's passing of bill SB 1070. That sound you hear is Mike Bacsik scoffing and joining a Minutemen group.
• Friend of the site Alex Belth is quite excited, with reason, for Harper's Magazine's recent posting of Bud Shrake's legendary "In the Land of the Permanent Wave."
• Slate's Dave McKenna has a thorough take-down of the whole "Sure, the Skins suck, but Snyder knows how to run a business" idea. Unfortunately, it just provides fodder for the NFC East's three other obnoxious fan bases.
• In other "Fuggin' Redskins News," the organization threatened to fire a cheerleader who was approached to do an on-air reunion with her Marine husband on DC's ABC affiliate. She eventually did have her on-air reunion. On NBC. The network that happens to be the team's broadcasting partner.
• Ernie Harwell, legendary Tigers broadcaster passed away last night just as Verlander was turning things around.
***** Good mornin'. It's bagel day, the spreads are gratis.
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