Anyway, in his new "weekly sports blog" — we are not sure if something comes out weekly, it can be called a "blog" — Christie claims to be shocked, SHOCKED! that something as pure as the NBA could be shady.

Well, now we know why (if these allegations are true). It’s hard enough that you are facing the defending champs, hall of fame players and coaches, but you are also playing 5 on 8 (come on!). This is really disheartening. You work hard, play hard and it’s all bull. But, it’s what you see and the consumer believes it. Whoever “they” say are the “champs” are the “champs” (deserving or not). “They” are controlling the whole thing. What really makes me mad in the turn of events since then is the fact that these events have turned into what I consider a black balling of myself in the NBA!!

Christie then goes on to ramble about how no one in the NBA will hire him because of his wife. Whether that's true or not, uh, just the fact that the question is being asked would seem to be a problem, yes?

The World Of Doug Christie [MVN]

But plenty other people are watching it, or at least enough that Jackie Christie, on her official Web site, has posted a list of "haters," presumably those who have not shown her the respect she deserves. The list includes our friends at SLAM Online, Sports Pickle, The Brushback and ... uh ... Bryant Gumbel.

As you would probably suspect, we are disappointed not to have yet been included on the Haters List; perhaps we are omitted because of our dogged insistence on hating the game rather than the player. Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to attempt to make Jackie Christie's Haters Club.

Ms. Christie, we have not watched your show, not because we are busy — though we are — and not because we are some sort of pseudo-wannabe-intellectual snot — though we are that as well. We have not watched your show because we think it's the type of program that is leading to the downfall of America; in fact, we think it's very likely that you support the terrorists. In fact, we are not yet convinced that you are not, in fact, a terrorist yourself; we have never seen you and Ayman al-Zawahiri together in the same room. We think you hate America, Jackie Christie, and we also believe it's possible that you may have had something to do with the death of Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King and Morton Downey Jr. This is why we do not watch your show; because we think you are a member of Al Queda.

All right then. (Fingers crossed!)

The Haters' Club [JackieChristie.com]
Review: The Christies, Episodes Four And Five [SLAM Online]

We love Cuban because he runs the Mavs the way that any of us would run a team; loudly, emotionally and with little perspective. His description of the first day of practice is like a teenager girl writing about her first date with Bobby; everything's great, everything's wonderful, everyone's tooting sunshine. When the Mavs inevitably disappoint this year, it will be just as much fun to read that teenage girl write about how she'll die alone and how that Maloof girl is a total slut-bag.

It's Mavs Time! [Blog Maverick]