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Isiah Thomas' Secret Genius
While digging through the breathtaking True Hoop coverage, and after watching Jay Bilas look flabbergasted on "SportsCenter" this morning, we are pleased to report that one of the top stories the day after the NBA Draft is a familiar one: Isiah Thomas is an idiot!...
No Draft Dodgers Around Here
One thing anyone watching the NBA Draft tonight should be ready for? Many extreme closeups of Adam Morrison's mustache, inexplicably the centerpiece of NBA Live '07's advertising campaign. You've all been warned....
The Commenters Have The Means Of Production!
As anyone who has, oh, ever come to this site knows, the best work here can not be found in our random scribblings but in the comments. We continue to be proud to have the best commenters on the Interweb, and they even successfully fought off the pillaging hordes of 13-year-olds after that whole T...
Leftovers: Smell The Glove
• Gustavo Chacin's hairless cologne has now gone mainstream. [Fan 590] • The NBA is no longer with leather. [NBA.com] • This has nothing to do with sports, but when Axl Rose bites someone, we're going to mention it. It's who we are. [The Hater Nation] • Wintrop's coach heading to College of Charlest...
Louis Gossett Jr., Hoops Savior
So at Siena University College, there's a basketball player who's trying to be let out of his scholarship so he can transfer; if the University doesn't let him out, he'll have to pay his own tuition for the first year, wherever he goes. The player, Kojo Mensah, is running out of options and time, so...
Darko, Way Back When
As we prepare for the NBA Draft tonight, we encourage you to keep in mind that, well, nobody knows anything. Need proof? This pre-2003 draft video looking at the "unlimited potential" of Darko Milicic....
Championship Parades Are No Fun
We've always wondered what it would be like to go to a championship parade for one of our favorite teams, but every time we get excited about the notion, the bastards go and, say, lose eight games in a row and ruin it for us. But still. We imagine it Albert Pujols riding by in a float, throwing us c...
Blogdome: Dancing Penn State Kid
• All Penn State fans dance like this, you know. [The Blog That Yost Built] • Time for a thorough evaluation of baseball's managers. [Naughty Baseball] • This is, without question, our new favorite site. [Albert Pujols Club] • Vote Uggla! [Gheorghe: The Blog] • The fun new showdown thing on Armchair...
You Should Probably Just Be Visiting TrueHoop Today
We'll have more NBA Draft preview stuff later today, but until then, we happily show off this photo from The Realests, which we can guarantee you showed up on the dorm wall of some happy Washington Jesuit....
Fumbling Away Life's Savings
In a different life than this one, we covered the financial services industry; it was slightly more interesting than it sounds, but not much. We once wrote a story about former Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad and how he was starting a financial advisory business for athletes, who often are handed large...
A Sunshine Reunion With History Ignored
As all of Boston celebrates the return of Pedro Martinez tonight, Seth Mnookin, whose upcoming book about the Red Sox tells all these stories from the inside out, reminds everyone that just because everyone's all lovey-dovey now doesn't mean that the truth is the way everyone would like it to be....
Hirshey: France Is Dead, Long Live France!
Admit it: After weeks of watching the Beckhams , Ballacks , Figos and Tonis and the rest of the preening World Cup showponies parade their smoldering good looks and luxuriant manes around the field after a match, didn't it feel good yesterday to see a couple of ancient chrome domes like Zidane and B...
Nothing But Good Thoughts For Gammons
We join the rest of the sports world in sending every possible good vibe in the direction of Peter Gammons, who is in intensive care after suffering a brain aneurysm. Gammons was found slumped over in his car on Cape Cod and, after having surgery last night, is expected to be in that intensive care ...
What We're All About Here
Since apparently there's some new traffic coming here today, from perhaps the least likely of sources, we felt it important to introduce newcomers with a little glimpse of what we're all about. And that, friends, is, of course, the great Carl Monday. We're the guy at the computer. Really. That's us....
Hey, Kids, Come Out To The Park!
We encourage all kids in the Philadelphia area to get their tickets now for August 20 at Citizens Bank Park, for a very special Phillies promotion for a Sunday afternoon game against the Nationals: It's The Brett Myers Back-To-School Pack!...
Last Post On Mariotti/Guillen, Honest
OK, we promise: Last Ozzie Guillen-Jay Mariotti related post of the week, unless one of them ends up being caught drunk on camera, forcing us all to become dirty voyeurs....
Leftovers: Losing Isiah?
• Isiah Thomas has one year to turn the Knicks around. What could possibly go wrong? [New York Post] • You don't think the NBA listens? Look, they're putting up ads for referees? [NBA.com] • The Weekly Standard takes on soccer. You can probably guess what happened next. [The Weekly Standard] • Hones...
Death On The Rugby Field
So imagine if during a baseball brawl, instead of the usual hijinks of bench-clearing brawls and pretend lemme-at-'em pretense, things got so out of hand that one player actually killed another player. Seems crazy for baseball, but in rugby, apparently, anything goes....
Stage Diving, NASCAR Style
If we were bigger NASCAR fans, we would have certainly known about this earlier — since it happened about a month ago — but we're not, so we needed We Are The Postmen to point it out to us....
Blogdome: Smell The Excitement
• Daytona 500 cologne ... just what you'd think it is. [Copyranter] • Taking sports site away from Kentucky public employees, that's just being cruel. [The Kentucky Democrat] • More on Mariotti-gate. [Chicago Sports Review] • What happens when someone from high school outpaces you in the sports worl...