For all the awesome product the NBA has churned out over the past two years, one of the larger gripes has been the lack of blockbuster trades. Bill Simmons rewarded himself a cookie when he deemed the league the No Balls Association vis a vis these lack of trades. Also, because he was a bit [...]
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Whatchu Starin’ At, Abyss?
Hey gang, it’s Friday of that week in between the football playoffs and the Super Bowl, and you know what that means: There’s very little in the sporting world to care about!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! The NBA announced their All Star team reserves this week, which is really only significant because Josh Smith was snubbed and Gerald [...]
Weak Side Late Assignment: The South Done Rose
Mickey: If you look around the sports landscape these here days, you have no choice but to come to one conclusion: the South is much better at the sports that matter than any other region. Disclaimer: We are, of course, referring to the South in the most 21st Century War of Northern Aggression ways. Central [...]
Captain Jax Will Get You High Tonight
Outstanding news from the warfront: Stephen Jackson is Charlotte-bound in a deal that ships Raja Bell and Vlad Rad to Oakland. Everyone’s gonna use words like “embattled” and “disgruntled” when they describe Jax because he’s been looking for a trade for a while. It was on my radar, but I didn’t pay it much mind [...]
Pink Slippage: The Slope Is Slippery
All things considered, I tend to live in the future past. That is to say that when something happens, I tend to think in very David-Sedarisian terms of, “Wow, this is gonna make a great analogy for something else that will happen in the indefinable future.” And so it came to pass that I found [...]
This Week on the Internets (3 August 2009)
You’ll notice that it seems like half our staff is on vacation this week; I, myself, am sitting at the beach but feel compelled to send a few links during a relatively quiet week in sports. August slows much of the world down a bit, at least for the first two weeks or so. Don’t [...]
One More Before I Slip Away
In two days I’ll be flying back east for a week of reading, eating and sleeping on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It’s my first real vacation in quite some time, as this time last year was spent flying to the OBX, buying Mickey’s Accord, and driving it back across the country. It was [...]
Smokey’s Potpourri
The suspenders are on. Let’s King Thing this bitch up. -Over the past few years there’s been an influx of Bills fans in my social stratosphere. These are a curious lot; they tend to be realists and pessimists. They’ve mastered the art of the shrug and eye roll, which is why they’re the perfect fans [...]
Mile Markers
The American world of baseball descended upon the Gateway to the West this week. There was carousing and merriment. There were displays of power, of cunning. And in the end, as always, the AL defeated the National League. Bringing us these events employed a small army of analysts, interviewers, and announcers, and yet, it was [...]
Assassins to Watch, Bred in the Best City in the South
The NBA’s Summer League got off to its inoncuous start this past week. Not usually terribly fan-friendly for most followers of the League — or at least not a very meaningful exercise in fandom — this year has proven to be no exception, as only 21 of the 30 NBA franchises have actually fielded a [...]
