The Roundup: Sonics Not Quite Gone … Yet
Baseball, College Football, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NHL, Pop Culture April 15th. 2008, 8:02am
When we receive no cool links to photos, and we’re too lazy to poke around for new ones, we’ll fall back on old favorites, like Jessica Biel. And we still haven’t seen the movie where she gets down to this outfit, but it’s on our to-do list … new-look Hot Clicks has an alternative-ending video of Kobe’s car-leaping stunt … ESPN’s ratings for the Masters were massive, so expect the WWL to start covering Golf more … one of the Wayans brothers is apparently dating either Winkie or Blinkie, the twins who were in The Basketball Diaries (and also were in a show called Sweet Valley High, says the female reader who sent in this link) …
Howard Schultz, the man who sold away the Sonics, now plans to sue in an effort to keep the team in Seattle. (Seattle Times)
Sean Avery’s such a douche, he got his own rule. (Ranger Pundit)
Norman Chad on the new $550 bathing suit. (Washington Post)
Somehow, the Florida Gators accidentally destroyed the 2006 National Championship crystal football. (Florida Today)
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on at The Smoking Gun, and how it gets all those outstanding documents. (NYT)
Ginia Bellafante is one of our favorite non-sports writers in newspapers: “The former football and baseball player Deion Sanders is blessed with a charm that leaks through the armor of his arrogance.” (NYT)
Depressing: The best written magazine in the country tackles The Hills. (New Yorker)
Apparently, Tommy Heinson is the biggest homer of all the NBA announcers. (Can’t Stop the Bleeding)
Drunken mess Scott Spiezio is let go by the Braves. (Deadspin)
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April 15th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Not to be “that guy”, but the NYT link about TSG is broken.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Heinsohn is drunk on scotch for 75% of the games. When he does a game, by the 3rd quarter he is openly yelling at the refs because he thinks they’re screwing the C’s (even though this is not always the truth). He also still gives out “Tommy Points.” He first came out with those a few years ago when they were bad, and basically they are hustle points. It is almost as bad as Scooter for Fox baseball. Either way, he is pretty bad as an announcer. I think people complaiend about him because for a few games this year Donny Marshall was the analyst for Celtics broadcasts.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:34 am
*Fixed
April 15th, 2008 at 8:37 am
On the plus side, Spezio has more time to bang his stripper looking wife.
How about a Happy 18th Birthday shoutout to Emma Watson, the precocious little minx from the Harry Potter movies? She’s going to be a fetching little witch by the time they’re finished filming those movies.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Sanchez, by the last movie, it’ll end up being like the SNL Lohan sketch.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Should be fixed, thanks, Who Dey.
Got to finish sorting through the emails about the commenter draft, hopefully will have an update around noon or 1
April 15th, 2008 at 8:43 am
TBL, I must say I’m very disappointed that you dropped a bomb like the Commenter Draft on us so late in the day after us East Coasters had already gone from work.
/yes, I’m just bitter because I was too late to get my team
April 15th, 2008 at 8:47 am
some asshole scheduled a 745 meeting and he didn’t even bring bagels or donuts.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:51 am
I’d like to give her a Hungarian backpack.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Bear, missing the NFL Commenter draft is gonna F your Commenter Tourney seed.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:56 am
When you said Wayans brother I was picturing Marlon or Shawn…not Keenen Ivory…
April 15th, 2008 at 8:57 am
F the NFL commenter draft and F the Commenter Tourney
Any Raptor fans on here?
April 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am
you can fuck the commenter tourney all you want, BUT I WONT STAND HERE AND LET YOU BADMOUTH ANY TYPE OF DRAFT…
April 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am
TBL said 64 was too many for the commenter draft. Are we going to do it with 32?
April 15th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Yeah, midwesternerns who leave work at 4:59 to go hit balls at the driving range are also upset about the timing of the commentor draft post.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:08 am
hey, i got in. i really could care less what team i got.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I picked Darren McFadden 3 times for 4 different teams. Look at me, I’m Jerry Jones!
April 15th, 2008 at 9:12 am
wait wait wait…ESPN is going to start covering golf more? didn’t they just drop almost all golf coverage a year or two ago? and come on, of course the masters is going to get massive ratings.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:16 am
who is the #1 seed? irish?
April 15th, 2008 at 9:49 am
@neo- i will never win a popularity contest on here. People keep asking TBL about the commenter tournament like a bunch of teenage girls. I personally could care less about the seedings or the tournament.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Just saw the Avery incident last night. That might have been the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen in an NHL game. Ever.
This guy was nailing Elisha Cuthbert? Really?
April 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
If Schultz keeps the Sonics in Seattle, I’m pouring my life savings into Starbucks stock.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Whoever gets the Broncos in the draft better not fuck things up because I’m pretty sure that they couldn’t do worse then Shanahan, et al. How many will actually take the draft seriously as opposed to tanking for fun, because they hate the team they represent, or they stop caring halfway through?
April 15th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Who ever gets the lions better pick Malcolm Kelly.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
What avery did was (up until yesterday) legal. If avery’s on your team you love him, if he isn’t, well then that sucks. To the NHL people who say he is destroying the integrity of the game blah blah blah. bottom line, this guy will do whatever it takes to win a game and I will take a guy like that on my team anyday. The second he starts flopping like that bitch, i mean prodigy child Crosby and throwing dirty hit after hit then we will have a problem.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
You had me up until you called Crosby a bitch.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Crosby – Bitch. the league doesn’t need divers, let alone its best players pulling the crap he pulls. referees are intimidated because everytime he falls down they are supposed to call something because the league says so or 18,000 fans are screaming for it
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9UpLXqI0qhc