The Roundup: Candace’s Dunk, Carlin’s Death
College Basketball, College Football, Golf, NBA, Other College Sports, Tennis, Video, Women's Sports June 23rd. 2008, 8:00am
To all our new readers from the Los Angeles area, welcome. Here’s some classic Scarlett to open your morning … journalist interview coming around lunchtime … gas stations eliminating the use of cards and demanding cash … we quit American Airlines, and now that US Airways is charging for soft drinks and bottled water, F them, too … and here come the hate groups! … sorry to get all listy but Black Sabbath? … props to Steve Sanders for getting through this … who is Nadia Bjorlin and why aren’t we watching whatever she’s in? …
Throw it down Candace Parker, throw it down.
Iconic comic George Carlin dies of heart failure, and here’s his classic baseball vs. football bit. (Obit, More Handy Than Capped)
Bloggers take a road trip to Omaha for the College World Series. (Bert Flex)
Boozy summer in Tennessee continues: First VY at that bar and now Jevon Kearse is nabbed for DUI. (Tennessean)
By far the best piece on the NBA draft you’ll read. Brilliant mix of facts, rumors, and humor. (Star Ledger)
“Let’s cut out this nonsense about him winning it on one leg.” (Capelle on Golf)
Claim: The BCS has cost college athletics $4.3 billion. (Coaches Hot Seat Blog)
Challenging Bissinger. (Burnt Orange Sports)
The NABC is pushing to curtail this recruiting 8th graders business. (Rush the Court)
Consensus: Nadal seems to be poised to break Federer’s 5-year stranglehold on Wimbledon. (NYT)
Terrific read on the mother whose son killed Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy. (Washington Post)
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June 23rd, 2008 at 8:08 am
I’ll drop a FUCK and a COCKSUCKER for one of the best comics of all time.
God bless Scarlett…
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
What a shame about Carlin. Brilliant man: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.”
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:16 am
hadn’t heard that one, WUF
funny stuff
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
Interesting LA Times read.
So this is why the AM Roundup pics generally suck (not today though!). Our boy, The Big, is growing up and he’s going to start making us refer to him as Mr. Lead. I remember when he was this big.
/pinches cheek
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 am
Sorry, but Sixpence None the Richer is NOT a metal band.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:29 am
Careful, or he might become “The Big Head”.
Puns at 8:30 on a Monday are always appreciated, right?
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:30 am
the WNBA dunk stories always crack me up. i really think it would be better PR if they didn’t celebrate the dunks. they need to just act like it’s another day at the office. and do they do dance like it’s Soul Train after every game, or was that just because CP dunked the ball?
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 am
Which black comedian am I?
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 am
Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 am
when i go to With Leather, it hasn’t updated any stories in 5 days. but if i go from there from my other computer, it is up to date. can anyone maybe explain this?
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
@benji - Deadspin did the same thing to me last Sunday. It didn’t update once from my home PC, but then I got to work Monday and it had been running smoothly all day.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 am
TBL getting some California Love. Funny it was about a story on your boy Kobe.
A good friend of mine smoked with The Freak at UF.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 am
when i go to With Leather, it hasn’t updated any stories in 5 days. but if i go from there from my other computer, it is up to date. can anyone maybe explain this?
You’re cheating on me? We’re done.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
Um, With Leather blows?
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
I’m with Mike on that one.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 am
TBL, you don’t mean that. we’re just friends. actually, i just like to see the biscuits in the morning.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:56 am
i meant more along the lines of the explaining the computer issues.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 am
Right. Like this past Friday: “It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy,” Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. “We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
Change!
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 am
Hope!
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:03 am
for some reason, that list of top heavy metal bands was blocked…but how the hell can you argue against Black Sabbath being no. 1 (if that’s your point)?
there was no metal before Sabbath, and still, nobody has vastly improved on it. is there a better metal riff than iron man? fuck no.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
Benji/CRM, it has to do with browser caching and how it interacts with the site. The very very simplistic view of it would be that the server has a timestamp of the last time each unique url was last updated. When you visit a url, your browser caches the contents and takes note of that timestamp, so the next time you visit, if that timestamp on the server hasn’t changed it loads the page from the local cache, not from the server. If you think this may have happened, in Firefox hit Ctrl + F5 and it will force a refresh from the server.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
Mike, Miz, etc: Political post coming later. Sharpen your knives.
Spencer: You could play me 5-10 songs and I could not tell you if any of them were Black Sabbath. But when I think Rock, I do not think Black Sabbath. I could not name of the guys in the band, and not even one of their songs.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
Spence:
1 BS, 2 Led, 3 AC/DC, 4 Van Halen, 5 Hendrix, 6 Metallica
I think you gotta throw AC/DC and Van Halen the fuck out of the top 10. I hate those two.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
@coop: you the man. Ctrl+F5 worked for IE as well. thanks.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
TBL find a way to crowbar a lebron kobe debate in the politics post to really get the hate flowing this morning
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
TBL…not even Iron Man? come on, even if you only know it from Beavis and Butthead, it’s iconic. you couldnt have named Ozzy Osbourne? they were the best.
Nick…Van Halen was the greatest band of the 80’s (Van Halen, not Van Hagar) but they weren’t metal, neither was ACDC. Hendrix? wtf? Metallica would be fine until they vaginasized in the early 90’s with that garbage Black Album. then again, i could give two shits less about metal anymore.
and Iron Maiden not being in the top 5 is beyond retarded. whoever made that list should have their fingers cut off.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
AC/DC, Van Halen, and Led Zeppelin are not heavy metal. Neither was Hendrix. I cna’t view the site to see the criteria or any other bands, but Black Sabbath and Metallica are a different genre from numbers 2 through 6 that Nick P. listed.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
There is no way Van Halen is ahead of Metallica. I would go:
1. Led
2. BS
3. Metallica
4. AC/DC
5. Hendrix - though I don’t really consider him to be “metal”
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
I haven’t listened to them in years (the vinyl is packed away in my garage…undoubtedly melting!), but the first three Sabbath albums were among the best of the heavy metal genre. Don’t talk shit about Sabbath!
“With Leather” is awful. I’ll drop by every couple weeks or so, only to remind myself how juvenile Ufford’s blog is.
And, I thought for certain the Steve Sanders link was going to take me to pictures of Nikki Ziering!
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
1. Sabbath
2. Iron Maiden
3. Judas Priest
4. Slayer
5. Metallica (before Black Album)
that’s a real list.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:17 am
Pantera needs to be a lot higher on any list.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:17 am
6. Bon Jovi
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
carlin was great, dare I say brilliant, he will be missed
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 am
and so you can quit asking: Obviously we’ll still do bikini photos, people.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 am
I’ve really never understood the need for bikini pics…yeah they’re excellent, but I can go anywhere on the internet and get them…and alot more of them.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Carlin died? Oh man. Not a good way to start this week. That guy brought it. He made too much sense. Example… biggest wastes of space on this earth? Golf courses and cemeteries. Too true.
“when i go to With Leather, it hasn’t updated any stories in 5 days. but if i go from there from my other computer, it is up to date. can anyone maybe explain this?”
Clear your cache.
Lists are silly and that one is dumb. How the hell is Aerosmith considered heavy metal? In the 70s they were a good rock band and in the 90s they were a pop band.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:32 am
great read by Dave D. Interesting that the Dallas Mavericks will only have 7 players under contract next year if Eddie Jones retires. Sucks that those 7 contracts add up to more than $80 million.
Dream Team starts practicing on Friday
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:33 am
anyone who can see the Metal list thingee…can you tell me where Megadeth is on there?
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 am
spencer - Where’s Jethro Tull on your list? Just kidding. I always thought it was amusing that this band once won a Grammy for Best Metal/Hard Rock performance. They subsequently took out an ad which said “the flute is a heavy metal instrument”.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 am
megadeath didn’t make the list. i’m not a metal guy, but Rush was at 14. was Rush heavy metal?
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:38 am
Tull is good shit.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:38 am
412…jethro tull, if im listing a top 50, would be on there, but towards the bottom. aqualung is one of the baddest-assed albums of all time and is a great representation of early metal along with Deep Purple.
should they have beaten Metallica’s And Justice For All in 1987? Absolutely…that album was garbage (metallica fans, just admit it) and they suck.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
I’m sure that Yahoo writer patted himself on the back for being ‘badass’ enough to include Meshuggah on that list (take that parents!), but leaving off Lamb of God shows a fatal misunderstanding of modern metal.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:40 am
eh, rush is on the cusp, id call them more progressive rock, tho. id have put King Crimson on there tho, to get a progressive tint to it.
megadeth didn’t make the list? bullshit, rust in peace is far better than anything metallica ever put out.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:40 am
I’m the biggest Led Zeppelin fan there is, but they aren’t heavy metal. Blues rock, maybe? Their stuff sounds “heavy metal-ish,” but if you listen to it the roots are truly more blues than anything else.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
The guy who made the list had a very liberal definition of heavy metal (Rush, Hendrix, Thin Lizzy), but he admitted as much in the beginning of the article. Not too much to complain about at the top of the list, except for Van Halen being too high and Megadeth missing completely.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
is there much of a scandinavian contingent on there? you cant talk about metal today without talking about bands like Children of Bodom and In Flames (unless you call whatever swill the record companies are calling metal, metal).
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
where was Iron Maiden on the list?
/fucking firewall
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
@atlanta: no doubt Zeppelin’s roots are blues, but when they came out heavy metal didn’t exist, and them along with Sabbath were intrical influences on every metal band since.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
@spence: Maiden was 10 (should’ve been 5 or 6 spots higher).
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
Isn’t Children of Bodom’s guitar player like 17? That manchild can flat-out play his balls off.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
He put all his scaninavian bands at the bottom of the list.
25. Meshuggah
24. Mercyful Fate
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
agreed.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
Re: the story about hate groups…I think it’s HIGH-LARIOUS that the leader of one of the white supremacist groups last name is “Black.”
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
@ATL: If Zepplin isn’t metal (and I agree, btw) then Jimmy, Aerosmith and Trowers sure as hell aren’t metal either
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
mercyful fate is one of the baddest bands of all time. Melissa and Don’t Break the Oath are stuff of legend.
August…he’s young, but not that young. regardless, the dude has chops for days.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Re: Rush
I can see their inclusion for their influential factor, but Dream Theater is much heavier.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:50 am
@August - agreed. Aerosmith??? Of course, they were more “metal” in the ’70s (although I still wouldn’t consider them metal then either), but the ’90s stuff they did was so poppy that it made many people forget about the ’70s.
Rush is kinda in their own category altogether. Not metal, but not rock either. I guess “prog rock” is the most fitting category.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Dream Theater is musical porn. i fuckin’ love that band, if only they ditched the chubby, french-canadian opera singer with eyebrows from hell and just played instrumentals all day.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 am
If Dream Theater ditched LaBrie how would I know when it’s OK to take a shit or make a sandwich during their albums?
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 am
ah, true story.
in all honesty, he’s probably one of the few singers who can technically hang with the musicians, so you can’t really hate on that, tho he does suck. i love how during their concerts he just leaves the stage, at least he realizes nobody gives a shit about the vocals.
fucking meeting time. arg, MONDAYS.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:31 am
Spence:
Have you tried Liquid Tension Experiment? Pretty good rock, no vocals, fun to listen to.
I didn’t see the list, but please tell me they had motorhead on there somewhere…
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
yea, ive got both their albums. pretty decent.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Hey TBL, I was late reading this. Nadia is on Days of Our Lives. She usually wears a lot of low cut dresses and lately has had a lot of sex scenes. Hope that makes you happy.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Carlin was awesome. One of the best ever.