The Roundup: Championship Morning Edition
Baseball, NBA, Politics, Soccer, Tennis April 8th. 2008, 8:03am
Wild Things after a wild night? Painfully lame, we know, but the Kansas game was incredible, and every male we know is certain of when and where he saw Wild Things for the first time. Denise Richards was the star, and of the many must-watch scenes, here are three to start your morning – Denise exiting the pool at swim practice, fighting with Neve Campbell, and washing a car. Nope, we can’t link to “that scene” … tracking the Olympic Flame in San Francisco should be fun … One Shining Moment, which was nice, but didn’t quite matchup our favorite of all-time, 1998 …
no games in the NHL or NBA, so we won’t have a Top Shelf or Ballin’ today … congrats to the winner of our NCAA pool – obviously, someone from Ohio – who nailed all Final Four teams and six of the Elite 8 teams – Please pick up the white courtesy phone sir, and drop us an email …
Taking a look at the sorry state of the MLS salaries. (Yankee Hooligan)
Dodgers fans with great seats complain that too many fans are seeking autographs, so new rules prevent that kind of fun at Dodgers Stadium. (LA Times)
The Washington Post won six pulitzers, and this one, to us, is perhaps the most fascinating. Here’s the actual story. (NPR)
Ouch – Billy Packer and Don Dick Cheney, separated at birth? (Lion in Oil)
Chris Kaman enjoys outrunning overweight Eddy Curry down the court. (Can’t Stop the Bleeding)
The latest in a long, long line of hot tennis players. (Hot Clicks)
Clearly, Dennis Johnson’s career is Hall of Fame worthy; but who in this year’s class do you boot? Oh. Vitale. (NY Post)
Yup, the Stanford women’s hoops team is easy to root for. (Tampa Tribune)
The Braves aren’t surprised by Scott Spiezio guilty plea, which somehow is a good thing? (AJC)
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April 8th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Also on the Hot Clicks link, D. Rose drops an “Oh Shit” bomb during the UCLA postgame press conference. Funny stuff.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:22 am
i believe you mean Dick Cheney and not Don Chaney.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:26 am
A soccer story? Booooooooooooooooooooo………………….
April 8th, 2008 at 8:27 am
That story about Dodger Stadium “policy” on autographs is just sad.
Every Dodger game I see on TV, no ones at the game anyway, let alone in the $$$ box seats.
Take a kid to minor league ballpark, maybe get lucky like I did in the early 70’s when an unknown catcher named Carlton Fisk signed my scorecard.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:42 am
17th place finish in the Tourney Pick ‘em. Golf clap to myself.
Tell me again why DJ deserves to be in the HOF? If he doesn’t play in Boston next to Bird, McHale, & co., do we know this guy’s name? He’s the Jim Rice of the basketball world.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:45 am
i guess more people are upset about DJ not being in the HOF after Joe Dumars was inducted.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:45 am
love me some Denise Richards
April 8th, 2008 at 8:46 am
didn’t DJ win a title in Seattle as well as playing and winning with the Celts?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:46 am
irish, i think she’s hot. but that picture looks like something you could make on mr. potato head.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Yeah he won a title with them. Still, assuming Joe Dumars doesn’t belong, then why dilute the HOF even more by letting a lesser player in?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
WHOOO OHIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this makes up for all tOSU’s losses, the browns not making the playoffs, and the tribe choking.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I’ll second benji’s sentiments. Denise’s face looks very weird in that photo. Almost tranny-like.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Meh…never been a fan of Denise Richards. Phenomenal body. But, like Jessica Simpson, very bad eyes. And, she was Mrs. Charlie Sheen.
Alona Bondarenko, on the other hand, is kind of snicky.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Packer always reminds me of Hesh.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:56 am
That Washington Post violin story was awesome–thanks for the link, TBL. More links like this would be great.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am
some of those later comments from the TBL live blog last night are absolutely hilarious. That was a great game last night and pretty fun to comment/talk shit at the same time
sportsgal + 100 for you
gonzo + 1 for the two thumbs
April 8th, 2008 at 8:58 am
I move that we replace the MMW threesome after a night at TGIFridays with the Wild Things threesome. I see that combo running the field.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Whoa, 537 comments last night? I left at halftime, and there were like 34. F you late arrivers.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am
i totally missed that, and reread it…HOLY CRAP.
im so disappointed that music has deteriorated so much that people don’t recognize JOSHUA FUCKING BELL the premeir violin virtuoso in the US. dear god, the guy was playing a $500k plus violin and some of the great classical repertoire and he goes completely unnoticed.
but if britney spears walks thru the same station, she’d probably be mobbed…excuse me while i go home and drink a bottle of scotch and listen to Paganini and Liszt all morning and cry to myself.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:13 am
You’re no better than the people that walked right by Bell!!
/kidding
April 8th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Scott Templeton wrote that story for the Post.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:14 am
@Spencer–in all seriousness, as I was reading that I was thinking “I’d like to think that I’d notice the genius happening before my eyes.” I wouldn’t recognize Joshua Bell, but I think I’d recognize the spectacular skill he was playing.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:19 am
I would hope to be able to recognize a guy that talented, I think I would have at least noticed and stopped. I took the wife to the Cleveland Orchestra not long ago. It was decent, a little boring, not our style, but still very cool.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:19 am
yea, i understand that most people have no idea what he looks like and all that (and that everyone wasn’t a music major) but im more pissed that he ISNT a celebrity.
there are few musicians with as much skill and who play with as much expression, yet id bet that 95% of americans have never heard of him, let alone the composers whos music he plays. yet, every fucking idiot thinks that what’s played in most media outlets is great…GAH, i just wanna fucking rip my ears off.
youre gonna pay $150 per ticket to see this guy play in a concert hall, yet a shitload of people see him play and dont even realize it. it’s just sad…
April 8th, 2008 at 9:22 am
coop…of all the shitty things about cleveland, the orchestra isn’t one of them. im sure it was pretty boring (symponies aren’t my thing either, if it’s ‘classical’ i prefer chamber music) but it’s one of the best groups in the world.
and one last thing before i stop talking about music…if youve ever heard a Stradivarius violin relatively close, even the most tone deaf person would be able to distinguish it from a regular violin. there’s a reason those things are half a mil.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:22 am
awesome link TBL…that made my morning.
now ill shut up about this.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:24 am
@TBL or anyone
I’m reading The Washington Post story which won the Pulitzer where the stud Bell plays his violin in NY like he was some street walker instead of the great he is. I am on page four of the article and damn if I haven’t had to look up ten words on dictionary.com to know what they meant. To qualify for a Pulitzer, does the person judging the article have to look so many words up before it qualifies? It’s a great article, don’t get me wrong. But I feel like a retard reading this.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:24 am
I read that article about the fiddle player last year and remember thinking that it sounds kinda elitist. Like it’s berating people for not recognizing a “great” musician.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:27 am
spence, we could tell the musicians were very talented, but it was like watching a movie soundtrack. I theorized that everyone probably hates the lead violinist. He is kind of “in charge” and the conductor shakes his hand all the time and kisses his ass. He kept bobbing and moving and drawing attention to himself. He was good, but I bet everyone talks shit about him behind his back. Yeah, so I daydreamed a little during the performance.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:28 am
jimmy…damn right it’s elitist. musicians with actual skill go unrecognized and work in relative anonymity while assholes like Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are called geniuses. are you fucking kidding me?
April 8th, 2008 at 9:31 am
coop…the first violin chair in a symphony or orchestra was traditionally the conductor before the 18th century when individual conductors rose to prominence. it’s the first violinists responsibility to tune everyone and is most often charged with the most difficult passages.
and, if it was in the last year, the first violinist in the Cleveland Orchestra is under investigation because he is also the head of the violin dept at Cleveland Institute of Music and has been banging some of his students and giving them preferential treatment. plus, hes a grade A dick and everyone truly does hate him.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:31 am
should’ve read 19th century…dont wanna fuck ya’ll up
April 8th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have the least bit of admiration for today’s pop stars. In fact, most music today is garbage in my opinion. It’s just that I don’t feel sorry for a guy, skillful though he may be, because his work isn’t drooled over by people on their way to work. I’m sure the guy who designed the beautiful building I work in is very skillful too, but I don’t see stories being written about how your average joe is too stupid to realize it. That’s basically what that article was saying.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:36 am
good point.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Sergio Mendes can’t even walk down the street in South America.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Fascinating article about the violinist. I know that was the original intent of the “experiment”, but as someone who rides the DC Metro every day I can attest that it doesn’t enhance your ability to appreciate beautiful music. Not after 35 minutes of listening to Flo Rida blare out of other people’s iPods and wondering if that’s piss or just water under your feet.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Jimmy,
I dont think that is what the article is trying to say. They are pointing out how people are too busy running to work that they dont realize that they are missing in the beauty of his playing and in general our own lives. When this first came out I asked myself “Whould I have noticed?” Probably not, I would have just kept my head down trying to make the train or running to my office. Basically telling us to stop and smell the roses once in awhile.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Dirty,
Its usually a mixture of both….
April 8th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I agree with Big L. If anything sounded elitist, it was the people from other countries that said things like “In Brazil, he would’ve drawn a crowd–but here, no way.” Fuck you. Go the fuck back to Brazil.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Big L, I see what you’re saying, and it makes sense.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am
You want to draw a crowd in Brazil? Hand out penicillin.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Vitale should be in the Hall of Making My Ears Bleed. And Ewing doesn’t belong there either.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Thanks for the Wash Post link, TBL. Amazing piece of writing.