The Roundup: Should We Go All NBA Today?
College Football, High School Sports, Horse Racing, International Basketball, MMA, NBA, NFL retirees, Politics, Soccer, Tennis, Video May 5th. 2009, 8:00am
Rachel Bilson … creating an invisible car? Cool … nine really, really large sea creatures … why did reporters rise for Obama, and not for Bush? … Joan Rivers hates poker players? … after the jump, Brady and Gisele from last night, plus the Megan Fox video no fewer than 14 people emailed in …
Print and read: Underdogs. (New Yorker via Simmons)
Strange but neat story about Linas Kleiza’s artsy parents. (NYT)
Kenyon Martin fined $25,000 for his foul of Dirk. (Denver Post)
Rich Eisen admits most people are sick of the Favre story. (Twitter)
Yes, Gemma, we get it, Maradona is a short man. (Kickette)
Former Clemson guard Terrell McIntyre (no relation) is named 1st team All-Euro for the third year in a row. (Pawsitive Press)
Mine That Bird will race in the Preakness. (Daily Racing News)
Serena Williams says to ignore the rankings – she’s No. 1. (Bootlegger Sports)
At 39, Chuck Liddell seems ready to call it a career. (SI)
High school athletes and the concussion risks. (USA Today)
Congress and the BCS: Sick of the “they’ve got better things to do” argument. (CGB)
Sean Avery, partying: “He was wearing a tight black shirt, thick glasses and wide-legged swishy black pants. He looked ridiculous.” (Page 6)
[Vid has been yanked; see the full thing here.]
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May 5th, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Read that SImmons article yesterday when he posted it on twitter… Gladwell writes sports poetry man
/waiting for someone to call Gladwell overrated or something else stupid
May 5th, 2009 at 8:10 AM
That’s an odd spot for a Brady photo. It’s like, “That’s right, cheer for Tom, give all your love to Tom.”
/Simpsons’d
May 5th, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Lakers suck.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:13 AM
I feel like Ballin is going to be especially interesting today
May 5th, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Goliath was a fraud.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:17 AM
I spy a cameltoe!
May 5th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
“Should we go all NBA today?”
Sure, let’s just ignore the dueling hat tricks between AO and Sid last night. That’s probably what the Four Letter will do.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
I had David picked from the get-go. He was scrappy.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Sure, just ignore a hockey game that had everything. The 2 glamour boys of the league getting hat tricks with a few ridiculous goals, great goaltending at both ends, horrible officiating, diving, hard checks. Let’s just talk hoops.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:19 AM
To be fair guys, TBL just wants to go all NBA so he can ignore the Yankees losing to the Sox again.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:20 AM
That was a great hockey game. NHL has been dying for a matchup like that for years. They never got to see it materialize with Lemieux and Gretzky. That was pretty sweet.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Shit, that is a giant foxtoe.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:22 AM
the headline was more a subtle dig at the lakers, but obviously it wont be all nba today.
and i dont know what happened in baseball yet – im watching the fox video for the 14th time
May 5th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Coming from someone who had three documented concussions before I graduated HS – when you come back is imprortant, you certainly need rest. However, you’re likely going to have another concussion at some point, and more likely again after the 2nd one, and so on…
May 5th, 2009 at 8:25 AM
anyone see Ankiel almost break his neck last night?
May 5th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
I probably would’ve been thinking the same thing if I was interviewing her.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
This is why Young and Aikman retired. They would have died on the field.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:27 AM
Would be nice if Malkin showed up for the series.
Avery is trying like a bitch to drive up his Q rating, but if you’re universally known as a douchefuck then maybe you should dial it back a notch.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Wow, I had no clue about the 2 hat tricks til now… thats kinda crazy…
May 5th, 2009 at 8:33 AM
The real question is: Did Major Garret do it the other way around?
May 5th, 2009 at 8:34 AM
anyone see Ankiel almost break his neck last night?
He made a similar catch last Saturday against the Nationals right in front of me. I tip my hat to that kind of play.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:34 AM
terrible Gemma pic
May 5th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Awesome hockey game last night. Ovechkin and Crosby dueling it out for hat tricks. What more can you ask for?
May 5th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
The Roundup: Should We Go All NBA Today?
Are you kidding me? Have you ever googled “Tom Brady Hat?” There are so many possible posts out there, it’s incredible
here’e one to whet our appetites
May 5th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
You always rise for The One, not for John Milton.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
forget:
DAMN YOU FELIX
May 5th, 2009 at 8:36 AM
What’s up with Thailand and these huge sea creatures? And how could we have this many comments and nothing on the sweet shorts on the guy in the picture with the largest Marlin? This is why I never could catch a record fish – I would never go on a boat with a guide dressed like that!
May 5th, 2009 at 8:39 AM
The marlin and the salmon like, don’t even look like their respective species. that crab looked great.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:45 AM
I know it was the 80s, but damn. The only thing that guy was fishing for was trouser trout.
And yay, lucky me. For our quarterly office morale outing, we’re going to a baseball game. I get to sit in a cold drizzle and watch the Nationals and Astros battle it out. No beer, maybe catch a cold, and watch 2 shitty teams disgrace the national pastime, all while trying to avoid being mugged or shot.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
No beer because its a work thing?
May 5th, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Dirty – I hate the Nationals, but I went to see Saturday with some Cardinals fans. The weather was shitty, it was Latino Heritige Day at the park (excessive salsa music), Poo-holes didn’t play, and the game lasted 2hrs, which hindered my beer consumption. Just a horrible experience.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Are all you fools in DC or what? And yes, the Nats suck. I’ve been to one game, and it was 5 dollars. It was ok.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Phil Hughes > Greinke
May 5th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
I work in Arlington, so that Nats are the local team here. I miss working in downtown Baltimore and going to day games at Camden Yards. Better ballpark, better team, better tail to look at, and there are a ton of places to pre/post game at.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Arlington girls are the worst people on Earth. They act like they’re dimes when they’re C-team at best. Every one of those bars sucks (Ballroom, Clarendon Grille, Mister Days, etc).
May 5th, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Yeah everyone around here from Maryland says how much better Camden is, and I have to believe them. SW DC is a ghost town.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:03 AM
You might be the first person in history to complain about a 2 hr baseball game, ill.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Yeah Arlington is basically a college campus for graduates. A bunch of cookie cutter bars and chain restaurants. The girls are hotter in Arlington than DC though, in my experience.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
somebody is actually complaining about a baseball game that only lasts two hours? What did you want, more ball scratching? More pitching changes? I miss two hour baseball games. The old Greg Maddux 87 pitch complete game, and so forth.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
It was a 1pm game on a Saturday. I wanted a smooth transition from drinking at the game to drinking in the evening. Instead, had to cab it to an Irish Pub at 3:30, was coerced into car bombs, which ended my night around 8pm. I missed the Hatton/Paq fight.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:31 AM
I think you can call Gladwell overrated, but it’s not really his fault.
His great skill is taking complex research and making it simple and applicable. He gives credit and he does everything he is supposed to. But, the ideas are attributed to him rather than the person who came up with them. He is the name and face when they enter popular culture. Hence, he gets credited for the “tipping point” though he did not come up with the concept.
He’s an excellent writer and journalist -Â not overrated. But, the notions of him as this revolutionary mega-thinker who warrants 7-figure book deals and 5-figure speaking engagements are perhaps a bit over the top.
I see him as an extraordinarily good college professor. That doesn’t mean he deserves the plaudits for ideas that weren’t his.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:38 PM
I second that motion. I lived in that area for 7.5 years with many nights out in Arlington and in Arlington proper for just over 1. That social scene there is so lame. And what’s with the douches from Virginia Tech and their cliques all the time? Is that some Southern thing a la what one sees with the SEC schools in Atlanta? When I moved to Las Vegas, it was refreshing, as all these chicks who thought were prima vagina (pronounced “preema vageena”) would visit and be put to severe shame. Then I never had to look back at such bitches and ninnies and just stuck to quality. Here is an example of what many chicks in Metro DC look and/or act like; you’ll see these types at a Panera if you go there. Even here in Metro Philly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKdEdzHnfU
May 5th, 2009 at 12:45 PM
I share the pain on the pick of my Lakers TBL Godfather (my Bestern Conference [credit to Clown] team). In fact, so far all of my picks to advance in this second round have screwed it up in the first game after I went 6 for 8 in the first round with two teams picked in the exact number of games and Houston advancing in 6 instead of 7 as predicted. (Missed New Orleans and San Antonio)