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Credit to espn.com for this bit of news. This is good news for NBA fans. I shudder to think of a sports world without the NBA. I really hope these guys aren't just blowing smoke up our asses, and that they actually can work something out by July 1st. The idea of the NBA being locked out (again) would be quite depressing for me. ←

All I know is that the only bad pitcher I saw from the Royals that entire series was Jeremy Affeldt. I think that given any decent amount of run support Zach Greinke will be a solid #2 starter in the MLB and the kid Burgos in the pen has just nasty stuff. Too bad they're the Royals and those guys will probably be on other teams by 2007.

This is by far the best Batman movie to have been made. Cilian Murphy plays the Scarecrow perfectly and the whole Ra's Ah Ghul angle is awesome. Don't want to give anything away except for the fact that it is an awesome movie and if anyone has any doubts about seeing it throw them out the window. You won't be disappointed.

The Dodgers just got swept by the Royals. Needless to say that is embarassing but hey the two teams in front of them in the division got swept by the Indians and the Tigers so no ground was lost in the division race. I'd just like to say to Derek Lowe, every time someone commits an error behind you, you don't need to implode and give up a ton of runs. Seriously you've been doing it for about 4 years now. And Jeff Weaver has officially been placed on my shit list.

This show is just crazy. It is definitely not a show for people who are used to normal joke-punchline humor. Clarence (the blue puppet) is funny. "What are you running from?" and the patience sketches are hilarious. The guy doing the puppeteering must've gotten punched in the face like 100 times. Some of the cartoons include D.O.G.O.B.G.Y.N. which is just a dog ripping babies out of women, one in one case while skydiving. It's hilarious. But some of the actual skits are just as messed up. If you've ever seen Law and Order SVU or Oz you know who Christopher Meloni is. He does a sketch about an epidemic on the show, coodies. How they do this is just gross and makes my brother sick watching it. On a lighter note there is a guy named Mr. Story who acts like he is reading to himself while he is illiterate. The funniest part of the sketch though is the thoughts in the kids heads. Shit, some of the things the writers have these kids say is just wrong.

I don't see this going anywhere next year but after that they'll be free of six contracts and use that money to get a big man back in LA. That being said, that big man will not be Shaquille O'Neal and The Zen Master Heir to the Lakers throne will not honor his full three year contract and go smoke weed in Montana somewhere.

All I know is that is was on NESN, the local sports station here in New England and shit was that a beatdown. When Todd Hollandsworth and Greg Maddux hit home runs in the same game I think that equals victory. And also the fact that I think everybody 1-9 in the starting lineup got a hit usually is a good recipe for success. And in closing the award for most unindpired performance in a sad attempt to end a blowout game goes to............CLIFF BARTOSH!

Levels I enjoy: Coagulation, Headlong, Sanctuary Levels I dread: Warlock, Midship Give me a Big Team Battle Slayer match or 1 flag CTF anyday but please stop it with the Assaults already, especially Assault on Ivory Tower. Gamertag: grundleSLAP, I am on most often during the week as I don't have to work from Monday to Thursday until the summer starts.

You can't go wrong with Top Spin. And probably at this point you could pick it up pretty cheap or even used in the combo pack with NCAA Football 2005. It's a good game and plays well but as with almost all tennis games, the player lineup kinda stinks. Michael Chang? Cmon XSN Sports (now defunct) you couldn't have reached up a little higher than that?

The whole AL East is shaky to me at this point. The Braves can't stay healthy. The Mets nor Phillies can be consistent. The Nationals' bullpen will come back down to Earth. And the Marlins just can't score. This is anyone's division but my pick right now would still have to be the team sitting in last right now, the Florida Marlins. Willis, Burnett, Beckett, Moehler, and Leiter are a solid rotation and if the bats can just get themselves back on track this team will be a force to reckoned with. All the teams though have their weaknesses and are battling injuries so it will be a good race for the division crown until the very end.

I've already stated several times that a Pistons/Spurs finals would be unwatchable. Bore me to death. Don't get me wrong both teams are great TEAMS but I don't want to watch Ben Wallace and Tim Duncan trade missed foul shots as every layup is turned into a person face first on the floor. And memo to Rip Hamilton TAKE THE DAMN MASK OFF!

Carl Pavano looks lost out there. Not being a Yankees fan I revel in such facts but damn he's giving up bombs to Terrence Long. And hearing the players on the radio after the game, I've never heard a recent Yankees team more down. Granted they are still over .500 but they are the Yankees and their pitching is horrible. And I am not going overboard with the word horrible as they are 0-18 when they score less than 4 runs. Any day the offense gets shut down, it's over. And as a Dodgers fan, I know it's going to be a long season when Gagne walks two guys in one inning and can't get the 1-2-3 like he used to.

Iverson is still the man in Philadelphia, all Webber does is give them that top flight second scoring option when Iverson decides to have one of his 7-33 shooting nights. Iverson dropped 48 last night on the Bucks and Webber has proved so far that he is the compliment that Iverson needed to propel this team to the top of the weakest division in professional sports. People like Korver, Dalembert, McKie, and Green need to step up their games another level if this team is going to make any type of playoff push.

If it wasn't for Josh Smith it would have been an all-Phoenix night. Damn, Q-Rich hitting 9 in a row to beat Korver and Nash setting a record in the Skills Competition as well as putting some sick passes up to Amare in the dunk contest and Team Phoenix obliterating the Shooting Stars field (which they should have, they were the youngest team and had the only All-Star of the current players)... But yeah Chris Andersen needs to be banned from any further televised competitions of any kind and the NBA needs to bring back the you can replace only maybe one or two screw-ups...16 though? Cmon Birdman go away. I think the soccer pass dunk was the best of the night, followed secondly by J.R. Smith's behind the back dunk. Josh Smith just brought the fuckin' thunder though every dunk was just filthy and with authority and him leaping over K-Mart and then for his next dunk donning the Nique jersey is going to be Dunk Contest lore.

Dear Donovan McNabb, Thank you for entitling me to another year of "Hey your team sucks and ours is the greatest ever." bullshit from annoying Patriots fans. Your three ghastly interceptions did nothing but brighten my day with the thought of ridiculous amounts of gloating on the horizon. And for once in my life, I can't blame the Patriots dirty play or the refs making shitty calls. I blame you and your brain dead coaches for having clock management skills that make Herman Edwards' look legendary. I blame your secondary that didn't seem to catch on that the Patriots like to throw a ton of screen passes. But Donovan you take the cake, Todd Pinkston and Terrell Owens were playing their asses off out there and you choked the game away with taking double digit losses on sacks (not the offensive line's fault when you run backwards) and throwing so many off-target passes it would make Stan Humphries look Super Bowl ready. So in closing Donovan, have your mom go knit the team some more scarfs because you just made it a very cold rest of the winter for your team and Philly fans/Patriot haters nation/world wide. Sincerely, A Pissed Off Patriot Hater

Plus LeBron was in the McDonald's All-American game Slam Dunk contest and he didn't do anything too crazy except all of his dunks were done with ridiculous amounts of air and he was LeBron James. If my memory serves me correctly he beat out another crazy dunker J.R. Giddens (currently at Kansas) because Giddens missed a bunch of dunks in the finals.

I got bored so I started looking at the NBA All-Star junk for this year. Noone has been picked for any of the competitions yet and I felt the need to write who I think should be in each competition just so I don;t lose my sanity in boredom... Slam Dunk Contest (can't have more than 3 years in league) Josh Smith, Atlanta (but he's on the IL right now) Tayshaun Prince, Detroit Fred Jones, Indiana (defending champ) Andre Emmett, Memphis Tony Allen, Boston (If Smith is still hurt at the All-Star break) Three Point Contest Kyle Korver, Philadelphia Fred Hoiberg, Minnesota Ben Gordon, Chicago Mike Miller, Memphis Jason Terry, Dallas Cuttino Mobley, Sacramento Skills Challenge Kirk Hinrich, Chicago Jason Kidd, New Jersey Steve Nash, Phoenix Brevin Knight, Charlotte

Everyone should know by now that the NBA All-Star voting is going to produce the same results almost every year. The casual fan is unaware to breakout seasons or even consistently great play from people. They go to the names they know, even if they are hurt or aren't playing "All-Star" calibur ball. Canadian fans got Vince Carter in all these years and Chinese fans are going to do the same thing for Yao Ming and now since he plays for the Rockets, Tracy McGrady. Not saying that these guys aren't nasty players in their own right but a lot of other deserving players don't get looks because fucking retards like the 223,743 people who voted for Alonzo Mourning have no idea whose playing good or should I say to the highest level that season. The whole Yao thing was similar to when Ichiro came into Major League baseball and the All-Star Game was in Seattle. With baseball, the host team always gets more All-Stars than they should but in this case in Seattle it got out of hand. I see no explanation for why Steve Nash is not starting for the West except for the fact that people see Kobe Bryant and Tracy McGrady and don't even give Nash a look. True NBA fans votes show through as the returns come in as Nash went from low in the guards to third behind the ridiculous totals of Bryant and McGrady. I am not saying they shouldn't be on the team (look at my reserves) but I think the NBA should promote some of their new talent every once in a while outside of LeBron James. Here is what my All-Star lineups would look like from who I voted for: EAST Guards: Dwyane Wade, Miami LeBron James, Cleveland Forwards: Richard Jefferson, New Jersey who would have to be replaced due to injury (probably by actual starter Vince Carter who has stepped it up lately) Antawn Jamison, Washington Center: Shaquille O'Neal, Miami Reserves: Grant Hill, Orlando (who will be injury replaced); Allen Iverson, Philadelphia; Gilbert Arenas, Washington; Chris Bosh, Toronto; Kirk Hinrich, Chicago; Ben Wallace, Detroit; Michael Redd, Milwaukee WEST Guards: Steve Nash, Phoenix Ray Allen, Seattle Forwards: Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Amare Stoudemire, Phoenix Center: Brad Miller, Sacramento Reserves: Tim Duncan, San Antonio; Kevin Garnett, Minnesota; Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers; Tracy McGrady, Houston; Corey Maggette, Los Angeles Clippers; Rashard Lewis, Seattle; Yao Ming, Houston (there are no other centers)

Gatti held his end of the bargain up last night in the attempt to put together a fight between him and Floyd Mayweather Jr. He beat Jesse James Leija in the fifth round and said that a fight between him and Mayweather had already been set up for sometime this summer. Missing from the arena was Floyd Mayweather Jr. He was supposed to be in New Jersey for the Gatti-Leija fight so that promotion for the Gatti-Mayweather fight could begin right away. Mayweather no-showed. The thing was though that Mayweather no showed at a court date earlier that day as well. Gatti said that this could only hurt the chances of this scheduled superfight from occurring. Coming in February, the 20th title defense of Bernard Hopkins vs. Howard Eastman...should be a good one.