The Morning After: February 18, 2009
Good morning everybody; happy hump day…or happy birthday if your name happens to be Dr. Dre…or happy Gambian Independence Day if you’re reading from Gambia. In celebration of Dr. Dre’s b-day and Gambian independence, here’s some sweet steel as a gift from us at Sparty & Friends. What do steel drum melodies have to do with Dr. Dre and Gambia? Nothing as far as I know; but there they are anyway, so enjoy.
I’ll spare you my mindless drivel and get on with the links:
By the way, I know a big, pink elephant is standing in the room of the sports world today, but I’m avoiding all direct linkage to it. I’m sure we’ll adequately address it at some point. Anywho, on with the interesting stuff…
Every now and then, a nice story of sportsmanship comes out. I’m all for more of these in the face of gamesmanship.
It’s not often that a successful coach doesn’t have his contract extended periodically. Texas Tech’s Mike Leach has allowed his contract extension deadline to pass again.
The MLB Players Association passed around a memo yesterday at training camps, coincidentally almost during the pink elephant’s press conference.
Perdoo did a number on Sparty last night.
Looks like the highly anticipated battle between iFart and the Pull My Finger App has finally begun.
Floyd Landis is back on his bike. Been a while since his last race and previous jersey, huh?
D-Ho blew up last night…Gatortrey was there. Does he care to comment?
Speaking of the Magic, they’re borrowing $10 million from the NBA to cover operating losses. How is one of the hotter teams in the Association managing to lose $15 million a year over the last six years and projecting the same fiscal result for this year? Can somebody smarter than me explain this?
There’s still a few high profile college football recruits that are as yet unsigned. Bryce Brown recently visited Tennessee…cookie to the commenter(s) that find the latest recruiting violation(s)!
A fat and out of shape guy calls another guy out for being fat and out of shape.
Zach Randolph of the Paperclips got a little testy; then got ejected.
The official start to NFL Draft season begins with the Combine in Indianapolis; it begins today and the Navy won’t let one of the invited participants attend.
For all of you that keep bugging me about the life and times of Jason Witten’s older brother, you can leave me alone now…he’s accepted a head coaching gig at John Battle High School.
Count my vote along with this guy’s regarding Shaq heading back to the Lakeshow.
In addition to being hump day, Dre’s b-day, Gambia’s Independence Day, and Combine day, today also happens to be the 8-year anniversary of Dale Earnhardt’s death. I know some of you have no interest in anything or anyone that turns left for a living, but The Intimidator’s death was a monumental event in the history of stock car racing. The moment contains what is probably one of the most bittersweet calls in sports as Darrell Waltrip was on the horn and cheering his brother Michael Waltrip through the final lap and onto his first Daytona 500 victory, all while having missed seeing the wreck that would kill his friend and alter the stock car racing landscape from that point forward. Pour one out for #3 today; I sure will.
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FIIIIIRST!!
/that’s ghey
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Kobe would go on a killing spree if Shaq came back. Literally. He would have a complete psychotic meltdown.
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I can explain the Magic losing money. The Amway Arena has no club seats, and only 20 suites. All at the top of the O-Rena having sat there a couple times… It’s a 100 feet off the court.
Which is why the most state of the art venue is being built now.
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am I the only one who wants to read the memo from MLBPA?
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I was at the Magic game. Dwight was all over the place! That being said JJ’s 3 was about as good as it gets, glad to see he’s found a role.
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did you do any halftime entertainment contests, trey?
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No not this time. I did get the award for worst comment. Next to me were 4 German tourists. When the Polish Marcin Gortat came in I said “Don’t invade him.”
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HA HA! I seriously just laughed out loud. good thing all my neighbor coworkers are slackers and aren’t here yet.
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Worst part. They DID understand English.
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That’s a fantastic picture of D-Ho. I didn’t know he had long ear hair.
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pistons suck
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Johnny Damon must have used that memo yesterday when he said murder was worse than using steroids.
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Johnny Damon is the self-proclaimed idiot. he can say things like that.
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Hoping this deal doesn’t happen…
Cavs eye Jamison as deadline nears
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it is over if that deal goes through.
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Over for the Pistons. The Celtics will be ok, but it might take them 5 games to beat the Cavs, instead of 4.
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I disagree. Jamison is an oversized chucker.
Never has been on a good team, because he’s doesn’t add much. Why do you think Dallas was so quick to just let him walk away? He doesn’t play well with others.
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Trey-
False. Jamison is a great teammate and should have been an All Star this season.
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If Lebron can turn Mo Williams into an All Star, I’m sure he can turn Jamison into a HOFer.
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No Miz I want to read the memo too
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Oh I forgot about all those great teams he’s been on. Especially when he’s the leading scorer.
He lasted one season in Dallas for a reason. Trust me.
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We seriously need another sport besides NBA to talk about. Hockey for example…
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Stamkos!
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hawheye-
We were actually going to have a hockey post until we realized less people would read it, not because of the topic but because after seeing the topic half of our readership would commit suicide
And you know how suicide is bad for business
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I’d be more than happy to discuss the best team in the NHL…the Boston Bruins.
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Trey-got to disagree with you on this one. For what will be a short stint this season, jamison will defer nicely on that team.
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hawkeye- i will try to work something up in the near future.
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Fixed for post-season honesty
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miz–I’d love to see what the MLBPA cooked up for that memo too.
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Nice story with the HS b-ball game…but who won?
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Anyone else getting a 404 error trying to go to MLJ?
/mikezone
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Didn’t the Canadians just send Kovalav home to get his mind straight or rest or something like that?
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Kovalev was awesome in NHL 95
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rek- no problems for me
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Yeah, the Habs might not even get a chance to beat the Bruins in the playoffs at the rate they’re going.
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MLJ is broken for me too.
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I’ve tried MLJ on both browsers here at work and no luck…I noticed it last night at home first.
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just spoke to one of them, they are working on the issue. the hamster slowed down.
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Tell Hef to slap Rexy around some and get him to work harder.
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I thought they were using clown…Mexicans provide the cheapest labor.
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