These have been sitting in my inbox. I wanted to provide some commentary before posting them… but whatever.
CBS has a new web show: Heckle U:
Heckle U is an offbeat “mockumentary” about two failed athletes and their subsequent rise to heckling fame. Starring Owen Benjamin (House Bunny) as “Chance,” Kirk Fox (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) as [...]
Might as well turn it into April Fool’s Week, right?
or: I couldn’t think of anything clever to write about JR Smith’s 8 three-pointers
Line of the Night: JR Smith (1.03) is pretty much Ballin Outta Control. He made 8 threes last night, shooting 57%, to go with 7 assists. He’s shooting over 50% for his [...]
At this point in the season, I believe that there is no real contender to Dwight Howard’s being the Best Big Man in the NBA. I called him out as a fantasy force over at Points in the Paint early in the pre-season and addressed his definitive advantage in the head to head format while [...]
Read More..>>Okay, so the headline is kind of misleading since Brandon Roy was actually 30th out of 39 players last night. But watching his last-less-than-a-second shot crystallized the difference between fantasy and reality. There is a game we play, and it’s not always the game they play. But this blog is about the game WE play, [...]
Read More..>>I had an empty feeling in my stomach this weekend because there were no regular season games to recap (although the playoffs started on an exciting note). But after investing 170 days of our lives, it’s only fitting to recap the best and worst of the season that was. What do you say, Nels?
Let’s start [...]
Line of the Night: Only 3 games yesterday, but one of them was the epic showdown between the Nuggets and the Warriors for the 8th playoff spot in the West (using the current exchange rate, that roughly translates into the 3rd seed in the East). So, it’s only fitting that Carmelo Anthony (6.0) wins [...]
Read More..>>Did you ever have “backwards day” in elementary school, where everyone would wear their clothes backwards and the day would be all mixed up? No? Me neither. But let’s make up for lost time with the strange day that was yesterday.
Line of the Night: If you had Al Thornton (5.7) in your lineup yesterday, [...]