From the Wire:
Associated Press — The NBA All-Star game is coming to the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in 2010 and plenty of good seats are available — more than 100,000.
Living up to the old adage about doing things bigger in Texas, the Dallas Mavericks and Cowboys are collaborating on hosting next season’s showcase event. It [...]
30Oct08
UFC 92 is a beast
The UFC consistently puts up good pay-per-view fight cards, and lots of people are excited about the November 15 matchup of Brock Lesnar and Randy Couture, including myself. But if you look ahead a month, UFC 92 on December 27 features Wanderlei Silva vs. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Frank Mir vs. Antonio Nogueira, and Forrest Griffin [...]
The ballot is out for those that are interested in voting for the Pro Bowl. You know, I always love to vote for these things but I rarely ever watch. It’s guaranteed every year I’ll catch the NBA All-Star game (and some of its festivities), I’ll tune in for a couple of innings for the [...]
29Oct08
Warriors fall short in opener
The DeMarcus Nelson experiment didn’t turn out so well in the Warriors’ first game. He played sparingly, only 14 minutes, and scored six points in his time on the court. He only had two turnovers, but it’s clear from the numbers Don Nelson is not favoring him.
Here’s what the AP had to say:
Oakland native DeMarcus [...]
29Oct08
Greg Oden gets hurt again
Portland’s Greg Oden has to be one of the most injury-prone basketball players in history. He had injury problems during college, and a knee injury kept him out his entire rookie year. 13 minutes into season 2, and he’s on crutches again, out 2-4 weeks with a foot sprain.
It’s depressing to see a young star [...]
29Oct08
Thompson shines in debut
Leading the NBA Rookie of the Year competition: Jason Thompson! Since the Sacramento Kings can’t beat anybody, I have to get excited about scouting the young talent on the team, and so far so good. Thompson, the 12th overall pick in the 2008 draft, finished second on the team with 18 points in the season [...]
29Oct08
Begging for Bollinger
I don’t ever want to see Brad Johnson pick up another football and try to throw it as long as I live. He is not accurate, he is not mobile, he does not make good decisions and he can not throw past 10 yards.
He was a joke against the Rams, with three interceptions to only [...]
Undrafted rookie at the point for opener
The Chronicle is reporting that DeMarcus Nelson, the Vallejo-bred hoop star, is going to be the Warriors starting point guard for the opener tonight against the New Orleans Hornets. This is the side show until Monta Ellis returns. I can’t imagine he’ll match up well with Chris Paul, but [...]
I still miss Baron Davis. But Ron Artest, not so much.
I imagine Davis’ gaping hole in the Golden State Warriors’ lineup will only get bigger as we jump head first into the NBA season. But as Don Corleone would exude, “Fugghet about ‘em.”
There are slim hopes for Northern California teams and even slimmer hopes of [...]
In his first game at the helm of the San Francisco 49ers, coach Mike Singletary showed us what kind of job he would do. He benched J.T. O’Sullivan for his 17 turnovers, including three in Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks, and sent Vernon Davis to the locker room for being “nonchalant” about causing his [...]
