Elsewhere:
NBA:Mockology: The NBA FanHouse Mock Draft, Picks 21-30: 21. 76ers pick: Tiago Splitter, Brazil. Leave him overseas for a year. Or 10. Who cares? It's the Sixers we're talking about.
Paul Pierce Doesn't Know Mini-Me's Name: Oh TMZ, how do you keep bumping into NBAers and celebs in public? It's like you do this for a living! Well, this time, they found Paul Pierce out and about getting a name-lesson from the amazing Verne Troyer.
Pre-Weekend Video Flotsam:
Competitive Drinking: A Sport Whose Time Has Come: It's got all the prerequisites: a longstanding culture of amateur competition, ample sponsorship possibilities, and vomiting, since all consumption sports have to have the potential of explosive, uncontrolled, and explosive (did we mention explosive?) vomiting.
International Pastime: Anime Baseball is Scary: I never really got into anime, so I can't even begin to explain what that video above. ("He has pitched! Three Steel Balls style?!") All I know is that once I started watching I couldn't turn away.
High School Catch of the Century From 1969: Video of what may be the best catch in Chicago high school football history.
Soccer:Is Tom Cruise Buying Beckham's New Club? No doubt he would love to sing the praises of a new movie-star boss, who was seen last Sunday in the stands at Real Madrid's title-clinching match. Cruise sat between Victoria Beckham and someone that kind of looked like his wife but didn't seem to want to kiss him.
Helen Mirren Wants to Sex Thierry Henry Up: Mirren was asked by The Stage which footballer she preferred, Beckham or Thierry Henry. "For sex," she said, "Thierry Henry, but for companionship David Beckham, because he is such a lovely, sweet man."
USA 2, Canada... Er... 1... Sorta: Yeah... the only word to describe the USA performance today was "fortunate." Or "crappy," I guess. But mostly fortunate.
NHL:Hockey Writer Unleashes Hell on ESPN: As Jibblescribbits reports, both Dater's original post and his follow-up, which was apparently titled "Now That I've Had My First Cup of Coffee," have been deleted from the Denver Post's hockey blog archives.
Billionaires Backing Vegas Hockey Arena: "Just ... follow the money." That the advice I'd give to hockey fans who seriously don't believe expansion to Las Vegas is a sure bet.
Caps Jersey Leak Was the Real Deal: Ever since Boston Dirt Dogs got hold of an image that purported to be an MLB mock up of an Alex Rodriguez road Red Sox jersey, we've learned that seeing is not believing.
Have a great weekend,
JCN (perma)
