Raps vs Cavs

Who is the best player to come out of the 2003 NBA draft? What’s that? Do you hear the chant? D-WADE! D-WADE! D-WADE! This guy is the most exciting player in the NBA. The Score’s show Court Cuts devotes and entire section of each weeks highlights to this one player. No one and I mean no one attacks the basket like this guy. Every night he plays he makes the highlight real and he does it with or without Shaq. Wade kept his team around 500 while Shaq was out and still managed to put up huge numbers. 28 points, 9 free throws, 4.8 boards, 7.8 assists 2.1 steals and 1.3 blocks per game! He has more blocks than Chris Bosh! It is true, I do have a bit of a man crush on Wade and I do have him on my fantasy team but I still think that I am unbiased about this.

Tonight the Raptors are going to face the player who was supposed to be the best pick in that draft. Lebron James has had a very disappointing year. All of his stats are down. He recently said that his goal was to become a “global icon”. I think he should be more concerned with getting his free through percentage above 70%. There are also some interesting statements being thrown around sports media circle questioning his commitment to his team, his coach and his daily effort. If I am Lebron, I am pretty concerned with people questioning my commitment levels. Does he want to be a global icon for excellence or for the guy that never tried hard enough to reach his potential? I am sure that the long lists of companies that he endorses don’t want to be associated with someone who has the reputation of a slacker.

I am calling the Raptors to win tonight. Bosh will put up 28 and 9 boards. I am interested to see how Parker deals with being matched-up with another big name. He did a great job on Kobe and played Vince well too.

On another note, we are getting ready to put out our first top 50 fantasy player list. We will be getting baseball done first so that people can have another cheat sheet for the upcoming drafts.

You say Goodbye, and I say Hello

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I want all you Cowboy haters out there to remember today. Because today is the day you can look back to and say “shit, that’s when the Cowboys started really kicking our asses again”.

The most popular Sports Team in North America (aka, the part of the World that Matters) finally choose a Maestro one Wade Phillips - Son of Bum - , (and really, when the old white guy with the pattern baldness wins a position of power, can any of us really ever be surprised?).

I don’t want to gush here, but when the Cowboys are beating the snot out of your favourite team next year – and Chris (Skins), Brad (Fleagles), Seb (incredibly, the Lions, THE LIONS?!), you too Natascha (whoever your team is this week) – you can say that you know a guy that predicted the rising of the Doomsday Dallas Defense.

When Demarcus Ware picks up his first Defensive POY award, you can say you heard it here first.

Mr. Ware just became Unblockable.

(I don’t want to get technical with you guys, but Mr Ware just spent Two years getting strong (265lbs) and fast enough (4.6 40 time) to control offensive Tackles at the LOS one on one, while remembering to split out into the flat and cover speedy RB’s, FB’s HB, and TE’s. Now he is moving into a system that will let him cheat that Tackle and stand over the TE or on the outside shoulder of the Tackle. I am frothing at the mouth thinking about his sack total next year. He might take out two QB’s on his own next year, and in Detroit that might be a blessing.)

But I digress.

What I want to talk about is the passing of the last true pin up girl, Anna Nicole Smith.



She died this week in a lavish hotel room in South Florida. (Had this been another era, she would have been penniless and living in a shack somewhere. I for one think that this is progress).

Anna became famous in the early nineties, the last era where you had to work for your porn. People actually bought magazines with pictures of naked women in them!
Really!
You couldn’t just google ‘sweater meat’ and get some relief whenever you felt like it. She was a stripper who was to go on to be playmate of the year and a model for Guess? Jeans. She then married an 89-year-old oil billionaire. (Will the arrows of Cupid ever be predictable?)



What I loved her for is her honesty. She grew up dirt poor, worked at the shittiest jobs – Fried Chicken joint waitress, Wal-Mart, Stripper – and managed to hit the jackpot by becoming a media circus in high heels. There was never a point where she claimed a yearning to be an actor, or singer, or fashion designer. She knew what was going on.

(I do know what the real tragedy is here: That poor people have little or no chance of escaping their poverty, and that some might say that Anna had to exploit herself to get out of poverty. Those same people might say that Women are exploited and emotionally destroyed without the rewards that Anna enjoyed. Some might even say that her exploitation of herself might have been what killed her in the end. I disagree with the last statement. I think that Anna Nicole knew what she was doing and did the best she could with what she had. The fact that her options were so limited is another topic...)

She was beautiful.
She would let pictures be taken of her while undressed.
She would be paid lavishly for that experience.

Adieu Mademoiselle Anna.
We all loved watching you make your way to the top.