Friendly reminder - SbB’s live blogging tonight’s Cavs-Wizards Game 3.

• If Kobe Bryant can jump a car, why can’t Kenny Smith?

• Erin Phillips is one basketballer we’d like to pick ‘n’ roll with.

• Mets pitcher Joe Smith engages in some friendly chatter with the folks at the Friendly Confines.

• Gatorade demands that they’re the only ones to quench the White Sox’s thirst.

• Braves fans try to prove they’re just as punch-drunk as your typical Mets, Phillies, Yanks or Red Sox supporter.

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Central Ohio is all abuzz today as former Michigan offensive lineman has done the unthinkable: He’s transferring to Ohio State. Justin Boren, unhappy with the new Rich Rodriguez-led regime in Ann Arbor, will have sit out a year and, thanks to Big 10 rules, can never go on scholarship while suiting up for the Buckeyes.

So even though Boren is no all-american prospect**, he’s still a first class practice player for Jim Tressel. And a free player who doesn’t count against the team’s scholarship numbers.

We worked on the Ohio State radio network for five years (hosting Buckeye football pre- and postgame talk shows and co-hosting a daily radio show with Kirk Herbstreit) and can’t remember every hearing about a UM player transferring to Columbus. Or vice versa.

The COLUMBUS DISPATCH did some digging though, and the results as somewhat astonishing. Read more…