9:34 PM Never really had an opinion on Canadian hoops hero Jay Triano, who is now coaching the Toronto Raptors. But after watching him do this, he's officially my favorite coach of an NBA franchise.
9:25 PM Interesting stat in Topeka Capitol-Journal from Kansas State's hoops win over Dayton today in Puerto Rico: "K-State comes home with its first nonconference win over a ranked opponent since 2000." Is that a good thing, or bad?
7:55 PM WTH: "Ricky Williams will send me a text message saying, for example, to work on his ankle, visualize Ricky's ankle as if he's standing in front of me. I visualize him glowing. I make a sweeping motion over my ankle to remove the dirty energy from his ankle that's creating an abnormality.''
Billy Crystal’s recent romp through Paul Maholm’s repertoire made for lovely press on a slow news day and the old boy got to live the dream a mere four decades too late. (By the way, what the hell, Paul? Throwing cutters at a 60-year-old man? Way to get into the moment.) However, what are Crystal’s baseball bona fides? High school ball? Long time ago, Billy.
At least Woody Allen made an effort to stay involved in the game after his stickball days were over. In this video, you can see Allen and super genius Jonathan Winters in an early attempt at educational television called “Hot Dog”. They both “explain” where baseball gloves came from in the ’70s. (See where they sew in the small pouch for the greenies?)
• Spencer Hall of THE SPORTING BLOG snaps a shot of Vols coach Bruce Pearl practicing for his post-coaching job as army recruitment poster model:
• In honor of Bob Knight’s arrival at ESPN, INTENTIONAL FOUL whips out a clip of Comcast Sportsnet’s Michael Jenkins doing his best impression of Bobby behind the desk.
