Nov 6, 2008 | 1:05 PM | Video: Allen Iverson's "We Talking 'bout Practice?" Redux

by: Paul Miles

Labels: allen iverson, detroit pistons, video

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Nov 5, 2008 | 3:01 PM | Wednesday Afternoon Skip Pass

by: Paul Miles

How awesome was that last night? Old as balls John McCain giving his concession speech by midnight. Things are looking up, ya'll. It's a brand new day.

:: And One: Converst in the Church of LB - News flash: LeBron isn't going to Detroit unless Joe Dumars backs semi-trailer full of thousand dollar bills up to LeBron's spot, the Pistons don't have a shot. LeBron's going to want to get out of fly-over country. He's going to need to be in either New York or Los Angeles. If I'm a Pistons fan, I'm going to be happy if Joe gets Chris Bosh. Deal with it.

:: NBA.com: Ex-Suns guard Johnson among sports figures election winners - Kevin Johnson is the Mayor-elect of Sacramento becoming the city's first black mayor. The Kings will still suck liberal amounts of suck this season. In more politics cum basketball news, Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson will have the ear of the President via his sister, Ms. Obama.

:: NY Times: Marbury Now Sees the Virtues of Brown - Stephon's feeling all nostalgic over the playing time he got with Larry Brown. I guess watching from the expensive seats will do that to you.

:: ABC.net.au: Blaze finally opens NBL account - The Crocodiles eat an 'L' and the Blaze get their first win of the season in a 115:106 home win on Fox last night...or today...or sometime during the Age of Enlightenment. I can never figure out the whole time zone thing with Australia.

:: CSKA Basket: CSKA starts in Junior Basketball League - CSKA junior team opens up their season.

Labels: allen iverson, cska moscow, detroit pistons, gold coast, larry brown, lebron james, stephon marbury, townsville

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Nov 4, 2008 | 8:16 PM | Election Night Post

by: Paul Miles

I have to share this with you, just because I think it's very cool.

Four years ago today, right before I moved into the apartment that I was in until this summer, my grandfather and I got into his silver Chrysler and drove down to the junior high school building so that we could vote. He and I were damn near diametrically opposed on almost everything at that point in our lives, with the glowing acception of our mutual hatred of George W Bush.

Tonight I picked up my mom at the train station in the white Dodge Dakota - the one that I bought with the help of money my grandfather left me when he passed - and her and I went to the same old junior high school to vote.

She's an old hippie, and we both love Bob Dylan records, and are both pretty far to the left. She's registered (D) while I still live on the fringe with my Libertarian affiliation (which has cost me a job, by the way). But her and I walked in to my old science class room and we voted. I was the 954th person to vote in the 4th district. Two years ago for the mid-terms, there were about 200 people in the 4th that turned out.

When we walked out we said to each other, "How cool was that?" And we weren't impressed with the voting booth, or the fact that we just voted. But in 25 years when I'm a little older and a little slower, I'll be able to tell my kids that long, long ago, before they were even a glimmer in my eye, that I participated in one of the most exciting Presidental elections in history.

I (hopefully) helped to elect the first black President in history. I participated in the election that kept this country out if it's second Great Depression and the one that ended the war in Iraq.

Now, I am a jaded old bastard, but hope, son. Hope.

Labels: barack obama, election day

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| 1:56 PM | The Rebirth of the Skip Pass

by: Paul Miles

National Basketball Association
:: BDL: Behind the box score, where Memphis has another grizzly stud - Kelly runs point on the league. And I just want to make sure everyone knows that the Sixers ran all over the Kings. Donyell and K-Rush rained threes in trash time to twist the knife in Team Maloof's back.

:: Philly.com: Both teams win in Iverson deal - My take: If Joe Dumars is angling to throw P-Diddy money at LeBron James in 2010, he's going to have a sad Christmas. But the Pistons opening up money to go after some young guns is a good thing. Allen is the only real loser, because he's in the last year of his deal and will have to perform. Schedule alert: AI won't be coming to Philly with the Bad Boys until April.

:: ESPN: Hunter says union might help Knicks, Marbury resolve dispute - Call a shop steward, Starberry's got mad issues with his boss. I wish my man would just cash that pay-off and eat the loss. You're done, kid. Open up a real estate office.

National Basketball League
:: Illawarra Mercury: Hawks star's car torched at Snakepit - Wollongong's rookie guard Rhys Martin came back from a road trip to notice his shot wasn't the only thing that was on fire find his car had been torched. Four local jackasses have been arrested by Wollongong's finest and charged with 6 counts of being criminally stupid.

:: Fox Sports: Jones cops one-match ban - Breakers' guard Phill Jones will sit one game for hitting Shawn Redhage in a 103:99 win over Perth.

Labels: allen iverson, detroit pistons, knicks, phill jones, rhys martin, sacramento kings, sixers, stephon marbury

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