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We were being extra careful with the purported Donte Stallworth news yesterday. Today it looks even worse. If nothing else, it appears that Donte Stallworth has leveled his playing career with a giant faildozer. The sources haven’t changed, but the language is getting more definitive. “Browns receiver Donte Stallworth was driving drunk last Saturday when he struck and killed a pedestrian with his Bentley in Miami Beach, a source with knowledge of the investigation told the Miami Herald Thursday.” [PD]
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Looks like Jackets’ center Derick Brassard might be able to play in the playoffs after all, should the Jackets make it out of round 1. They originally said he was “done for the year” regardless, but now the GM has amended it a bit. “We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here,” Howson said yesterday. “But if we were able to make it into the playoffs and get into the second round, yes, there’s a chance Derick could be a player for us. But he’s not going to play before May. There’s no way he plays before May.”
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Best Club Tril post, without a doubt, was the elevator story.
http://clubtrillion.blogspot.com/2009/01/love-in-elevator.html
I am such a schizophrenic LeBron James fan, it’s almost a joke. Within the last two minutes of regulation and then overtime, I went from loving him, to hating him, to loving him again. He is so good, when he does something that not other play would do and succeeds, you know he’s special. But when he doesn’t succeed, you think there may be something wrong with the guy.
For example: less than 2 minutes in the 4th quarter, LeBron pushes the team to a lead, makes a big block, and the game seems in hand. But, then he does his 18-second dribble and take a less-than-ideal shot routine, and commits a foul (which could have just as easily been 3 free throws and not 2) which allows Portland to tie it. Then LeBron does the same “me me me” show at the other end of the court, misses his shot, and we go into overtime.
But, then in overtime, he pushes the team to victory. They guy makes me want to tear my hair out, but I can’t stop watching him because of the good stuff he does….
…do I have a problem??
everyone check out the daily dime today: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-090320
Not only are the points made by tim legler waaaayyy off base (ignoring the injury to wally, the reason why we will get home court, kgs injury being “good” for the celtics, paul pierce for mvp lol, the celtics being the most mentally tough and complete team in the nba, ect.) but it is also written like a whiney 5th grader upset that his team is struggling. the writing quality is so poor he would be laughed at in the blogosphere. put espn behind that cheaply written piece and its somehow credible… complete garbage!!! it was supposed to be a nice fluff piece about the cavs but instead he comes off sounding like he hasnt watched a single nba game this year.
please comment if your so inspired
I hope athletes like Sir Charles are taking note of the Stallworth situation.
Although– listening to him spend all his time complaining about the Cavs makes me wonder if he’s paying attention to anything else at all …
Unbelievable atmosphere in the Q last night. These guys shot somewhere south of 25% in the first half, and still managed to beat a good team.
I was sitting close enough to the court to see most of the calls clearly, and the officiating was absolutely horrendous. I honestly can’t see how the league doesn’t watch these games and think something is wrong. At the end of the game, Bennett Salvatore could not stop blowing the whistle, and it was infuriating. He absolutely refused to let anything play out, and it seemed like his whistle was blowing before contact was made.
I know the Cavs are complaining more about calls this year, and I’ve seen a lot of people ( on this website included ) that are calling for them to stop. I’m on board with that to an extent, but I definitely think they had legitimate gripes after a lot of the fouls called last night.
Poorly written sentence, let me try again:
I honestly don’t understand how the league watches these games and fails to see something wrong.
I think that’s better. Need coffee.
Re: #3 – Tim Legler is so strange. I usually respect his opinion, but he goes from saying how disjointed the Celtics are, to saying how great Paul Pierce is for leading his team (which, he just said was disjointed). Good for Paul Pierce – he’s a great player. But the LeBrons, Kobes, and Wades are better.
Adam was right – leaving Wally out of the injury question is a glaring omission. The Cavs also have 9 out of the their final games at home BECAUSE THEY ALREADY PLAYED THE OTHER AWAY GAMES!! That means that the Celtics and Lakers of the world had home court advantage getting where they are, and the Cavs did it on the road.
Part of me hopes that the Celtics don’t make it out of the first round of the playoffs.
It’s funny, all of us holding our collective breath for something nice about the Cavs to be written by anyone at ESPN. I’ve read some of the most absurd things over there just this week, with the kicker being the TrueHoop entry about LeBron saying he had confidence to hit that long 3 at the end of the game vs. the Magic.
The entry then went on to say that it didn’t seem very confident to take a long shot like that with the game on the line, and LeBron should have played to his strength, taking it to the basket. Great idea, let’s take it straight at Dwight Howard, only the league’s best inside defender.
Adam and Jason are absolutely right above. I love everyone making light of the remaining home schedule. Sorry we already played almost all of our away games! Wait, no I’m not.
From the comments in TP article
We CANNOT rely on him [LeBron] to win every game
LOL.
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I tore Mike Brown apart last year. He was so frustrating. His ability to swallow his pride and accept help on the offense was huge. Consistency is so underrated. Now that he has shown an ability to grow I believe he’ll be a great coach (like popovich).
Maintaining the core 3 (Ferry/Brown/LeBron) should lead to many many championships.
And another thing, was I the only was that was really bummed when the Cavs got that garbage time turnover to put the game tally to 2? I was hoping to set the record for least turnovers in a game. Stupid Cleveland. lol
Tim Legler gets a beating on this page at Noon… just wait.
yes i cant wait for the legler beat down! i am glad people were just as frusterated as me with that nonsense.
I am pretty sure you could have an additional morning piece called “while you were waiting… espn’s spin machine article of the day” or somthin to that effect. you could have a contest to name the column cuz i am just not that creative. nonetheless, i gaurenSHEED you that there is enough questionable material that warrents a daily update. then again, that might be a little too negative for the family friendly (and much apprecitated) wfny.com
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