Billy Paultz Reconsidered

The media consensus on the NBA Finals, which finally begin tomorrow, goes something like this: The Spurs should win. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about Lebron.
No, no, no, no, no.
First of all, Lebron is 22 years old. He’s not ready yet, and he’s only in The Finals because the Eastern half […]

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Billy the Kid has apparently reconsidered his move to the NBA, from which we can only conclude that he’s been reading the Jockstrap Chronicles. I knew there was something I liked about that dude.

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jumped on LeBron James’ Thursday-night leap into the pantheon quicker than this, but most of the fawning it its wake has been pretty on the money.
James isn’t the quickest player in the league, but nobody in his quickness class is anything like 6-8, 240 pounds of muscle. He’s not the strongest player in the league (although […]

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who bailed on the University of Florida Thursday to coach the Orlando Magic, ESPN’s Pat Forde, here, asks the right question: Why is it that, for some college basketball coaches, a great thing is never good enough?
You always have to tread carefully on these situations, because no one can truly stand in someone else’s shoes, […]

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That it was a dull holiday weekend became clear when I found myself watching the selection show for the NCAA baseball tournament on ESPN Memorial Day. These “minor” holidays suck for those of us who have Mondays off anyway.
(And yes, in anticipation of huffy e-mails and as the son of a decorated Korean War veteran, […]

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of Saturday’s beginning of the WNBA’s 11th season, AP columnist Tim Dahlberg has this piece on the popularity of women’s sports. In a nutshell: Women aren’t much more interested in women’s sports than men are, and women are much more interested in men’s sports than in women’s.
This is far from an indictment of Title 9, […]

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fiasco has got me thinking about how varied, from sport to sport, the accepted “culture” and customary behaviors are, and how all that affects (and is affected by) public expectation.

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Dustin Salisbery has been invited to the NBA’s pre-draft camp.

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…the NBA player-turned-pretty-good-broadcaster, is calling himself a “moron” because he didn’t consider Tim Duncan an MVP candidate.
Kerr’s right- not that he’s a moron, but that he and everybody else missed the boat on Duncan, an historically great player without whom his team would be sunk. This is interesting for two reasons:

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