Billy Paultz Reconsidered

We’re coming at you live from the palatial living room of Chez Gross, where we’ll be one of only 67,428 bloggers doing an NBA draft lottery.
The ESPN crew is Stu Scott anchoring, with Jay Bilas, Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson doing analysis from the desk. Stephen A. has his own little talk-show set off […]

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I have this blog… maybe you heard something about it, despite the fact that it’s been deeper in disappearance mode than Lamar Odom.
Ba-zing.
Anyway, some thoughts on what’s been going on in my absence. Let’s see, uh, we’ve been to the moon….
Seriously, the Lakers have been so bad through four Finals games that it not only […]

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It’s another long Saturday night in the office. Random observations, etc. …
Two posts down is a reprint of a column I did for the Sunday News’ Living section about my kid and his interest in politics and him so looking forward to voting in the primary. Which reminds me: When we actually did walk down […]

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Driving in to work today I heard one of the Mikes say if he was a Spurs fan, he’d feel pretty good about last night all things considered.
Have to disagree. Strongly.
The Spurs got a huge game (30 and 18) from Tim Duncan. Kobe did one of his covert, see-I-don’t-have-to-shoot-all-the-time numbers for a half. The […]

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So Tim Donaghy says relationships among NBA players, coaches and officials have “affected the outcome of games.” This after every radio talk-show host in the (ratings) book has been proclaiming that the league wants a Celtics-Lakers final and presumably the refs will help make that happen.
And now the draft lottery is won by a […]

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The Barnstormers’ season-opening win was impressive for a number of reasons. Two of them: 1. They scored 10 runs while getting nothing from cleanup hitter Matt LeCroy, late of the Minnesota Twins; and, 2. Without overextending starter Zack Parker, who went six innings, they used only three pitchers, all of them effective and none of […]

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I have never seen what others seem to in Don Nelson, the longtime NBA coach regarded by many basketball people as an eccentric near-genius. When Nelson took over the Golden State Warriors last season  and oversaw a modest turnaround and then an impressive defeat of Dallas in the first round of the playoffs, I thought […]

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Occasionally someone asks who I think I’m writing for, what I consider my audience to be. OK, very occasionally, but it has happened. The answer is a person who’s interested in sport for its own sake, not because they went to Penn State or their nephew plays for McCaskey, a person who wants to know, honestly, what the […]

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When Payton Manning played brilliantly but couldn’t get his team over the top in big games, the rap was that individual stuff means nothing, wins are the only thing that matters.
When Eli Manning’s team wins three straight road playoff games to get to the Super Bowl, now the wins don’t validate, and everybody wants to […]

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The Sixers just got their first win of 2008, and yeah it was against dysfunctional, T-Mac-less Houston, but still. And now - what are the odds? - I’m watching the transcendent, “I’m into Nuggets y’all, I’m into Nuggets y’all..”
Now if they’d won at Denver, that would have been perfect. Think about it.
In other news…
*The question […]

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