Intangibles come with sense of deja vu
IF THE NFL draft is a highly anticipated chess tournament featuring a room full of Grand Masters, the NBA draft is a Rubik’s Cube contest at an elementary school picnic.- 9:53 AM
WELCOME TO THE birthday party for my 2-year-old. I want all loyal Guesspert readers to know you’re invited to peek at it any time day or night, especially if I’m changing it at 3 in the morning.
IF THE NFL draft is a highly anticipated chess tournament featuring a room full of Grand Masters, the NBA draft is a Rubik’s Cube contest at an elementary school picnic.- 9:53 AM
THE NEXT TIME you complain there’s nothing good on television, keep in mind what the networks are feeding you. For example, this week NBC agreed to extend its television contract with Notre Dame football through 2015.- 11:39 PM
TALK ABOUT TURNAROUNDS. Here’s one astonishing fact I’m still trying to wrap my mind around for these NBA Finals.- 11:08 PM
WHETHER THE ATLANTA Braves reach the postseason or not, this is shaping up as an historic year for Chipper Jones. At age 36, the lifetime .310 hitter has been hovering above .400 all season. You won’t find a lot of TV shouting heads betting their mortgage that he’ll end the season above .400, but it’s been a good storyline to follow this far.- 9:29 AM
IS ANYONE GOING to be able to stop Kobe Bryant and the Lakers from winning the NBA Finals? OK, maybe they’ll get kidnapped by the aliens from the new Indiana Jones movie. But even then, I’d bet Phil Jackson would be able to figure out some mystical wavelength they share, and the aliens would deliver them to the Staples Center in plenty of time for the morning shootaround.- 11:51 PM
WOULD YOU TRADE away one preseason NFL game in exchange for a 17th regular season game? I’m sure some of you would trade one lung for extra NFL action.- 10:14 PM
IT’S NEVER A good idea to steal joke routines from successful comedians, but this one was just too good to pass up. There was an auto race last night whose name begged to be turned into a Jeff Foxworthy joke.- 8:55 PM
HEY, HAVE A blast tonight if you head to Darlington to see tonight’s big race. You know why the race is not run on Sunday, of course. NASCAR does not roll on Mother’s Day. It’s a tradition.- 12:59 AM
Let me tell you how my A+ blood and my F-minus diet help humanity.
- 10:15 AMLYING AROUND MY house are the typical array of late-summer fantasy football magazines. But this year I’m not terribly interested in studying up on them.- 9:59 PM