Check out Metro’s interview with GZA, who is on tour performing seminal album ‘Liquid Swords’ in its entirety.
‘Dark Knight’ plans rerelease (via Pop Candy)
More fall movies coming to the NBA (Cuzoogle)
What If FanHouse Had Its Very Own Large Hadron Collider? (FANHOUSE)
Armored cars for NFL players? (The Shutdown Corner)
Do Not Call Kevin Garnett 7 Foot Tall, Craig Sager (NESW Sports)
Rajon Rondo is back to his blogging ways for Yardbarker – cause he’s been doing some stuff.
Here he is at the ESPYs (…looking like the fifth top)
Kevin Garnett’s loud, loud noises sort of swept this under the rug for the past week.
Suffice to say Scalz makes KG (and his Anything To Be Or Not To Be Possible) look like Churchill.
The creme de le creme of this astonishing display…
We do our defensive philosophy
nothing…nothing?
This is gonna be a series, how could that be?
He totally dominates the point guard position, when he’s a small forward, as well as Rajon (wait, Pierce dominates Rajon how?)
How?
Of course, it doesn’t get really good until the end.
Some foreign soccer reporter reminds Scalabrine that he didn’t even play one little second in the Finals…
In five years, you guys are gonna forget (fair point)
In 10 years, I’ll still be a champion (reasonable, in a cliche sort of way)
In 20 years, I’ll probably tell my kids I started! (Did Scalz just invoke the idea him procreating?)
And in 30 years, I’ll probably tell them I got the MVP!
(Confirming that the intellectual ceiling in the Scalabrine gene pool is as low as you thought it might be)
What. A. Retort.
For my next birthday, all I want is 15 seconds of footage of myself getting the Gatorade shower filmed using the super slow-mo.
Presumably, sometime in the next few days there will be a big bruhaha for the Celtics at Fenway Park.
I put it to you, who will get to throw out the first pitch?
Please find the poll on the side underneath my mug. I’ve nominated the big three, the skip, and the man I believe will have the most free time on his hands.
Now that this NBA business is done with, we can move on to other sports happenings. Like Ana Ivanovic being a babe and being ranked number one at Wimbledon.
Why am i having trouble finding sideline pics of Donald Sutherland from last night’s game? Turns out the guy sleeping next to the Lakers’ chief rabblerouser Jack Nicholson in the front row is actually Lou Adler.
Lou Who? He produced records for Sam Cooke, The Mamas & the Papas and Carole King among others. He also directed Up in Smoke. And apparently him and Nicholson are best pals.
Well, if they’re such great friends, how come Strother Martin snubbed Jack as Tommy Chong’s dad (Arnold Stoner) in UIS?
Now this guy? Smart money says he was sired by Adler (or Drew Carey). Could be any one of Lou’s four youngest sons – Manny, Pablo, Oscar, Ike.
Not especially likely that was Cisco Adler next to Nicholson last night.
So what do we have to look forward to for the game six sideline in Boston on Tuesday? Mistaking somebody from the Scalabrine brood for Michael Rappaport seems realistic.
Here are some game five thoughts from somebody who knows better.
You’re going to be hearing a lot about My Morning Jacket after their sunrise performance at Bonarroo this weekend, trust me.
The C’s snap the Rockets 22-game win streak, and improve their own winning streak to 10.
Early on in the action – the 12:00 minute mark of the first quarter – Rajon Rondo and Rafer Alston had themselves a little scrap.
The Does Paul Pierce have to choak a bitch look is a nice touch.
Houston put up 74 points in the losing effort, and here is a list of the NIT teams that outscored them last night:
Syracuse - 87
Butler – 84
UMASS – 80
Robert Morris - 81
Later on, I’m going liveblog an hour of my IPOD on shuffle; I’m that sickeningly good at my job that I can afford to do this kind of nonsense.
I’ve got somewhere in the range of 5,000 songs, and to be honest there is some creepy, creepy shit on there. Should be an interesting mix.
You can follow me on twitter if you’d like. I’ll post a recap of highlight on here too.
Down 22 at one point in the first half, the Celtics stormed back last night to defeat the San Antonio Spurs 93-91. Rajon Rondo had his best game of the year, scoring 20; and, important to note, he finally added an RSS feed to his yardbarker blog.
A little over a week ago, I made my deep seething hatred for Tony Parker known on this blog. Since then, the Spurs are 2-6; and the defending champs have dipped to sixth in the West.
(Chris Paul, Kobe, Mormons…you’re welcome)In all seriousness, I’m a Celtics fan first and a Tony Parker foe second. And the Celtics face a Rockets team tonight that has won 22 straight.
Ah geez, I’ll guess I’ll just have to arbitrarily pick someone to berate on that team as well.
Looking up and down the roster, there’s a lot of likeable guys on this team. Shane Battier is probably the only Dukie in the history of the school that I can stand behind. Rafer Alston might be the feel good story of the year. I remember booking some radio interviews during the preseason with Tracy McGrady where T-Mac made a point to alert everyone that Rafer looked like one of the best guys in camp and was gunning for the starting point guard job.
Speaking of my past working relationship with McGrady, it was tumultuous at best. Nine out 10 sports PR people can give you an example why NBA players are the hardest athletes to work with, and McGrady would be mine. However, I’m truly happy that the guy has managed to stay reasonably healthy this year and is having a great season.
…Oh, oops, there he is!
Steve Francis is a punk. When he was on the Knicks, a friend of mine who worked for the organization told me that shortly after Francis came to the team he insisted on being called The City, and would refer to himself as The City in the third person. I’d love to add onto this that he has a blistering hot girlfriend or wife (making him an easy target for me), but the only romantic info I can find links him to Cuttino Mobley, which is funny enough in and of itself.
Here is what I think is going to happen…Francis is going to have a big game tonight. Parker had 17 points, eight assists, and five boards last night. Point being, the only thing better than tanking and your team losing is when you produce and they still lose.
It’s all the more better because Francis has pretty much sucked it up all year (5 points, 3 assists, like 17 turnovers I’m sure).
My prediction: Houston keeps it close thanks to Francis’ hot hand from behind the arc…and then they lose by double digits, bong!
