Help me. Help me find a reason to hate this…

Right now – assuming that slow-motion replay indeed legitimized that Dicky V shot – I kind of like this.

Note: This is not Singler’s first time showing off his love of “getting buckets”.

We know, Singler. We know you and your brother used your phenomenal trick shot skills to go on to beat that poor local news reporter with an unfortunate developmental situation in one arm in HORSE.

Damn you, Singler.

Breaking: Duke Basketball Player Does Something Tolerable (Deadspin)

Easily the best performance in recent times by an athlete with a truly unfortunate name. University of Kentucky guard, Jodie Meeks, dropped 54 points last night, going 10-15 from behind the arc, to lead the Wildcats to a 90-72 victory over Tennessee.

Jodie as in Jodie, the name for females. Meeks as in meek – or docile, submissive, milquetoast. Or Meeks, as in Steven “me and Meeksy are working on a hi-fi system” Meeks from Dead Poets Society.

Frankly, the name Sheryl Miller sounds tougher to me, but there’s no denying that this guy got it done. Check out the highlights:

(c/o Sports by Brooks)

Here are 12 movies screening at Sundance that you should know about (via Pop Candy)
Darius Miles Stuffs Himself (Blaze of Love)
The Most Important Conversation Ever…Continued (Sharapova’s Thigh)
Sblog Tweets Promotes Sports Bloggers Content (The World According to MoonDog)
KSK Suicide Pools: And Then There Was One (Kissing Suzy Kolber)
Scott Pioli Takes the Chiefs GM Job (Barstool Sports)
Snowboarder Owned By Table (Phil Knows Best)
Seattle: Where Banging Your Students Is Totally Kosher (Brahsome)
Kate Hudson’s ass is still talking to me (on205th Magazine)
Giants’ Fans Unleash Verbal Abuse On Eagles’ Fans (Busted Coverage)

Each Wednesday, I post a weekly update to the digest “If You Had Money”, which shows the sporting goods and memorabilia you could purchase if disposable income was no longer a thing of the past. Each week, it will inevitably leave you wanting…

Before we get into it, let me remind you that the government owes you mmmmmmonney.

Now, our most scandalous investment opportunity yet…

(more…)

The people running the show in Beijing are doing a remarkably good job at making me believe it is going to be difficult to function as a visiting athlete, media member, spectator, or mobilized protester at the Olympics next month.

Part of this foreign relations problem is the nonchalant approach China is taking towards translating, well, anything.

Not to worry though, folks, Yao has got you covered!

You can pick-up The Tao of Yao for just $1.50 USD on EBAY. And then rest assured that the tattoo you get says Champion…instead of Moo Goo Gai Pan.

With Wes Snipes facing some hard time (three years), I figured it was appropriate to post something from his best film that isn’t Major League.

Raymond is actually played by ex-NBA player and UCLA star Marques Johnson.

I don’t believe that he had much of a pro career.

…and you heard it here first, Snipes will be out in nine months.

This is ridiculous.

He’s even already predicting the last four in and the last four out.

F#$king Lunardo.

At least he’s got UCONN grabbing a two seed

You just got downgraded to supremely massive on my “how massive of tool is Joe Lunardi” scale.

628 comments on this garbage too; you people have way too much free time on your hands.

Weekends, like large breasts, never get old.

I’ve been drinking this bottled water lately.

Found it in Rite Aid, it’s called Crystal Geyser, because Salty Mineral Stream was just too darn pornographic.

Cost me a buck and a half for a liter and a half – bo-nice!

By the way, I’ve been working in Soho, the shopping douche capital of New York City, for a little over a month now, and I’ve only been in one store that wasn’t an eatery, Rite Aid.

I think there actually is a store down here called shoes for douches.

Someone’s got to say it, Garfield minus Garfield is completely unfunny.

??????

This blog claims that if you remove Garfield from all the comic strips, John Arbuckle comes off like a hilarious schizo because its all jovially nonsensical.

False. Just because you remove something from something and now it doesn’t make any damn sense doesn’t make it cleverly schizophrenic…It makes it retarded.

Garfield minus Garfield guy, if we were at a dinner party together. I’d get up from the table, thank you for the chivas, and politely ask you to leave.

…and if we met in a dark alley, and I could ensure no legal ramifications whatsoever, I’d unleash the beating of a lifetime on thy.

Debuting a new feature next week called – The Hotness Binge. Let that marinate with ya for a moment.

I’ve got four of eight Elite Eight teams correct, with a chance to pick up a dastardly perfect eight for eight tonight. Here are my dream picks for tonight’s games:

• Wisconsin over Davidson
• Kansas over Villanova
• Memphis over Michigan St.
• Texas over Stanford

If you think that West Virginia is going to beat Xavier tonight, then we can be friends.

I actually picked Xavier (beating Duke) when I filled out my bracket. The two main reasons I think I left WVU out of this equation:

1.) Bob Huggins is just one of those people I look at and hate for no apparent reason. I don’t think we’d be friends in real life.

2.) I was still bitter about Joe Alexander handling UCONN in the Big East Tournament.

Alexander put up 34, and made Conn’s Stanley Robinson look like a herb, in WVU’s dismantling of the Huskies. And Alexander has been on blistering tear ever since.

Most recently, he scored 22 in the Yokels upset of Duke. And we have reason to believe that the Alexander of late (20+ points in six of his last eight games) will show up tonight against Xavier.

At 6′ 8”, 200+ pounds, and whiter than a Trader Joe’s Wine Shop, does Joe Alexander have NBA potential?

NBA Draft Express has him going #18 in the first round of this year’s NBA Draft, ahead of such notables as Stanford’s Robin Lopez, Memphis’ Chris Douglas-Roberts and UCONN’s Hasheem “Good Riddance Thabeet.

NBA Draft.net doesn’t have him getting picked this year, presumably because they don’t think he’ll come out (a definite possibility). They compare Alexander to Tom Gugliotta on his profile page, and they have him listed in the top-10 (#6 overall) picks in the 2009 draft.

In terms of build, he’s best compared to his vanilla compatriots Tyler Hansbrough and Kevin Love. Alexander has shown evidence of a more superior outside game than Hansbrough and Love, but he definitely (without question) gives something up to these other two phenoms in terms of post play.

On a side note, you throw the Lopez brothers into the mix, and we’re looking at one of the finest white boy drafts that I can remember. And as soon as I figure out how to do it without coming off like an overt racist, I’ll post about this.

Call me a sucker for being too high on a guy’s recent performance, but is Shane Battier or Tayshawn Prince too high of a ceiling for Alexander?

I think if a team spent a first round pick and got that in return, they’d consider it a success.

To be fair, before this season Alexander averaged just over 10 ppg. I also can’t help but be reminded another recent West Virginian who had a late season surge and a gutsy NCAA tournament performance – Mike Gansey – who saw himself go undrafted in 2005.

However, if I’m Alexander, I’d come out now while the stock is high and hope I get hooked up with a competitive team where there’s less pressure and more room to grow. Plus with Kevin Love inevitably going much higher in the draft, he shouldn’t have to worry about shouldering too much of white doofus burden.

At the risk of sounding overly conservative, I think Alexander becomes a formidable six-man in the NBA.

Great article from the NYT’s Pete Thamel on Alexander

What the hell is going on over here?

I wouldv’e taken Emmanuelle Chiriqui with the points, teased up in this match-up, and I did in fact predict she’d carry 95% of the vote.

Right now, she’s only carrying a 54 to 46 percent lead? Against a MySpace girl? Are you kidding me?!

And, what exactly is wrong with these people? Don Chavez, against their better judgment, deemed this girl NOT hot, and she’s only received a 3+ star rating.

To clarify, that girl is definitely hot. And furthermore, there are several people, whom I consider friends, that I would off for a chance to get with Emmanuelle.

My picks for tonight’s games:

• Xavier over West Virginia
• UCLA over Western Kentucky
• Louisville over Tennessee
• North Carolina thrubbing Washington St.

Man, it’s been a rough go for me of late.

First, my bracket goddess – Antea Supervista – left me over the weekend for this guy:

WE’VE GOT ALL EIGHT ELITE EIGHT TEAMS LEFT BABY!

I’m a mess without her.

Then, these tattered pictures of my girl Eva popped up on The Daily Mail (via With Leather)

However, things are looking up. Baseball season herself is less than 14 hours away. And I intend to be at the bar at 6 a.m. to kick it off.

Red Sox vs. Oakland, Tuesday Morning, 6:00 a.m. EST, ESPN2