And a wholly unnecessary Emanuelle Chriqui photo.
+ Lenny Dykstra's high end mag for pro athletes is stuck in legal/ monetary disputes, as former Ram defensive back Ryan McNeil's is. That "Nails never fails" article in the New Yorker is getting old already. Move it to the "fiction" section, people.
+ More of a peek into the private life of Marvin Harrison after the shooting near a bar that he owns.
+ Mike D'Antoni is the Knicks coach! Holy Crapcakes!
The beauty of NYC is such that the first article I read is "Bringing in Mike D'Antoni wrong move for the Knicks". And it may be true, if only for the dead wood on the roster that needs to be dumped. This article is a little wrong though; the roster is missing a credible point guard, for certain, but the idea that the Suns put up good shots all the time because of their IQ is questionable. Their speed and spacing allowed them to get good looks early in the offense, and unlike other basketball coaches, D'Antoni has no problem with early shots. Jamal Crawford loves to take jumpers with 20 seconds left on the shot clock! He'll be a freaking natural! (I'm not joking. I actually think that Nate Robinson and Crawford might be good in this system. Starbury, however, needs to be bought out.)
Though D'Antoni would have KILLED with the Bulls' roster, no doubt. But they would never play defense, and GM Paxson wanted assurances that there would be defense played at the United Center.
+ Yesterday I glanced at the score of the Mets game and.. what the hot hell? It's Oliver Perez' good day! Which ended with a bad hiccup. From the Journal News:
The unsolved mystery that is Oliver Perez was back on display yesterday at Shea Stadium. There he was, sweeping breaking balls past the lefty bats of Adam Dunn and Joey Votto. There he was firing five innings of one-hit ball. Yet there he was giving up three runs in the sixth.
Suddenly, it was a Day at the Improv. He dropped his arm lower, trying to change speeds because he was tiring. It turned out to be a wild pitch, skipping past Brian Schneider to allow one of the runs to score. Perez also surprised the Reds with a bunt single. Before that, he walked and stole second.
"How crazy are you, Ollie?" manager Willie Randolph playfully asked, turning toward the 26-year-old lefty entering the interview room. "Do you have a full deck? They want to know. Inquiring minds want to know. I'll take you anyway. I'll tell you what, you can play on my team any day."
Perez is good. Perez is bad. Sometimes in the same game. Good luck predicting the unpredictable. But after throwing three straight losing duds, the Mets will take the three-run, three-hit, eight-strikeout, four-walk, one-hit-batter work he gave them over six innings in beating Cincinnati 8-3 in the rubber game of the series.
+ Meanwhile, like me, Mets' minor leaguer Fernando Martinez is allergic to lobster.
+ Uni Watch has lots of the Mother's Day pink paraphernalia 
that MLB players and umps rocked.
+ Cablevision is buying Newsday? Isn't there a limit to local media synergies? I guess not.
Will Long Island become one giant Cablevision bubble, where Jim Dolan is a cuddly teddy bear and the Knicks are everyone's favorite? If I want to reach Long Island... will I have to go through Dolan? Will he manage Long Island's media future?
+ The Devil Rays are winning baseball games? What is this world coming to?
+ Florida State player plans to play all 9 positions in today's game. If the game goes extra innings, he should offer to umpire the game, just to add another layer of gimmick.
+ The 4 armed robbers accused of killing safety Sean Taylor will not face the death penalty.
+ One Droo Hill makes edits to the United Countries of Baseball region map, which was perhaps influenced by this unscientific but interesting attempt from 2007. The map does not reflect certain sports teams that roll deep in every city they go to like the Yank-These and Mets.