:EDUCATED IN THE WEST

So after six years, the truth is now finally coming out. After six years during which I, and many others, have been decrying the injustice perpetrated against the fine city of Sacramento by the National “Basketball” Association, we finally have some inside confirmation that game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference finals was fixed [...]

The latest issue of Vogue is causing a bit of a stir. The cover photograph, taken by Annie Leibowitz, features precocious NBA superstar Lebron James (aka “King James”) and Brazilian supermodel and Tom Brady plaything Gisele Bundchen.
More than a few journalists, bloggers and random social commentators have made note of the perceived racial undertones [...]

For the first time this year, the Kings had their big three–Ron Artest, Kevin Martin and Mike Bibby–in the starting line up.  What was the result?  How about:

There’s in a “new” sheriff in the Western Conference now.  All the raping, philandering, on-court thuggery and unjustified arrogance perpetrated by a certain team, its slow-walkin’, bent-ass orangutan [...]

Hey, sports fans.  If you haven’t seen it yet, check out this amazing game-ending play by Div. III Trinity U. (San Antonio, TX) last weekend.  It’s, I guess, a sixty-yard pass play, but with fifteen laterals.  Check out the opposing player at the bottom left of the screen at about 1:19.  It looks like he [...]

The Bee is reporting that Eric Musselman may be out as Kings head coach after just one season on the bench.  Wow, that would be bad.  The Kings had a top-tier coach with Adelman and decided not to pursue Don Nelson during last year’s off season.  Now they’re a lottery team.  Well, I think Tarkanian’s [...]

Does the name Chad Rowan mean anything to you? Does it sound at least a bit familiar? Well, most of you probably haven’t heard that name before. Chad Rowan is the birth name of the first non-Japanese to ever hold the rank of yokozuna or “Grand Champion” in the Japanese sport of [...]

Okay, by now everyone has heard that Tim Hardaway went on national TV and declared himself to be homophobic (”I hate gays,” he said). He added that he would never play with a gay team mate. This was in response to a new book by former NBA center John Amaechi in which he [...]

It was reported today on SI.com (Sports Illustrated’s website) that St. Louis Cardinals’ slugger Albert Pujols scored a “perfect 100″ on his citizenship exam. What a joke. I don’t know why the Associated Press (the source of the story) is taking this approach, because, as all my regular readers know, the U.S. citizenship [...]

First off, congratulations to the Indianapolis Colts for their victory in Super Bowl XLI over the Chicago Bears. And congratulations to Tony Dungy for becoming something like the 24th “Christian” coach to win the Super Bowl and the first to openly support the Indiana Family Institute. Kudos are also in order for Colts [...]

The LA Times reports:
Free-agent forward Chris Webber and the Lakers took another step toward each other Thursday, with Webber’s agent saying his client was highly interested in heading west, and the Lakers acknowledging they were more than willing to listen. [Link]

I can check off another one those “things to do in Southern California” on my list now. That’s because this weekend I attended the USC-UCLA game at the Rose Bowl. It was the first UCLA game that I’ve attended and it was my first time at the Rose Bowl, UCLA’s home stadium in [...]

Well, well. It seems that I’ll be attending my first USC football game in quite some time. Yes, after witnessing the Trojans pump and dump the overrated Fighting Irish of Notre Dame by three touchdowns on Saturday, I’ll be in Pasadena this weekend to watch the Men of Troy try to wrap up [...]

I’m quite sad that Rick Adelman’s contract to coach the Sacramento Kings was not renewed. While he was maligned in his last couple of years as the coach, it seems that most fans have rallied around the erstwhile Kings leader at the moment. Great sentiment, everyone, but it’s too late. Now the city [...]