Several weeks ago, I was talking about Mad Men with my sister, and I made a joke about how the show was going to end with the "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" commercial, then cut to Matthew Weiner's nameplate.

I'm going to play devil's advocate and make an argument that I don't necessarily agree with, yet think makes a fair point. There's a trend in all youth sports (not just basketball) becoming more of a year-round commitment and requiring extensive travel for leagues that is pricing out kids from lower-income families,…

Wastbrook can play both ways, though; he can be a one-man offensive powerhouse if he wants to (or has to, like most of this past season), but he also can seamlessly fall into the traditional point guard role when Durant is on the floor. The players of that archetype who came along in the 1990s and early 2000s were…

I'm pretty sure Steve Nash played a big role in Canada's emergence as a basketball power, also.

Incidentally, David Stern implementing a dress code sparked a seismic shift in the opposite direction, to the point that a young black man dressing like Allen Iverson, circa 2000, is profoundly uncool. Before then, I think a stigma existed where a non-rich person dressing well meant he's gay, and that perception is…

I fully acknowledge that the hate toward the kind of game Iverson personified is unjust, considering he was undoubtedly the best at it. Plus, "The Answer" is a much less douchy nickname than "Starbury" or "Stevie Franchise," to name two players who never deserved those monikers.

I was not a fan of Iverson, but his image had very little to do with it. He was the epitome of the post-Jordan style of basketball where teams had one superstar who held the ball 95 percent of the time, and four other players who stood around the perimeter watching him. That kind of basketball was hard to watch, and…

My favorite sports movie will always be "Hoosiers," but my God, is it saddled by perhaps the most inappropriate film score of all time. It gets all the visual details of small-town Indiana in the early 1950s down perfectly, yet Jerry Goldsmith provides a synth-dominated soundtrack that will forever trace the…

Or else you discover mid-episode that your favorite children's author was a raging anti-Semite, as Ben Schwartz did.

Wrong war.

If you somehow have never seen it before, click here: http://youtu.be/0wCOuLZmt1c

Why now? Why not ten years ago?

The Beach Boys were the definition of "Reagan Cool."

They also ran a Muppet video of Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy."

On that same note, for some reason, I remember a sitcom starring Ed Asner as a retired race car driver once came on after Full House. Am I remembering correctly, or am I deluded?

I discovered that the lead singer of my favorite band re-emerged for the first time in several years at a small-town festival in Canada a couple of weeks ago, causing me to get my hopes up on some sort of comeback in the future.

But they do have Katie Nolan, who is awesome.

Unfortunately, the Goans are also responsible for Dinesh D'Souza.

The Portuguese had their own little corner for themselves, too. In fact that's where Ms. Pinto is from, if you were ever curious as to why she has a decidedly not Indian-sounding name.

All of the trendy burger joints in Atlanta have been switching their condiments over to a company called "Sir Kensington's." Its origin story is total BS, but all-natural, no-HFCS-added is their thing, and I can't tell it apart from other ketchups or mustards.