This article was uncalled for. It should have waited until after the last of the new Avatars come out, when it would have been “The 160 Most Memorable Quotes From All the Avatars”.

Steve Scott was the best American miler back in the 70's/80's. He was also a good amateur golfer. He once completed an 18-hole round of golf in something like half an hour by running between strokes and carrying only a driver and a putter. That should be the Summer Olympics version of the Winter Olympic’s biathlon.

Don’t tell my wife this, but I feel this way about folding laundry. There is chaos, then I apply order. I work at home and will often hold off doing laundry until I have stressful work-related problem to work out. Put that aside for a moment, go fold two loads of laundry into neat piles, then return to the work…

I have Magic, the Logo, Kareem, Kobe, and Baylor, in that order.

I’m old; I saw Jerry West play. He was better than Kobe because, like Jordan and Russell, he made his teammates better and didn’t need to dominate the ball to be effective. He was as good or better defensively then Kobe, was a better passer and rebounder. Kobe was probably/maybe a better scorer, but its real close.…

I’m kind of sure this didn’t happen, but as I was watching the Warrior’s game last night, I was keeping up with Kobe’s game on my ESPN app, and at the point where the Warrior’s pulled their starters I thought to myself “Kobe now knows the only way he’s the top story on SportsCenter over the Warriors winning 73 behind…

I would argue that Curry’s performance was NOT a pursuit of a personal record. The Warriors are a great team in part because Curry shoots threes like just about anyone not named Kobe shoots twos. It’s like watching Superman bench press: seeing him blow out 8 plates on either side of the bar blows our mind because…

Yes, I’m commenting on my own comment.

I kind of hate the hagiography of Bryant that has gone on over the last season. He was a great player, a fierce competitor, the first or second best player on 5 NBA champions; he will be a deserved first-ballot HOFer. But he wasn’t at the same level as Jordan, Russell, or LeBron. He was Vince Carter with better teams;…

Yeah, and he got into Duke because he had a rich and successful relative. From a Duke standpoint, that’s merit.

“the Kings coaching staff didn’t even know that Boogie Cousins wasn’t playing until they couldn’t find him on the plane.”

Well, on the positive side, those two have nowhere to go but up. Or the liquor store.

Our kids all have Irish names, but we didn’t go so far as spelling them in Gaelic (where “John” might be “Jdbharnhaling”). We did, however, go with the Gaelic spelling of our second daughter’s middle name,
“Maire”, which, as you probably guessed, is the Irish form of “Mary”. A lot of people tried to correct our…

What it means is that the NBA’s eligibility rule is an idiotic and unlawful restraint on trade. Actually, it doesn’t matter what nuance you point to; they all come back to that conclusion.

I saw the Ochefu take the mop from the kid and thought he was just being nice. I didn’t put it together with what happened until now. Nicely done.

Disclosure: I’m a Niners fan and am also not very smart (currently, those two things go together like a top and a bottom). Having said that, I have got to believe that Kaepernick realizes staying with the 49ers, with all his money and with Chip Kelly, is a far smarter career move than taking less to be the focus of a…

One of the best bits on last night’s SNL was Kenan Thompson doing Big Papi discussing his post-baseball ventures:

That’s a good point (and may have been the point Sam Eifling was trying to make). I’m guessing that had freshman been eligible, UCLA would have still had a few classes that went 4-4 in championships, but this year’s UConn seniors will be the first to actually accomplish that feat.

No semi-major-revenue sport has a talent disparity like women’s basketball, which is really shocking. No other sport I can think of has a top-tier consisting of one team. Tonight’s Villanova/Oklahoma game was the exception that proves the rule: once you get out of the first round of games, the men’s tournament rarely…

As an old guy, I’d like to clarify Sam’s accounting of the historical record.