A Couple of Grinds to Axe
What really grinds us here in the 'Pent? Read on...
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Non-Sports:
Ryan Gosling of "Half Nelson": Please, more Jack Nicholson post "Easy Rider", and not Diego Luna post "Y Tu Mama, Tambien" (sorry to point a finger, but man, what is going on?).
The Oscar nomination for Best Actor is certainly well deserved, but ya gotta lot of films to make in the next six or seven decades. Please make them count: "Next." "Next." etc.
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Sports:
Note to media...
Please, please: No more talk about how today's young basketball players need to learn to shoot Kareem's Sky-Hook. Not another word.
That shot was a magnificent and unique artform that only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in the history of the sport, has mastered. The story goes that he, as a youngster, found that shooting a one-step hook was the easiest way to get the ball anywhere close to the basket. It just happened, and Kareem used it to score more points than any player who ever lived.
Try it sometime. One step, if that. One hand. It's friggin' impossible to shoot it quickly, with accuracy, while using the off hand to ward off shot blockers.
Kareem's Sky-Hook may be the most beautiful piece of showmanship in the game's history, because no one before or since has done it.
Nobody.
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Non-Sports:
Just about the most widely read columnist in New England, Dan Shaugnessy, wrote an article Tuesday titled, "Hit is part of the game" on how the Patriots QB deserves to get slammed for what he did or did not do in his personal life. The rest of "The Globe" is full of "news" about what the guy did or didn't do. "The Herald" probably has covered the heck out of it as well. Not that we would know.
But come on now.
Just cuz yu jealous don't make it a-right.
He may be extremely average looking with sometimes questionable choices in hairstyle, be a Michigan "grad", and still look wicked skinny, but he's a person who has publicly treated one and all with tremendous respect. The guy is great.
We wondered what was going on too, at first. Just like anyone would. Who doesn't enjoy a juicy bit of gossip? But let it gooooooo.
One day's coverage, maybe two, is enough.
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Sports:
Tommy Heinsohn has 392 comments on his MySpace page to answer (individually, a la Cuban Mark?).
Man, Tom. What exactly do you do with your time? Paint? Broadcast?
Maybe there's a staff person at The-Best-Damn-Sports-Channel that could give these folks answers to their questions/comments. And maybe recommend some music, too.
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Non-Sports:
"Grosse Point" is one funny and fairly priced DVD.
Much like the amazing first "Brady Bunch" movie, the actors in this have not appeared in much since. But the 17 episodes that Darren Star and his cast and crew produced are classics. Laugh out loud funny.
And the best kind of satire: Everybody gets it in the end.
Awesome.
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Non-Sports:
Ryan Gosling of "Half Nelson": Please, more Jack Nicholson post "Easy Rider", and not Diego Luna post "Y Tu Mama, Tambien" (sorry to point a finger, but man, what is going on?).
The Oscar nomination for Best Actor is certainly well deserved, but ya gotta lot of films to make in the next six or seven decades. Please make them count: "Next." "Next." etc.
------------------------------------
Sports:
Note to media...
Please, please: No more talk about how today's young basketball players need to learn to shoot Kareem's Sky-Hook. Not another word.
That shot was a magnificent and unique artform that only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in the history of the sport, has mastered. The story goes that he, as a youngster, found that shooting a one-step hook was the easiest way to get the ball anywhere close to the basket. It just happened, and Kareem used it to score more points than any player who ever lived.
Try it sometime. One step, if that. One hand. It's friggin' impossible to shoot it quickly, with accuracy, while using the off hand to ward off shot blockers.
Kareem's Sky-Hook may be the most beautiful piece of showmanship in the game's history, because no one before or since has done it.
Nobody.
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Non-Sports:
Just about the most widely read columnist in New England, Dan Shaugnessy, wrote an article Tuesday titled, "Hit is part of the game" on how the Patriots QB deserves to get slammed for what he did or did not do in his personal life. The rest of "The Globe" is full of "news" about what the guy did or didn't do. "The Herald" probably has covered the heck out of it as well. Not that we would know.
But come on now.
Just cuz yu jealous don't make it a-right.
He may be extremely average looking with sometimes questionable choices in hairstyle, be a Michigan "grad", and still look wicked skinny, but he's a person who has publicly treated one and all with tremendous respect. The guy is great.
We wondered what was going on too, at first. Just like anyone would. Who doesn't enjoy a juicy bit of gossip? But let it gooooooo.
One day's coverage, maybe two, is enough.
-----------------------------------
Sports:
Tommy Heinsohn has 392 comments on his MySpace page to answer (individually, a la Cuban Mark?).
Man, Tom. What exactly do you do with your time? Paint? Broadcast?
Maybe there's a staff person at The-Best-Damn-Sports-Channel that could give these folks answers to their questions/comments. And maybe recommend some music, too.
-----------------------------------
Non-Sports:
"Grosse Point" is one funny and fairly priced DVD.
Much like the amazing first "Brady Bunch" movie, the actors in this have not appeared in much since. But the 17 episodes that Darren Star and his cast and crew produced are classics. Laugh out loud funny.
And the best kind of satire: Everybody gets it in the end.
Awesome.
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