- Miguel Cabrera was arrested late Wednesday night on a DUI charge in Florida.... the Tigers slugger (and one of the top 10 players in baseball) has a checkered past with alcohol mostly centered on a domestic dispute last year, and has since claimed to be past alcohol issues... this is a giant blow for him and the Tigers even if he avoids legal matters altogether simply because they owe him $20 million a year, and he can't stay out of trouble for alcohol.... problem levels...
- Carmelo news!.... Or.. "news" shall we say... the Nets are reportedly back in the mix... The principals pretty much have to be the same (Harris, Favors, picks, etc.) simply because I don't see them shipping Brook Lopez, and they don't have any additional attractive assets... just an FYI though... this thing isn't near over for anyone...
- NBA Check - Cleveland knocks off the Lakers... yes, CLEVELAND KNOCKS OFF THE LAKERS!... 3 straight losses for LA including the embarrassing blowout to Charlotte, the ineptness against Orlando, and now this... pretty chaotic for LAL... on Cleveland's end, Ramon Sessions exploded for 32, and the Cavs got their season-best win... congrats to them... Dwight Howard throws up a 32/10 in only 29 minutes in a blowout win over hapless Washington... one note on the Wiz.. anytime you can have Cartier Martin and Josh Howard's corpse shoot a combined 3 of 23... you have to do it... to the Hawks... 102-90 loss in NY last night... good things first... all 5 starters in double figures, 50% 3-point shooting... now the bad... Josh Smith shooting 9 jump shots (and 6-16 FGs), Jeff Teague playing only 4 minutes despite the team being +6 while he was out there, shooting 2/3, and being the only person on the team capable of staying in front of Ray Felton... I could go for days... but I won't... I need the All-Star break for the Hawks... Blake Griffin and Kevin Love faced off last night... Griffin won the team battle and put up 29 points... Love put up a typically ridiculous 18/18 and continued his double-double streak... ho-hum... Philadelphia might be good... 24-16 in their last 40 games... and another nice road win in Houston last night...
- College Hoops Nuggets - Purdue knocked off Wisconsin in W. Lafayette... the Boilers are still undefeated at home, and JaJuan Johnson (20 pts, 10 rebs, 4 blocks) is a beast... UConn righted the ship a bit against Georgetown... holding serve at home behind Kemba Walker's 31... and #22 Saint Mary's caught a very unexpected loss last night in San Diego to the 6-21 Toreros... uh.... no idea...
- Toronto Blue Jay slugger Jose Bautista to sign a 5-year, 65 million dollar extension... man, that seems like a lot... he led the MLB in homers with 54 last year, which is obviously a ridiculous output, but it seems very bust-possible... in their defense however, he's been consistently mashing since a swing change mid-season in 2009...
What to watch for Thursday... AND for the rest of the weekend (in case the internet fails me)...
Thursday:
- Spurs @ Bulls - 8:00 TNT - Chicago has the East's best record against the West... Spurs on the rodeo trip... this is a great matchup...
- Mavs @ Suns - 10:30 TNT - Dirk vs. Nash...
- Washington State @ #13 Arizona - 8:30 FSN - Zona is the Pac-10's best right now... but Wazzu is a threat on any given night...
- Richmond @ #25 Temple - 7:00 CBS College Sports - If you have the network (I don't, sigh), this is two tourney teams from the A-10 squaring off...
Friday:
- #12 UConn @ #16 Louisville - 9:00 ESPN - A randomly good friday night college game... enjoy it...
- NBA All-Star Rookie Challenge - 9:00 TNT - Rookie/Soph game... if you the all-star game is frenetic... you haven't seen anything yet....
Saturday:
- NBA All-Star Saturday Night - 8:30 TNT - Worth the watch just to see what Jevale McGee, Blake Griffin, and Demar Derozan come up with...
- #4 Pitt @ St. John's - Noon ESPN - the Johnnies are definitely capable of giant-killing with 5 top-15 wins already this year, but I remain in the camp that Pitt is the class of the Big East...
- #7 Notre Dame @ West Virginia - 1:00 CBS - Another nice Big East matchup... I've admittedly not seen enough of ND, but seems to be a disciplined, talented team...
- Washington @ #13 Arizona - 6:00 ESPN - a rare Pac-10 game on the worldwide leader... pitting the 2 most talented (and best) teams in the Pac-10...
- #24 Utah State @ #23 St. Mary's - 9:00 ESPN2 - This one lost a little luster with the Gaels loss on Wednesday, but two criminally underrated small conference teams... Utah State is legit...
Sunday:
- NBA All-Star Game - 8:00 TNT - All the bells and whistles...
- #3 Ohio State @ #11 Purdue - 1:00 CBS - Awesome Big 10 game... about as evenly matched as it gets with it being at Purdue...
- Georgia Tech @ #5 Duke - 7:45 FSN - Georgia Tech is cover your eyes bad... watch at your own peril...
Enjoy the weekend folks...
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