- Kevin Love added as the Yao Ming injury replacement... you know where I stand... justice was served here... but on the other hand, it's still kind of crazy that Lamarcus Aldridge and Steve Nash are chillin at home while Ray Allen and Joe Johnson play in the all-star game... alas...
- NBA Box Score Check - Dwight Howard put up a 22/15 in Gilbert Arenas' return to DC... Orlando beat up on them 110-92... Dwyane Wade had a triple-double with 22/12/10 in Miami's 109-97 road win over Charlotte... Lebron had a ho-hum 19/8/9 and was close to having dueling trip-dubs.... crazy... Cleveland has lost 23 straight... tying the NBA record, and they did so despite a career night from JJ Hickson who contributed 31 and 15 to the cause... career high 28 for Nene tonight in the loss for Denver... he's still vastly underrated... but 28/10 from Jefferson and 26/12 from D. Williams was too much from Utah... shout-out to Raja Bell as well, who put up 20 huge points and played 41 minutes for the Jazz...
- The Hawks game gets its own section.... Jamal Crawford went nuts in the 3rd quarter (and finished with 34 points) keying a 26-point in 5:30 outburst that gave the Hawks the lead they'd hold onto for dear life... Al Horford knocked down 2 FTs with 0.6 seconds to go for the victory, on a "flagrant" foul by Blake Griffin... I'm very, very glad Horford knocked the FTs down simply because it was an egregious missed call on Griffin... he was whistled for a flagrant foul and it wasn't close (copyright: James)... at any rate, a nice home win for the Hawks thanks to Horford (23 and 12), Crawford, and company...
Other stuff...
- Maurkice Pouncey and Aaron Smith ruled out for the Steelers in the Super Bowl... huge blows on both lines of scrimmage for the Steelers... could change my pick a bit... check out the SB preview post later in the day...
- Vlad Guerrero signs a 1-year, $8 million deal with Baltimore... they suddenly have a ton of right-handed power in Baltimore, it's a shame they don't have any established pitching...
- Sam Bradford and Chaos N. Suh (lol) named the NFL rookies of the year... no surprises here... Bradford was as polished as you ever see a rookie QB, and Suh was dominant from the jump...
What to watch for on a busy Saturday...
- West Virginia @ #12 Villanova - ESPN Noon - Big East hoops with the noon tips.... fantastic
- #11 Kentucky @ #23 Florida - ESPN 9:00 - Gameday is in Gainesville for the battle for SEC supremacy...
- Hawks @ Wizards - NBA TV and SportSouth 7:00 - Back-to-back for the Hawks and a road trip to boot... not a great spot as Washington is a decent home team (13-11)...
- Memphis @ Gonzaga - 4:00 ESPN - This isn't the type of matchup we'd hope for preseason, but still 2 talented squads playing a nice non-conference game... The Zags need this one bad...
- NC State @ #5 Duke - ESPN 6:00 - Duke got the ship righted a bit in pounding on Maryland this week... this is worth turning on just to see Sidney Lowe in the red coat...
Enjoy it... Come back and check out the Super Bowl preview...
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