How's this for Gibb's genius? Along with the Raiders and Browns, the Redskins are one of three teams (out of 32!) that are under .500 when leading at the half. Gibbs really knows how to keep that focus....
It's not as easy as it may seem for me to hate on Gibbs but his decision making and performance lead me to have something less than faith in him now.
2nd Quarter
Starting out with 4 bench players trying to get a spark with Kwame being the lone starter on the floor. Normally, Lamar would be out there at this time for a bit of stabilization.
Good work Kwame...way to stick with the play! Fight for the rebound, wait for the steal on the lazy pass.
Looks like Phil's plan is to lure the Heat to sleep, take the edge off.
Deeper Lakers squad makes me feel tons better about Kobe being on the bench for 5 minute stretches or more. V-Rad, aka the Geico Cave man, is slowly getting into a Lakers rhythm. Luke has definitely picked his game up. Maurice Evans has had some nice run too, despite just getting his shot jacked by Mourning....
Time for more eggnog and brandy. . . .
What the hell is 'Curse of the Golden Flower'? What kind of name is that? Why does a martial arts flick have such a girly name?
Okay Sasha, that's three straight shots....
Another bad call on Kwame, three personals and maybe one of those was an actual foul.
The fact that the Heat were given a championship last year still leaves a bad taste in my mouth....
Four straight threes from Sasha...
Phil...take Shootsha out....
Five possessions....five threes attempted.....one three made.....down by twelve,not surprising.
Why the hell is lebron wearing a headband in the pool?
Gotta hold my newborn, be back later.....
1st Quarter
Fouls can be the story. Two centers, two fouls, five minutes left in the first quarter. Oh, and the whole D-Wade is allowed to draw a foul by initiating contact....Kobe can't get to the line to save his life.
Alert: Miami players are putting parts in their hair a la Spike Lee's 'Do the right thing'....bad idea. Perhaps it is some kind of team unity thing; you know, if we all have bad haircuts then we can't all get laughed at together!! One for all and all for one.
Shot selection is suspect right now.
Turiaf with a nice post up.
Every time D-Wade touches the ball the refs blow the whistle. Shades of the finals returning....8 free throws in the first quarter...at this pace he will have 32 free throws at game end. First quarter has taken over 30 minutes with the parade to the foul line currently known as the Heat Offense.
It's apparent that we must avoid all defensive pressure for fear of the whistle......
Cooks Island -- Approximately 8:40 pm, for the first time in modern history, white folks lose. In a surprising turn of events, the winner of this year's Racial Survivor will not be a Caucasian. VT (as I call him since I don't know his real name), the last caucasian on the show, was voted off of the controversial show.
When this year's show started -- for those that are pop culturally challenged -- 16 contestants were divided into four tribes based on their race. Whites versus Blacks versus Asians versus Hispanics - Let's get it on! The racial theme lasted only briefly as the driving force as the tribes were mixed within the first few episodes.
With tonite's finale nearing the midpoint, we have two Asians, one Hispanic, and one Black. My money is on an Asian, more than likely Yul, the Godfather.
Wins like last night's 112 - 101 comeback victory over the Houston Rockets without Lamar Odom are the kind of games we can look back on when we need a boost later in the year. Kobe's 53 point outburst fueled, carried, willed-- and any other verb you wanna throw at it -- the Lakers to their fifth victory in seven games. 53, 10, and 8 assists -- those, my friend, are true numbers!
Odom sprains right knee
HOUSTON (AP) - Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom sprained his right knee in the first quarter of Tuesday's game against the Houston Rockets and Coach Phil Jackson said he might be out for more than a month.
The 6-foot-10 Odom, the Lakers' leading rebounder and second-leading scorer, landed awkwardly after Shane Battier blocked his shot on a drive. Odom stayed in the game for another 90 seconds, but the Lakers called a time out so Odom could come out with 8:31 left.
"I don't know exactly when it happened," Odom said. "But I felt like something was really wrong. I have no idea how long it'll be. I've never had anything like this."
Odom was taken to a hospital for an MRI. The Lakers said Odom suffered a moderate MCL sprain and was flying back to Los Angeles for more tests on Wednesday.
"He's going to miss some time," Jackson said. "I'll be really happy if he plays again in January."
Odom had started all 20 games for the Lakers and is averaging 18 points and nine rebounds per game.
If there is anything that we didn't need, it is this. Odom possibly out for several weeks. Luke Walton's production has been great but now we are going to need it stay consistent. Previously, it was needed but there was room for a loss of focus here and there. Not any longer, Luke has officially become our second scorer followed by the Brown/Bynum tandem. Tough stretch of road games coming up with another in Dallas tonite.
One million bucks goes to the world's best casual gamer. 10 payments of one hundred thousand dollars. Mrs. Xpinionated plays solitaire, bejeweled 2, and zuma. Mrs. Xpinionated needs to hone her skills and make us some munay!
To The Race:
Being of Black America, lets begin tomorrow by not using the N- word. While achieving this, lets concentrate on eliminating other derogatory words that we use so faithfully.Speak with words of Love, Peace and Happiness, forget the F-word, S-word and G-word, etc. Man life without profanity is beautiful.
Pop
CollegeFootballNews.com has released it's top rated ACC players list and Hokies made a pretty respectable showing.
The All-ACC Offensive team listed Branden Ore at RB and Brandon Pace at PK. The defensive team sported three Fighting Gobblers with Vince Hall, Jr. at LB, Brandow Flowers DB, and Eddie Royal, Jr as PR.
CFN also listed it's top 30 regardless of position. 
Vince Hall was highest on this list at the four spot. He was followed by Branden Ore at 9 (who also received top back accolades), Xavier Adibi at 14, and Brandon Flowers at 19.
I need to be strong. I want my son to be healthy. I want him to be here. That way I feel I can at least do something. The latest ultrasound showed that his heart was slightly to the right. It's functioning normally and although the doctor told Mrs. Xpinionated not to worry, I'm a little sickened. I just want Devin here.
What does it take to realize your team sucks? How about realizing that with 25% of the season left, you can only hope to get to .500? Upon hearing that your current coach is going to stay, you suddenly start making plans for next season's Sundays so you can spare yourself the frustration?
You know your team sucks when people stop talking trash to you
You know your team sucks when you stop talking trash
You know your team sucks when you try to talk trash but can't help but giggle a little with anything you say
You know your team sucks when you don't know who they play next....and you don't care
You know your team sucks when they consistently get between 0 and 1 highlight per Sunday evening episode of ESPN.
You know your team sucks when your coach is more successful in his 'other endeavours' than he is in his job!
You know your team sucks when your reply to any criticism revolves around the record breaking performances of Doug Williams and Timmy Smith in the Superbowl umpteen years ago...
The Virginia Tech Hokies have accepted a bid to play the University of Georgia on December 30th in Atlanta at the Chick Fil A (Peach) bowl -- it will always be the Peach bowl as far as I'm concerned.
Living in the metro ATL area, I've been exposed to my fair share of UGA fans and their football. Though always obnoxious, I can respect that much more than I can Georgia Tech's new obnoxiousness, which coincidentally has died down considerably with the real GT showing it's colors. For these eight years, I have prophesied on how UGA is a good team, no doubt, but I'm not convinced that they are better than VT. In fact, I'm sure beer influenced boasts followed at regular intervals, not to mention well timed 'Yipes' to mock any UGA barking that may have been previously heard.
Well, now the time has come. The Hokies and the Bulldogs. I didn't score tickets to the game and I'm not all that upset about that. After four years of being the only Hokies fan at my local watering hole, it is only right that I watch that game, for better or for worse (and circumstances willing given the expected child), at that bar surrounded by all those Dawgs fans.
Trash Talk? I do not plan on starting it but I will not turn the other cheek...that's fo' sho'. Now during the game and after the game, only the game can decide (and the amount of liquid courage filling the room) what is said.
Ben Johnson, the former sprinter who was stripped of his 9.72 second gold medal in the '88 univer-Seoul Circus ... uh Olympics has told an Australian newspaper that Carl Lewis set him up. Blah blah, the funny part of this is the victim toned statement:
"Number one, that day the drugs that they find in my system was not the drugs that I was using," he said.
Followed by:
"I'm not denying at all that I was taking drugs but that's the drugs that I was using that they claiming.
And we're supposed to feel sorry for the guy.....cuz he was sabotaged...poor li'l fella....dumbass.
