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Anyone Else Creeped Out by That Bird-Magic Ad?

June 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Basketball, Lakers

You’ve seen the promos, if you’ve watched the NBA playoffs. They do a split-screen of opposing players, each of them saying the same things at the same time, their voices melding. “There Can Be Only One” is, I believe, the working title of these things. The promos are a little annoying. (Kobe and Kevin Garnett […]

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Today’s List: Events Preferable to Watching Game 4 Again

June 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Lists

You saw it, and wish you hadn’t. Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Lakers 70, Celtics 50, six minutes to play in the third quarter. Celtics 97, Lakers 91, when it ended. It was on tape on ESPN late Thursday night, and I couldn’t bring myself to watch it, even in a clinical way. It […]

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Poet’s Take on Lakers’ Plight

June 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Basketball, Kobe, Lakers

I’m lifting this out of this morning’s editions of the Los Angeles Times. From their “letters” to the sports editor feature on page 3 of the sports section. Just have to share. This is … inspired. I was thinking that if this guy can write stuff like this regularly (unless “Sal” is a woman) … […]

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