-The Oklahoma City Thunder simply can't hold leads. In a sport where having more points than the other team is a necessity, that's a bad thing. The Dallas Mavericks are back in the NBA Finals after coming from behind and beating OKC 100-96 to take the Western Conference Finals 4-1. KD and Co. can pick up their parting gifts at the door.
-The the Boston Bruins will be headed to a game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals. Thankfully for them the Flyers aren't the opponent. Tampa Bay put a Lincoln on the board to the Boston's two Jeffersons to send the series back to Boston. Check out Days Of Y'Orr for completely biased coverage that does the series more justice than I can. (I'm still holding my Jorge De La Rosa candlelight vigil. Details to follow.)
-As the guys over at Deadspin asked, after the Phillies/Reds marathon last night, the big question is who falls asleep during today's 1:05 start game, Dusty or Charlie? The two teams played for just over six hours, which in baseball terms is 19 innings, or in Rich Dubee terms exactly 600 pitches, 220 of them by Roy Halladay. (Our stat guys are checking that one out.)
-Buster Posey was injured in the Giants 12 inning, 7-6 loss to the Marlins as the reigning Rookie of the Year catcher tried to block home plate. The collision was a clean one if not extremely vicious.
Both players, Posey and Florida's Scott Cousins, deserve praise for playing baseball all out. I'm sure somewhere Pete Rose has this play DVR'd and is furiously masturbating to it as he rewinds it over and over again.
-Mike Brown is officially the new head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe had no comment but the California media sure did, blasting the hire already. No verification if it's true that Brown's office door will be titled with "Brian Shaw's Seat Warmer".
-The Wilpons have a sold a non-controlling stake in the New York Mets but not SNY for approximately 200 million dollars to Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn. It's been a busier week for the Wilpons with Jeffrey Toobin's The New Yorker bio on Fred Wilpon, which featured some interesting quotes from Wilpon on his team and players, followed by Wilpon's inevitable apology.
-Bob Huggins has a soulmate. West Virginia football's current offensive coordinator and head-coach-in-waiting Dana Holgorsen was removed from a West Virginia casino after becoming "uncooperative" with security. No truth to the rumor that Huggy Bear sent Dana a congratulatory/welcome to the club bottle of Ketel One.
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