Doesn’t amount to a hill of notes. …
Nothing like a little public embarrassment to motivate a guy. Case in point: Kenyon Martin has scored 56 points in his past two games, surpassing by four his previous high in back-to-back games in a Nuggets uniform. …
OK, so Martin got docked 15 grand by the league office for getting into an X-rated verbal spat with some fans. Hey, look at the bright side. At least he was wearing a collar. …
Sorry, no Nuggets trade rumors today. Thought I’d give Kiki Vandeweghe a day off. …
What’s that? Oh, all right, just one: Anfernee Hardaway to the Nuggets. Hardaway? Don’t laugh. He may be washed up, but he has the one commodity more precious than talent at this time of year: a lucrative ($14.7 million) contract that’s about to expire. …
Carmelo Anthony was aghast the other day when a reporter put his name in the same sentence as Bill Hanzlik. Wait, it gets worse. Would you believe Melo in the same sentence as Darko Milicic? Well you’d better, because I just typed it. Anyway, the Melo Man and the Pistons’ 12th man are the only two players among the top five picks in the 2003 NBA draft not to get selected to play in the All-Star Game. …
Is Sammy Sosa, strongly considering retirement, a first-ballot Hall of Famer? Ask me in 10 months after the writers vote on Mark McGwire. Not that I don’t have a strong suspicion what the answer will be. That would be no. …
For the record, I know a grand total of no one who believes Eddie Sutton will be coaching at Okie State next season. …
Glad to see U.S. skier Lindsey Kildow is OK. That spill she took the other day was the ugliest crash in sports since Isiah Thomas assumed control of the Knicks. …
They don’t call him man-child for nuthin’: The heaviest player on the Eastern Conference all-star team is, of course, Shaquille O’Neal. The second-heaviest is none other than LeBron James at 245 pounds. No wonder Ohio State wanted him to play football. …
The Ron Artest factor: The Kings going into Tuesday night had held their opponents in the 70s or 80s five times in the nine games since Artest’s arrival. Before Artest hit town, they had pulled off that particular feat seven times in 42 games. …
By the way, in case you’ve lost your calculator, the number is six. That’s how many players who have bagged playing for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. The roll call includes Carl Crawford, Barry Bonds, Mark Buehrle, B.J. Ryan, John Smoltz and Tim Hudson. …
The Las Vegas sports books, some of which lost money during the NFL season, played catch-up ball on Super Sunday. According to Nevada state officials, the books handled $94.5 million in bets and won $8.8 million. No wonder so many people were grumbling about the refs. …
This business about vice president Dick Cheney accidentally shooting a hunting partner? Does this mean we can’t tease Jerry Ford about his golf game anymore? …
Stuck on U: UConn’s loss to Villanova the other night was more predictable than you might have thought. The Huskies have had three 11-game winning streaks in a span of three years, but on each occasion weren’t able to reach 12 in a row. …
Dan Daly of the Washington Times, on Bill Belichick never listing Tom Brady‘s sports hernia on any of the Patriots’ weekly injury reports: “If Belichick coached the Panthers, Rae Carruth would be listed as ‘day-to-day.”‘ …
Far as I know, Belichick has never paid a dime in fines for hiding Brady’s injury. Interesting, since, back in the day, Mike Shanahan got nailed by the league office for hiding John Elway‘s cracked rib.
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