Denver does San Antonio...The Nuggets beat San Antonio at home last night, to take a 1-0 lead in the opening round playoff series. The Nuggets! In San Antonio!Denver might actually be able to make some noise this spring. They have one of the best scorers in the game in Anthony and perhaps the toughest player of the modern era in Iverson. (That's more than the Lakers can say. They have the scoring part and little else.)
Both of the Nuggets stars showed up big on Sunday with Melo putting up 31 and the Answer 30. Each of them were perfect from the free throw line.
The only thing I can see holding the Nuggets back is George Karl. Is it too late for Phil Jackson to join the Nuggets? That's basically what he does right?
With or without Jackson, the Nuggets are officially my rooting interest in the West and I'll root, root, root for the Bull-ies in the East.
Don Nelson Does Dallas...And if one playoff upset wasn't enough, Golden State beat top-seeded Dallas in one of the toughest places to play in the league. Baron Davis had 33 pts, 14 rebs, and 8 assts, and Mark Cuban had one giant puss on his face (to borrow from The Sopranos). The difference here is, as opposed to the Nuggets, that the Warrior have no chance of beating Dalls in a seven game series.
In fact, I'll be shocked if this one doesn't end up 4-1 Mavericks.
Dice-K still mortal, but that's good enough...While we're still waiting for Matsuzaka to display the sake-esque mind bending powers we all know he has, he did beat the Yankees in his first ever start in the rivalry, scooping up the first sweep of the Bronx Bombers in Fenway in 17 years.
It took the long ball, including back to back to back to back homers from Ramirez, Drew, Lowell and Varitek, but Boston completed their third straight come back win in the series. I don't want to read too much into one late-April series, but it was nice to feel like no matter what happened, the Sawx were going to find a way to get it done.
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised, however, considering the current state of the Yanks. It's been a while since I've watched New York and had no idea who three or four of the players were. They trotted out a slew of average white guys with average white guy names (Colter Bean, Chase Wright, Josh Phelps), even throwing Andy Pettite in relief after he'd just thrown on Friday. They'll be back, but for now, on this rivalry weekend representing the eternal struggle between heaven and hell, it's White Hates 4 Black Hats 2, because...
The Cubs lost .667 of the games they played this weekend...With the wind blowing out yesterday, the Cubs fell in the 10th to St. Louis and dropped 2 of 3 to the epitome of evil at Wrigley Field. The fact that Chicago even got to the 10th is a minor miracle considering they went down two in the top of 9th, then lucked into two runs on a wind-aided fluke single from Mark DeRosa. Somehow the Cardinals didn't put the game away until the 10th as the Cubs bullpen, one of the only consistent areas of success for the Cubs thus far, allowed the lead-off man to reach in the 8th, 9th and 10th innings.
That eventually catches up to you. You can't give Albert Pujols too many opportunities to be Albert Pujols and he finally burned Ryan Dempster with a three-run shot to put it out of reach.
Despite all that, I don't feel too bad about the Cubs after this weekend. They've been bad, but if they can pick up a couple of wins against the Brewers they'll have survived April. Two wins and they're knocking on the door for second in the division.
This is the most optimistic I've been following a Cubs loss--to the Cardinals no less--in quite some time and I don't have a reson for that. Maybe I'm delusional.
Deep thoughts...You know what's better than seeing this guy score a 62-meter goal(that's 200+ feet, America) in the Bundesliga? German, that's what. Makes this video at least four times better.
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