The Drubbing

After a month filled with NCAA basketball, this first week of April has been leading up to the NCAA Championship tonight. But once that’s over, the focus will quickly shift to the NBA Playoffs, Where Amazing Happens.

Ironically enough, we actually have two players in the rankings this week that played for one of the teams competing for the NCAA title. Vince Carter in the number 14 spot and Antawn Jamison in the number 7 spots both suited up in Carolina blue for the UNC Tar Heels. Will that bode well for their alma mater, only time will tell. Now on to the rest of the players in this weeks Basketball Jesus Rankings.
Continue reading “The Basketball Jesus Rankings: Week 24″ →

29 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists. 36 points, 11 assists, 12 for 12 from the stripe. 27 points, 7 assists, 10 for 17 from the field and 5 for 8 from behind the arc.

These aren’t the stat lines of Jason Terry, Tony Parker, Chauncey Billups and Jason Kidd. These are the stats of Rajon Rondo, Derrick Rose and Aaron Brooks. Two of which won their first game of their playoff series, the exception being Rondo.

There’s a new cast of point guards wreaking havoc throughout the NBA, many of them made it to the playoffs this year, and now they’re leaving their mark.

Speaking of leaving their mark, Dorris Burke continues to be a blemish on the NBA landscape with an abysmal performance during the Portland/Rockets game tonight. So I guess it’s more of a skid mark. The next time ESPN or ABC is thinking about having Dorris Burke do color commentating for a game, don’t. Please call me. I’ll fly myself to the game and I’ll do it for free. Even if I don’t say a thing the entire game, it won’t be quite as bad as having to listen to Doris. They learned their lesson quickly with Kara Lawson. She did one game before getting the ax.

Best line of the night

This has been a great day of basketball, as we break the seal of the NBA playoffs.
- Mike Terrico

Worst line of the night

Ron Artest goes into the stands [to save the ball]!
- Dave Pasch

I love this game.

The media has come down hard on Andrew Thomas Gallo, the young man that allegedly killed Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher Nick Adenhart, Courtney Stewart and Henry Pearson as well as injuring Jon Wilhite. The circumstances of the Major League Baseball player’s death have thrust this incident into the national spotlight and Andrew Gallo and his family have been beaten down with the negative press. It’s been so bad that Gallo’s family has temporarily relocated because of death threats, presumably from idiot Angels fans.

But Gallo’s family isn’t doing him any favors, sticking with the same game plan that got him here in the first place. In the family’s first public interview, Andrew’s father, Thomas Gallo told the press, ”People think my son is a monster. He’s not.” Gallo’s mother added that ”It was an accident. He never meant to hurt anybody, ever.” What a relief. Let’s just forget it all happened.
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Great weekend from the Masters:

This isn’t sports, but it is Chuck Norris, needless to say you must watch.

Matt Stairs hit a 9th inning homer, which gives me an excuse to post this link (20 second mark, priceless).

I was watching this game when it happened, and i am thankful once again for youtube.  As the Miller Park Sausage Race comes down to a close finish.

Your Weekly Chuck Norris Fact:

Chuck Norris was the first person to tame a dinosaur.

* Please note that Chuck Norris is in no way affiliated with The Drubbing or its writers. If he did find out we were using his name in a gimmick he would roundhouse kick all of us to death.

I often hear about how coaches in the college game really care about their kids. If you truly believe that, then this should interest you.

Meet Jim Boeheim, winner of the 2003 National Championship.

Meet Paul Harris. Boeheim once called him the best freshman that he recruited since Carmelo Anthony. (Thanks for that Jim, since Paul started all of three years after Melo).

Paul Harris didn’t declare for the NBA Draft but someone declared for him. Syracuse University issued a press release stating that Harris declared for the Draft. Concerning his entrance of the NBA Draft, Harris told the Post Standard “I didn’t know a thing about it, I didn’t do that. I don’t have a clue who actually did it.”
Continue reading “College Basketball Is Not Where Caring Happens” →

Forget about 64, I want 16. You heard me 16. I want the NBA Playoffs.

Witness the best in the world as they go face to face. Watch Kobe v. Deron Williams, CP3 v. Yao, Brandon Roy v. Tim Duncan, Carmelo v. Dirk… all in the first round.

40 games in 40 nights. Where amazing happens. Without a doubt, the best show on TV from April through June.
Continue reading “The Tournament… and I’m not Talking about the NCAA” →

Where do you find ties this long?

Just when we thought we’d heard the last out of Isiah Thomas. He’s back. Now as the head coach of the Florida International men’s basketball team. In charge of teaching young men how to be better basketball players, and better citizens of the world. Perfect.

As a gesture of goodwill, he’s voiced his intent to donate his first year salary back to the athletic department at Florida International. The terms of his contract have not been released, but I’m sure he’ll really miss whatever they’re paying him.
Continue reading “Enough is enough, Isiah Thomas needs to go away” →

From Starter to the safety of Rivera, the Yanks have a lot of dangerous terrain to cover

With 1 week into the season, and only 25 more to go, i thought i’d make some snap judgments on the young baseball season.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Yankee Bullpen against the O’s. The bridge between a starter and Rivera is like a sketchy rope bridge in an Indiana Jones movie.  Just picture Coach Joe Girardi trying to do everything in his power to get to Mariano Rivera, only Damaso Marte, Phil Coke, Edwar Ramirez, Jose Veras, Jonathan Albaladejo and Brian Bruney are the planks he needs to step on before getting there….yikes.

I think the Texas Rangers could score 7 runs a game this year.  I also think their pitching could give up 10 runs a game.  That lineup is sick, and almost too loaded.  How do you not trade either Chris Davis, Hank Blalock, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Taylor Teagarden, or stud minor leaguer Justin Smoak for some starting pitching?! I mean make a deal because to trot out a starting 5 of Kevin Millwood, Vincent Padilla, Kris “Anna” Benson, Brandon McCarthy, and Matt Harrison is absurd.  The AL West can easily be taken with the Mariners being, well the Mariners, the A’s undergoing more youth movements, and the Angels missing out on the Texiera sweepstakes as well as undergoing injuries to their entire starting staff.

Joe Morgan, kills me as an announcer.  Absolutely kills me, and he needs to go.  Last year, he gave us this gem, about lead-off walks.  Earlier this week, with a runner on 3rd, 1 out and the infield pulled in, Derek Jeter grounded out.  This Prompted Joe Morgan to say that, “People don’t understand how hard it is to hit with the infield in.”   Really, Joe.  If that were the case then every team would have their infield in, don’t you think?

With all the tragedy and turmoil in this crazy world, it warms the heart when you hear a story about something good every once in a while.

Rick Reilly has uncovered some of the good that the Arizona Diamondbacks are doing in their community. The D-Backs have recognized their place of prominence in the community and when they saw their community struggling, they have stepped up and taken action to ease the pain of some of their biggest fans.
Continue reading “Baseball scholarships of a different kind” →

Opening Week in baseball, we have some really good links, especially the Diamondbacks charity work:

Nothing like your star in the making pitcher trashing your city while being stopped for a DUI coming from a strip club.

And following the previous link, read here before trying to get tickets to the Stadium that A-Roid built.

But the feel good story of the week goes to the Diamondbacks for their generosity to the local fans.

While such things are legal in Baseketball, apparently soccer is more reserved.

Your Weekly Chuck Norris Fact:

Chuck Norris can prevent forest fires.

* Please note that Chuck Norris is in no way affiliated with The Drubbing or its writers. If he did find out we were using his name in a gimmick he would roundhouse kick all of us to death.