Links of the Week

Well, that wraps up another week and you know what that means. It means we’re one week closer to football season. At least we have the draft to occupy some of our NBA numbed brain cells this weekend. Just kidding, the playoffs are fixing to be quite sweet this year. Anyway you slice it; this is gonna be an epic NBA Finals – with or without the Spurs.

For this week’s tune of the week, we’ll crank up My Morning Jacket’s first ever performance of Evil Urges from their highly anticipated upcoming release with the same name. Don’t quit until you hit the 3:30 mark. Also, if you are a MMJ fan, the album is floating around the Bit Torrent sites pretty freely already.



Alright, here’s a joke and then some links.

How did Helen Keller’s parents punish her? They left the plunger in the toilet.

You're welcome for that A-bomb.

Fear not, just because the Extrapolater moved onto to bigger and better things, Voodoo Sabermetrics still lives under the guise of Babes Loves Baseball.

Looks like Dan Shanoff took home the trophy for the Suckiest Sports Blog of the Year. It’s funny how the suckiest sports blog is the only one with a movie deal, no?

Juiced Sports Blog brings us the top comments for Stephen A’s blog. Say what you will about Stephen A. Smith, but he certainly perseveres. I would have eaten a jar of Quaaludes and washed them down with a bottle of Fantastic long ago if I was him.

G Money has a crisp analysis in defense of the flop.

Sheed threw his hat into the blogosphere, which can only lead to good things. Speaking of Sheed, Stan and I are gonna start doing something awesome soon, which is live blogging Sheed’s games a few times throughout the playoffs. We wanted to try it on Wednesday, but got stuck with the lousy Celtics game. Soon though.

Check out our pal Rick talking it up on real TV. Great job, Rick! You looked like an old pro out there. I wanted to ring that dude’s neck though for flubbing the name of your website 85 times though. How hard is it?

Here is one of my better contributions over at Hidden track I think you’ll enjoy. It’s the Top Ten Fictitious Music Venues, including the Peach Pit: After Dark, the Dew Drop Inn, and Sharky’s.

Nate over at Flyers Fieldhouse decided to join the hipster bloggerati and out himself.

Finally, as much as it pained me to take home a silver to add to my overflowing Yahoo trophy case, Simon on Sports won the Epic Carnival MOST EPIC HOOPS LEAGUE with the White Warriors. He crafted an entirely white team and won it all in a totally legit league. Awesome.