Playoffs and Birth Cerificates

We cant all be right all the time (i.e. my boy Geroge W.), my previous post regarding the playoffs is a little off, it looks like L.A. (not that team that rents the Phil Jacksons arena the one in yellow) is back..The Mavs seem to have their head on straight (we'll see just how straight tonight, man I have grown to hate Brandon Roy) And Memphis, well they are my new favorite team...This is one of the best groupings of playoff basketball I have ever seen...Please go away Spurs..Neal can only get that lucky once.

This week the White House released our dear presidents birth certificate, (I'm about as interested in this as I am Kate Middletons royal wedding) But, I have heard some say that maybe this is to help drum up publicity about the impending elections, or to distract from the economy..But none of these really make sense, I would be much more interested in seeing his iTunes account and Netflix cue..Now that says something about the person you are!

Have a great last two days of the month.

The year of the mavs

The Dallas Mavericks have had a great year, (unlike Charlie Sheen), they finished 3rd in the west and Jason Terry was runner up for six man of the year. But none of that really matters at this point, its playoffs..The Spurs were stunned with a loss to some team with Paul Gasol's brother on it..The Lakers were hit with a CP3 performs of old, and the Mavs well they did something they haven't done in a while, win in the playoffs. (I realize that this all might not matter after tonight's games)

I'm not going to jump to conclusions by any means, but the Mavericks are doing great, the Rangers are winning, and the Cowboys aren't losing (thanks lockout)..is this to good to be true?

I guess time will tell...

I realize I did not include the Dallas Stars in this at all, but by this point the NHL is close to MLS and the World Series of Poker Tour...I mean come on they just signed a 10 year contract with Versus this week to air NHL games on their cable network, clearly the NHL and Kanye West have a little more in common than I thought..They don't care about being taken seriously.


Ill be watching for the "THEOFFICIALNFL" on Twitter any day now

Top 5 of New...

After the wildly successful post of "Top 5 of Old" (by success I mean 5< readers) I thought it was time for the Top 5 television shows that are currently on the air.

5. Nurse Jackie (this is a show about a nurse that has a drug problem, sounds silly but I must say its pretty well done) (Showtime)

4. Entourage (I'm sure you have heard of this, 4  friends in Hollywood livin it up, Jeremy Piven's acting in this show makes it what it is) (HBO)

3. How to make it in America (This is one not a lot of people know about but is so well done. It's about two entrepreneurs in the big apple trying to make it big) (Kid Cudi is great in it as well) (HBO)

2. Weeds (The drug dealing soccer mom, whats more compelling than that! the last few seasons have dropped off a bit but its still a great show as it sputters to its death) (Showtime)

1. True Blood (This shows cliff hanger endings are sooo good, its based off a book series, and the best show of this decade for sure!) (Vampires sound dumb, yes, but in this case they are not) (Sorry Twilight, I'm team Bill) (HBO)

The best of the rest...

Camelot (A great new show from Starz, has great potential so far, its only had 3 episodes at the time of press) (Starz)
The Big C (A great story of a lady dealing with cancer and day to day life) (Showtime)
Spartacus (You know how I feel about this one, its fantastic, and the prequel they just did, man its great!) (Starz)
Eastbound & Down (This one only has a season or two left, but man is it funny) (HBO)

The next list will most likely be movie related, I don't want to beat the television thing to death..



Top 5 of old...

One of the most popular things among the Internet, other than Twitbook and Paris Hilton's TMZ photos, are lists... Top 10 best this, Top 5 worst that... So in honor of the world wide web (and I have no clue what to blog about) here is my list of the Top 5 Television Shows that are no longer on the air.

5. Studio 60 (you might not have heard of this one, it was on for only a year, it was done by the same guy who made the Facebook movie as well as the show in the number one spot) (worth a watch for sure)

4. The Wire

3. Nip/Tuck (Lets just forget about the 4th season ok?) (A disturbingly perfect drama)

2. Friends

1. The West Wing (one of the most well done shows I have ever seen on television, killer actors, best show of all time)

The ones that didn't make the list, mostly due to the fact I have never seen them...But most people love them..

Scrubs
Lost
Seinfeld
The Sopranos
Arrested Development (this one was close, I just haven't watched enough of it to added to the list..)

Right Place. Right Time. Right Man.





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The Huskie beat out the Bulldog...but why?

This last Monday brought a few things our way in regards to the TV. The Rangers won 4 straight (now 5-0 Red Sox who?), Bravo's new show "Pregnant in Heels" (and I thought Joe Millionaire and The Swan were bad), but what most of you were watching was the conclusion to the greatest tournament in all of sports (no I'm not counting the communist World Cup)...The NCAA March Madness Tournament.

The final score of the game (if you want to even go so far to call it that) was 53-41, Uconn Huskies over the Butler Bulldogs.

This by many, including myself, is considered to be one of the worst National Championships of all time..(other than the great story lines of Uconn winning 11 games straight, 5 in 5 days) or (Butler, the small school of 4,000 making it back to the finals for the second straight year)

I would like to propose a few of my own theories as to why the game was for a lack of a better word, a total suckfest.

Theory 1

The tournament is far too long.. they expanded the field from 64 to 68 teams this year, some people even want it expanded further ( I cant blame them I'm greedy to at times, ok most of the time)..When you expand the field all that does is wear on the players more and more, you cant tell me that the Butler plays weren't dead tired by the final. I would argue that they should contract the tournament and some how make the games an even deal. (you know the greedy thing, Superbowl anyone)
I don't know how much truth there is to this one (there athletes, suck it up) but they are students and maybe Quantity isn't always better than Quality (Cici's vs. Texas De Brazil) (easy choice)

Theory 2

This one I feel has a bit more validity than the first... The game was played at Relient Feild in Houston. This is where the Houston Texans play. (yes you read right the Texans of the NFL) (I'm sure they didn't care there is a lock out they don't really need the field for anything) The court that the players played on had to be built from scratch, and the goals were moved in just for final four weekend. When they set up the court and goals everything is measured to the inch, but if the goals are brand new there surly will not be the give in the rim as usual and they will be far tighter than the players are used to. Most goals have hundreds of thousands of shots over the years, these had merely thousands. This is evidenced by the numerous shots that were in the rim and rimmed right out, I mean come on, Butler shot 18% in the final. You don't make it to the final two years in a row shooting 18%. Sure they might have had a bad night but were there other forces impacting the shooting of the players? (Harry Potter maybe..)

Either way the game is done and Jim Calhoun has 3 rings, I wish nothing but the best for him and Kemba Walker as they walk off into the sunset holding hands...

 Guess who's bracket was not correct...



Photography Monday

I have to suffer through another photography class today, only 5 left..so in honor of my suffering  I thought I would post a few pictures Ive run across on the web. None of these have been photoshopped or tapered with.