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Things to Read: 11/10
Tremendous Upside Potential —
Send tips to rickhouse@blogabyfans.com. And don't forget about my 'Hawks post on FCP. Deadspin: Leitch on Simmons. MSF: Jerod invokes "body language" when ranking Jay Cutler the 15th best QB in the NFL. NQTC: Rick Morrissey eats his words about Joakim Noah, adds salsa. Videogum: "Shit My Dad Says" (yes, the Twitter account) is being turned into a TV show. And a music video. After the jump...
The Strokes - Take It or Leave It
Unverified Voracity Has Tire Tracks On Forehead
mgoblog —
Let's get Denarded. Since it will be on the message board forever and ever amen and discussed until the weekend: e-reports say that Tate Forcier's facebook status yesterday was about having a bad day and somewhere in the comment thread spawned by that—probably made band fiasco look tame—Tate mentioned he would not be starting this weekend, and then hurriedly deleted that because duh. All of this is in the realm of quasi-fact that the efix* is so good at condescendingly mocking.
…but. But Forcier is probably going to miss a little bit of time against Wisconsin for an exceedingly minor violation of team rules. This is not for sure. It is ...
Bill Simmons! Bill Simmons! Bill Simmons!
The Big Lead —
Bill Simmons: Finally, someone who isn’t friends with Bill Simmons writes about him with a critical eye. We haven’t read his book, but after sifting through many fawning reviews, this is the best we’ve read: “The book is more a collection of extended blog posts than a work of literature, an anthology that’s best read in short bursts. Instead of taking my time, I devoured the book in a couple of sittings because it was so fun to read—until it got a lot less fun when the jokes and pop-culture comparisons started repeating themselves. How’s this for an analogy: Pounding on Bill Simmons for The Book ...
Our Unnecessarily Exhaustive City College-Hoops Preview
The Sports Section —
... to reach the tournament? That might be pushing it. But if they're going to sneak in, this is the year.
We love college basketball, and we can prove it: Sitting at our desk right now are three college-basketball reference books. College Basketball Prospectus, the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook and, our favorite new toy, the massive ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia, which actually runs 1,213 pages. (Take that, Simmons!)
As a service to you, and because we love leafing through all the pages and ...
Link Dump! Brought To You By Bill Lumberg
Rumors and Rants —
Mmmm, yeah.
Brent Celek had a little captain in him, and now no one else can. Thanks buddy - Yahoo!
The fall of A.I. - Randall Simon’s Sausages
Brady Quinn is indeed your starter for Monday vs. the Ravens - Cleveland Frowns
Pacquiao/Mayweather at Cowboys Stadium? - Deuce of Davenport
Manny Pacquiao knocks you out…with his singing - Outside the Boxscore
It’s a simple game in the NFL. You run the ball. You stop the run - i94 Sports
Morgan Newton is gonna get some PT on Saturday - Strait Pinkie
Your college football ...
The most spot-on book review of all-time
desipio.com —
I will admit that part of the reason that Bill Simmons’ big book of basketball nonsense is currently the #1 Bestseller on the New York Times non-fiction list is that I bought a copy of it. As you well know, I get big ideas from time to time and on rare occasion I actually follow through with them. I was going to buy the much hyped book, read it and review it for you, the home reader.
But here’s the thing. I can’t. I enjoy the NBA as much as the next guy, and more than most. I like to think I have some idea of how the game is played, and I can watch Kirk Hinrich miss layups for hours. Truth is, however, there are a number of ...
Review: “The Book of Basketball” by Bill Simmons
Ball in Europe, the European Basketball Blog —
The only good thing about getting a nasty flu? Easy: Lots of time for reading monster tomes like Bill Simmons’ “The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy”. Thanks to a sentinel from the legion of The 2009 Killer Viruses, i was able to knock down all 697 pages of this thing – every “what if” scenario, every drop of gushy sycophantry about the Boston Celtics, every cheap shot at Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, every improved list of reasons why, every obtuse pop-culture reference that would’ve sent me scurrying to access Wikipedia had i possessed the ability to crawl out of bed. Everything.
It’s not quite like ...
