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Here’s What I got out of sports so far this week:

Can we officially say that Michael Jackson tributes have crossed line?

Watching this, did you not think: “Why am I watching random animals, small children, and Celine Dion?… because Jacko was a pretty weird dude.” Real bold choice to go with the small children… it’s as though the music industry is completely delusional about Michael Jackson post-1990 – they don’t even think this would be odd.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=269761&cc=5901 – Chelsea just opened the door a little bit more for suddenly in form Manchester United.

While on the topic of soccer, in the wake of the Manchester United victory over Arsenal, I got a phone call from Ryan “Double R” Russell about the game, and the first soccer podcast ensued. We discuss the EPL, John Terry, John Terry’s girl, Champions League, as well as USASoccer. It’s a damn good podcast. It is available for download here: http://nickcoman.com/rrsoccer.m4a, available in the Itunes Store free here: bit.ly/bwlKws and to stream here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/rankings?poll=2&year=2010&week=13 – Cornell cracking the top 25. At this point, it seems as though the drop off after about the 5 best teams in the country is huge. I don’t know if I trust anybody in the Michigan State and below zone. A 4 #1 Seeds final 4 could be on again…

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http://soccernet.espn.go.com/match?id=269951&cc=5901 – This game set soccer in America back at least a month. On ESPN during a time of day when people are awake, viewers got to see one of the worst EPL games of the year. 25 Fouls… 13 shots.

http://espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=300201016 – Penguins do look solid.

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=300201026 - All the sudden the Jazz look like the team that gave the Lakers trouble in the second round a couple years ago. AK47 looks good again.

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=300201022 – Bobcats still probably kind of suck sometimes… lets not get ahead of ourselves.

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http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=300201029 – I’m not sure why ESPN has made such a big deal out of passing Jerry West as all-time leading Lakers scorer. Who follows all-time team records? Meanwhile, another day, another crazy rebound total for Zach Randolph. If Randolph stays good, does he not have one of the funniest collections of throwback jersies imaginable? Jailblazers + Isaiah Knicks 1-2 Punch?

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=300201003 – New Orleans without Chris Paul is probably one of the 5 worst teams in the league.

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=300201014 – About 100 people showed up to watch the Heat lose… 3 starters combining for 7 points… nice

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=300201027 – Classic Brian Scalabrine statline: 10 Min, 0 Pts, 1 Ast, 0 Reb, 3 PF, -10+-… but Boston needs a white dude.

Watched late 90s classic “Armageddon” last night (the film I have watched more times than any other) and got into the: how famous would you be if you saved earth? could you just get with any girl you want? conversation with friends Phil and Patty-C. They said you could… but I’m worried that if Tiger Woods and John Terry can get in trouble, even A.J. Frost aka Ben Affleck probably would too even if they had saved the world. Amazing this music video that was at least 5 yrs pre-Youtube has 53 million hits:

I mean… Hanzel, coach from Remember the Titans, John Coffey, creepy dude from Con-Air, Matt Damon’s buddy in Good Will Hunting, and John McClain all involved.

And the Hog said 6 more weeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day#Predictions_by_year

Real,

Nick