The Celtics have traded Doc Rivers to the Clippers for a first round pick. The writing was on the wall but this is a bitter sweet moment for the Celtics nonetheless. They are giving up one of the best coaches in the NBA. That being said, if a rebuilding team can trade their coach for a first round draft pick you do it every day and twice on Sunday. Did Doc Rivers help Boston look more attractive to prospective free agents? Yes; however the unattractiveness of the long term roster of the Celtics more than out weighs the attractiveness of Doc. Also, it doesn't make sense to pay someone $7 million a year to coach a team that is destined for the lottery.This is the first of many steps the Celtics must take if they wish to raise banner 18 somewhere down the road.
It looks like Stern isn't going to allow KG to be traded to the Clippers in a separate deal so it will be intriguing to see what the C's do with KG and Pierce as free agency approaches. If I'm sitting in Danny Ainge's seat I would amnesty KG and buyout Pierce. I wouldn't half ass blowing up this roster. I'd prefer 2-5 years in the basement to become relevant again than the nearly 20 years of mediocrity they had between the twilight of Bird's career and Ainge bringing in the Big Three.
CNN:The National Transportation Safety Board recommended on Tuesday that all 50 states adopt a blood-alcohol content (BAC) cutoff of 0.05 compared to the 0.08 standard on the books today and used by law enforcement and the courts to prosecute drunk driving.The idea for a tighter standard is part of a safety board initiative outlined in a staff report and approved by the panel to eventually eliminate drunk driving, which accounts for about a third of all road deaths in the United States.
I don't understand politicians. If you drive drunk you're an idiot and deserve all the punishment they throw at you. That being said lowering the legal limit is not going to reduce drunk driving incidents. People that get in accidents and kill people while drunk aren't hovering around the .08 mark. Reality is if you're .08 and below and you get in a crash it wasn't because you were drunk it's because you are a shitty driver. Lowering the limit won't make anyone any safer. It might stop people from enjoying an adult beverage while eating their primo boneless wings at Applebee's but it won't stop some red nose booze bag from driving home from the bar.
The Player's Championship lived up to the hype this weekend as the best non-major tournament on the PGA Schedule. Whether you love Tiger or hate Tiger we can all agree it was amazing to see Sergio Garcia shit it pants when he was tied for the lead with two holes left. Watching the co-leader of the tournament put three shots in the drink in two holes is one of the great things about golf. When stuff like that happens it makes me feel great about myself. It give me the illusion that if I wanted to, I could throw out my Xbox, hit the driving range, and play on tour. What makes it even sweeter is that Sergio blamed a poor shot on Sunday on someone (Tiger Woods) pulling a club out of their bag during his backswing. It doesn't get any more ridiculous than that. What's next, he sucked today because the sky was too blue?
PENN: Cherlie Lafleur, 19, was arrested after a custodian at McCaskey East
High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, discovered the body of a young
baby in a trash can in the ladies restroom at the school on Tuesday.The teen reportedly first attempted to flush the child down the toilet.
But when that didn’t work, she deposited the body in the trash can. An autopsy has found that the baby was about 28 weeks gestation, well
past the point of viability. Police have not yet determined whether the
child was stillborn or alive at birth. “We can not always determine if there was a heartbeat at the time,” said the coroner. Surveillance footage at the school allowed police to track down Lafleur as the suspect. The teen has been charged with concealing the death of a child.
Stories like this one are the reason why the FDA approved over the counter use of Plan B for everyone 15 and older. The only thing worse than a bunch of babies with stupid teenage parents is a trash barrel full of dead babies. If I was in charge they would just serve school lunches with a side of plan B every day, or maybe they could just put out a new Plan B carton of lunch milk. At the very least schools could mail out birth control to anyone that gets below a C average. Let's face it if you get below a C in high school class you probably shouldn't be passing your genes down to another generation anyway.
Admittedly, I am not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to MMA but watching Jon Jones do what he did tonight was incredible. I imagine this would be how I would have felt after Kobe dropped 81 in 2006 if I didn't hate Kobe and the Lakers almost as much as I love Paul Pierce and the Celtics.
Jon Jones just owned the entire night. From his entrance, to the fight to the post victory interview it was just straight dominance. He had the look of a college kid on the first nice day of spring when he was walking out of the tunnel to Bob Marley. Then not only does he dominate Chale Sonnen he does so with Chale's own strategy, just to add an extra fuck you to the win. Jones has a 10 inch reach advantage but decided he didn't care and was going to win the match by grappling/ pounding the shit out of Sonnen's face from two inches away. The man is Jordan of his sport.
PS Dana White would be idiotic if he didn't back up the Brinks truck and get Anderson Silva to fight Jon Jones.
CBS Cleveland: A former physical education teacher lost her job because of her relationship with another woman. The private life of former Bishop Watterson High School educator Carla Hale became public when her female partner was listed as a surviving family member in her mother’s obituary. Soon after the article was published, a parent anonymously notified the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus about Hale’s sexuality. A few weeks later, Hale was fired after 19 years of working at the school. I can't decide what part is less shocking, that the female gym teacher was a lesbo or that a Catholic school terminated her employment when they found out she was gay. Who's at fault here? What was the school expecting when they hired a woman who's wardrobe consisted of nothing but tracksuits, white polos and khaki shorts? Also, there's no way to know for sure but there's at least a 90% chance she was rocking the boys-regular from SuperCuts. At the same time what was this woman thinking? Why would you choose to work at a place that views you as a second class citizen just because you enjoy keeping your genitalia in close proximity to other like it? Imagine how miserable you have to be to scour through the obituaries for your kid's gym teacher's dead mother? I'd bet the woman that reported the PE teacher to the school was just upset her fat piece of shit son got a lousy grade in health because he couldn't label the clitoris correctly. If there were any mysteries surrounding the death of the lesbo's mother I totally just solved it.
Gotta love Manny. He's easily the best right-handed hitter to ever wear a Red Sox uniform. I think there's a case to be made for Manny as the best right-handed hitter of all time. There's no denying he is hands down in the top five most electrifying players in history. Manny Ramirez in his prime was the people's champion of baseball. His baggy pants and effortless swing made him a dream to watch. There will never be another threat in the middle of a lineup that is as scary to face as Manny was. Not only was he incredibly talented but he was incredibly clutch.
Part of the reason it's been so tough to watch the Red Sox over the past few years is because they have lacked that dominant player. When Manny was at the plate you stopped whatever you were doing and you watched. You didn't care if you were on the phone, doing work, or on the computer you wanted to see what he was going to do. Slowly, we must all come to grips with the reality that the Sox will never have a player like Manny again. The sooner everyone accepts that the sooner we can enjoy the Red Sox as much as we did from 2001-2008.
