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About Ready for Basketball

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Remem­ber the times were you play H-O-R-S-E with friends in the back­yard? What can be bet­ter than play­ing it with an actual NBA super star, and beat­ing him at it. Thought a bit late in post­ing, here’s a video short doc­u­men­tary that I got to track down of NBA All-Star LeBron James get­ting schooled by con­tes­tant David Kalb at Venice Beach, Cal­i­for­nia early last month (September).

Any­ways, Octo­ber is when most of the fun begins for those of us who are play­ing Fan­tasy Bas­ket­ball and/or just fans of the game. It’s also a time to check out trades, injury reports, and high­lights dur­ing the NBA Sum­mer League in Vegas. Just like pre-season of most sports, it’s the time were hopes of your team win­ning the Cham­pi­onship is at its peak and out­most glory. Sim­ply because every­one has a clean record, 0–0.

But for me, per­son­ally, GO LAKERS!

Watch TV Season Premieres on Hulu

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Ever since drop­ping Season-3 on tubes every­where this past Mon­day night, NBC sub­lim­i­nally stated to the other net­works, “We’re back bitches!” Mean­while, I rarely watch TV when I get home other than watch MNF, ESPN and FOX Sports to keep up with Sports in gen­eral. Ever since get­ting a Hulu invite a cou­ple months ago, I have been more than impressed with how far it has come from its days of closed beta.

Any­ways, a cou­ple of TV shows that I have been fol­low­ing lately are: Heroes, Chuck, The Office, My Name is Earl, and Kitchen Night­mares to name a few. On that end, I have to give it up to NBC in let­ting Chuck fans have a sneak peek of Season-2’s first episode avail­able on Hulu days before its pre­miere on Prime­time this upcom­ing Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 29th. You may watch it below. But best to do so soon as its sup­pose to expire in 2-days.

Chuck Season-2 “Sneak Peek” Pre­miere: Chuck Ver­sus The First Date

If you have missed the other sea­son pre­mieres of some of the shows I have listed above, you may check them out below:

PS. On a side note (Design-wise), the only biggest grudge at the moment with Hulu is the dimen­sion it uses: 512px by 296px. Hence, at the time of this writ­ing, I have my main content’s width to 550px. I would like to have 500px to keep things clean and in order but with the use of dif­fer­ent video sites (i.e. Youtube, Hulu, Video, …), it is safer to use this much space for now; though it irks me when the copy goes of to the right of a 500px video.

Nike Snowboard Boots Fall/Winter 2008

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It seems that Nike is set to release its Fall/Winter 2008 line of snow­board boots. They pro­moted their new line via some toy boots (as in the pho­tos in this post). I won­der who Nike will get to join their team. For sure not Shaun White as he just inked a 10-year endorse­ment deal with Bur­ton early this year. That, and it’s just going to be weird see­ing him go with Nike as Bur­ton has been there since he was a lit­tle kid.

I have to give it to Nike though, they’ll prob­a­bly attract some share of the mar­ket as they are a well known brand. I just don’t know if they will attract those season-riders (such as myself) as I have been a brand-whore with Thir­tyTwo in terms of snow­board boots. They are just damn com­fort­able and does what it needs to do to have me ride all day/night long.

Any­ways, time will tell if Nike’s snow­board­ing line will be a hit or miss1.

Source via CtotheJL.

  1. PS. Nike—if you need a tester/reviewer, I’ll be more than up for it =) [↩]

Add Insult to My Injury — Bernard Pollard Fan Club T-Shirt

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As if grown men (like me) every­where in Fan­tasy Foot­ball land haven’t suf­fered enough… Believe Merch has designed a t-shirt com­mem­o­rat­ing Bernard Pollard’s infa­mous hit on Tom Brady this past Sun­day. Not to men­tion, they were kind enough to add a small bio on him and why the tee came about:

Bernard Karmell Pol­lard (born Decem­ber 23, 1984 in Fort Wayne, Indi­ana) is an Amer­i­can foot­ball safety for the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Foot­ball League. He was drafted in the sec­ond round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Pol­lard played col­lege foot­ball at Pur­due Uni­ver­sity. Pol­lard has been dubbed “The Bonecrusher” for his hard hits and tackles.

On Sep­tem­ber 7, 2008, Pol­lard was involved in a play that ended with New Eng­land Patri­ots quar­ter­back Tom Brady being taken off the field with a knee injury and not return­ing for the rest of the game. It was later revealed that Pollard’s hit on Brady most likely has ended the quarterback’s season.

The shirt is avail­able on red or white for $19.99. You may go to their prod­uct page by click­ing here.

Bas­tards! Good one =)

The Agony of a First Pick Going Down

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AP Photo/Winslow Townson
Tom Brady Out for the 2008 Sea­son due to season-ending knee injury.

There’s noth­ing harder and more ago­niz­ing than see­ing your first pick go down, get injured and be ruled out for the sea­son in Fan­tasy Foot­ball. It sucks. After pick­ing Tom Brady as my first pick, 11th in the Draft Order out of 12 peo­ple, and get­ting Randy Moss in the wrap around and my sec­ond pick, I thought I got the best I can per round at the time. But alas, that’s Fan­tasy Foot­ball for you, noth­ing is cer­tain and it can either be reward­ing or painful depend­ing on which side you are on.

So what’s next, well I will prob­a­bly try to pickup Cas­sel like every­one and their mom­mas are doing. I have a bad waiver pri­or­ity (10 out of 12) so I need to have a plan-B and plan-C just in case I don’t get that piece of the puz­zle. Other than the Raider’s O-line suck­ing vs. Denver’s Defense last night, JaMar­cus Rus­sell did a fairly good job for his first start of the sea­son. How­ever, it isn’t enough to ex me as hav­ing him as my start­ing QB.

Although, it is still early in the sea­son, and I have hopes for my Fan­tasy Foot­ball team to still make it to play­offs. I have played with a team that was on the very bot­tom out of 12 teams, and still man­aged to place and get dough at the end. This one just sucks as its caus­ing me at least 20pts. per week—Brady’s aver­age pro­jected Fan­tasy points.

Oh well, c’est la vie.

PS. I found out that Cas­sel went to Chatsworth HS, and played for the Chan­cel­lors. I guess its a sign mwahaha…

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