Left Coast Sports Babe

Last year: President Bush took his private 747  to  California, rode to Stanford University in a long motorcade with  dozens of  police cars, and then took a private helicopter to Napa, just so he
could ride a bike for Earth Day.

So John McCain is on a campaign tour of the South,  where he says he is embracing “forgotten places.”

Of course in his case those forgotten places can be where he left his keys, his glasses, his teeth….

It’s been a rough start to the playoffs for the Wizards.  Not only are they down 2-0 after big losses to the Cavaliers,  but Deshawn Stevenson really seems to have lit a spark under LeBron James by calling him “over-rated.”  And then Brendan Haywood gets called for a flagrant foul on James.

It’s enough to make Washingtonians looking for a little more dignified performance turn on C-Span.

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And this might be the quote of the week from new Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles.

“Anybody that is going to come to work with enthusiasm, concentrate and play hard will never have a problem with me. I don’t care if they throw the
ball in the seats 25 times a game.”

“They’ll be pulled out of the game before they get to
25, of course, but they will never have a problem with
me,” he added