Left Coast Sports Babe

The latest “It’s all about me getting to play with my friends” whine comes from Chris Paul, currently of the New Orleans hornets.

Forget the salary cap, maybe what the NBA needs is an ego cap.

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Just heard today that Comic-con has actually been going on since 1970. Scary. That means some of these people have actually met and mated.

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Lou Pinella is the latest manager who will be at least temporarily retiring after being with the Chicago Cubs. Makes sense, aren’t Cub years the equivalent of Dog years?

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The San Francisco Giants may soon give Dontrelle Willis a chance in their bullpen. They’re hoping D-Train hasn’t permanently left D-Station.

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The Barry Bonds perjury trial has been postponed again, this time until at least 2011. By the time they finally bring this case to court the only performance enhancing drug Bonds will be using is “Metamucil.”

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The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame announced the election of three more players yesterday. Oddly enough, three is the average number of Americans on a given day who visit the U.S. Hockey Fall of Fame.

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India has announced a new $35 computer designed especially for students. Well, they already had free local tech support.

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Manager Bruce Bochy of the San Francisco Giants, after his team moved into the lead for the NL Wild Card “We can’t be peeking at the scoreboard in July.” To which Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson no doubt replied, “We don’t need to.”
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A study published in “Environmental Health” magazine links cleaning products to a higher risk of breast cancer. Another reason a messy house is good for you!

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France soccer coach Laurent Blanc will suspend all 23 players on the team for one game next match as punishment for their embarrassing performance last month. So that means in the next match, none of the team that travelled to South Africa will be playing. Which is different from the World Cup how?

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from reader T.C.

“We saw the great Tim Wakefield live in Oakland this week. I’ve never seen slow motion replay actually used in a real game.”

And from Alex Kaseberg:

An audio tape with a racist rant from Mel Gibson to his ex-girlfriend was leaked to the Internet; in the tape, Gibson behaves so badly he was named an honorary FIFA World Cup referee.

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