Left Coast Sports Babe

Today’s 76ers-Heat playoff game wasn’t even a sellout in Miami.    Guess Heat fans are emulating their team in not showing up unless they think it really matters.

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Headline for my hockey fan friends – “Price is Right.”

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Before Nicholas Cage’s arrest, the New Orleans police allegedly told him and his wife to just go home. And Cage responded, “Why don’t you just arrest me?” When the cops again said “go home”, he repeated the dare. Cage was charged with domestic abuse and disturbing the peace. Because they couldn’t charge him with felony stupidity.

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Maybe Nicholas Cage and Charlie Sheen and Ann Coulter can start in a movie version of “Two and a Half Men.”

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Lady Gaga was spotted at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Saturday. Prompting thousands of children just reaching the age of skepticism about cartoon characters to ask “Mommy, is there a person inside that costume?”

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Pitcher Colby Lewis of the Texas Rangers was the first player to go on Major League Baseball’s new paternity leave. (Which allows players to miss from 24-72 hours without going on the disabled list.) This could be the start of a nice trend in professional sports, though the NBA would have to limit it to a certain number of uses for each player per season.

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So we’ve got a huge deficit and the government shuts down online poker games. Here’s a different idea – keep them going and tax the winnings.

Sarah Palin criticized congressional Republicans Saturday for not cutting spending enough, and saying the GOP needs to “fight like a girl.” “Fight like a girl?” In Palin-speak I guess that means dishing it out and crying media bias instead of taking it.

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A recent study at UCSF indicates that multitasking, especially with all the technological applications(Facebook, Twitter, email, texts….) available these days impedes short-term memory and makes it harder for people to focus. Oh look, a dancing kitten!!

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Kevin Na scored a 12-over par 16 on the ninth hole during the first round of the Texas Open.   The last time the PGA has seen such a disastrously large number, it involved Tiger Woods’ online black book.

Or as Marc Ragovin said ” haven’t seen so many futile swings since the last time the Mets played.”

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