Left Coast Sports Babe

Just thinking, while the NBA owners may say they are upset at Donald Sterling, could any of them have imagined they’d be getting $2 billion offers for their teams?

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So Donald Sterling is “mentally incapacitated?” Maybe not so much if he managed to get $2 billion for the L.A. Clippers?

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Police evacuated part of LAX after a Stanford political science professor tried to bring a WW2 era grenade through security. Apparently it was his late father’s – but proving again, smart people are not always smart.

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The Spurs rolled again last night at home. Makes sense, the San Antonio players are old enough they are really most comfortable near their own Barcaloungers.

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The National Spelling Bee has ended in a tie. Was Bud Selig somehow involved?

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Much ado in England re photo of wind gust exposing #KateMiddleton‘s bum. But bipartisan US gladness this didn’t happen to Hillary or Bill Clinton.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife just gave $120 million to California public schools. Makes a certain amount of enlightened sense, he wants California kids to learn enough that when they grow up he’ll have people to hire them at Facebook.

As scary as Google’s driver-less cars might be, are they really any scarier than cars with human drivers texting?

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The Wonder Years cast had a reunion. These days the biggest wonder for some of them is remembering each other’s names.

CNN now says the pings that have been the focus of the MH370 search for the past seven weeks, are no longer believed to be from the plane’s black boxes. So standby for seven weeks of coverage on the waste of the past seven weeks.

Manhattan men’s basketball coach Steve Masiello has been reinstated, after he completed his bachelor’s degree from Kentucky. Masiello was on unpaid leave after he announced he was leaving to coach South Florida, until it came to light that he hadn’t himself graduated, Who says a college degree isn’t worth anything these days?

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A white British woman, 47, who grabbed her 17 year-old mixed-race daughter’s passport by mistake, was able to fly to Alicante for the weekend, and was only stopped by Spanish passport control when she tried to get home. So in fairness was the original British passport officer trying to get a job with TSA?

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Queen will release new tracks featuring Freddie Mercury that were just unearthed from the 1980s. Or as the Rolling Stones would say “Only yesterday.”

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Michelle Obama is sparring with House Republicans who want to weaken new healthier school lunch standards. Of course these same GOP folks also want to cut healthcare funding for diabetes.

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A German newspaper showed a picture from behind when a gust of wind blew Kate Middleton’s skirt up. Reminding Brits again that whatever advantages their former colonies may have, England still has William and Kate, while America has the Kardashians.

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Our long California nightmare is over. The #SFPD has apparently manage to find and return Hunter Pence’s scooter.

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The Tea Party did very well in the Texas primaries. Are we sure we don’t want the Lone Star state to secede?

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Tiger Woods will miss the U.S. Open. So instead of covering the tournament will ESPN show a weekend of past Tiger highlights?

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Hayden Panettiere is pregnant. So “Nashville” scriptwriters get to have fun with Juliette Barnes’ next potential bad choice.

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From Bill Littlejohn:  ” Graduating seniors at Ridgewood High in Illinois have been denied their diplomas for tossing their caps in the graduation ceremony. “What’s a graduation ceremony?” asked football players in the SEC”

Over 100 people are sick with norovirus at the Royal Hawaiian hotel in Waikiki.    A team of  CNN reporters are no doubt on the way.

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Donald Sterling says he will fight being forced to sell the Clippers “until the bloody end.” And millions of Americans just got a reason to pay attention to the NBA.

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Our men’s occer team beat Azerbaijan. USA USA USA! Who cares if most Americans are thinking “Who or what is Azerbaijan?”

(Scott Russell “I thought Azerbaijan was a utility infielder on the Houston Astros.”)

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The premier of Turks and Caicos says he is open to the possibility of joining Canada. Which would raise the average temperature of the country about 10 degrees.

#50Cent threw a first pitch that was so bad, he’s received an offer to join the #Mets bullpen.

The #SFGiants Tim Hudson, 38, now has an ERA of 1.92, 5 wins and he has gone at least 7 innings in 8 of his 10 starts. Not bad for someone signed perhaps mostly as adult supervision.

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Both Serena and Venus WIlliam lost in the second round today. This French Open has seen more quick surrenders than…. oh does this really even need a punchline?

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From Alex Kaseberg:  Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are on their honeymoon in Ireland, to which Ireland said;  “We had the potato famine, haven’t we suffered enough?”

I’m thinking it’s bad enough I heard Ireland offered if the newlyweds would just leave the country would host a Justin Bieber concert.

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John Kerry says Edward Snowden should “man up” and come home . But why would Snowden want to tell his case to a judge and jury when he can be a media celebrity speaking from Russia?

Nicole Kidman says she is not “responsible” for the critics panning her new movie “Grace of Monaco,” because she did not have “any control” over how the film turned out. So does that mean she was not responsible in the past when any of her films were successful?

Wonder if Nicole Kidman will also claim she was personally disappointed in “Grace of Monaco” as soon as she saw a first cut of the film, but these days, looking at her face the director couldn’t tell….

Most women have a story about being harassed or humiliated by a man. But women don’t get even by deciding to shoot all men. #YesAllWomen

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The teams have been announced for the D1 #RoadtoOmaha – the tournament that leads to the College World Series. Alas the Houston #Astros  didn’t make the cut. (Nor the Arizona Diamondbacks.)

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Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial has been postponed until late June as the Olympic athlete will now have a month long mental evaluation. Pistorius must be at the hospital at 9pm until 4pm Monday through Friday, with weekends off. Even LA celebrities accused of murder are thinking that’s a cushy deal

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Wasn’t #HappyMemorialDay an oxymoron?

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What’s more surprising, that the first no-hitter of the year was thrown by Josh Beckett, or that it wasn’t thrown against the Red Sox?

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Boston Red Sox have lost 10 in a row. Are they trying to set some kind of record for going worst to first back to worst?

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But what a difference a tradition of winning and losing make. Going into today, the Mets and the Cubs both had a -6 run differential for the year. The Yankees were 26-23, the Cubs 18-30

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#SofiaVergara and her fiance have split up. And millions of men around the world are thinking “There’s hope!”

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From Marc Ragovin:  “The Mets have fired their hitting coach, Dave Hudgens. We had a hitting coach? asked every member of the team.”

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Back to the serious stuff.  A couple questions, since this crazy guy in Santa Barbara even scared his parents, wouldn’t you think the police might have been able to do a quick check to see if he’d purchased weapons? And would the police have been more likely to search his apartment if he didn’t seem like a nice white boy?