Organizational Incompetence, Thy Name is Chicago Bulls. I woke up this morning having to make sure that yesterday was not some kind of pollen-induced dream. But no! Yesterday’s Bulls stuff actually happened. It was all real. I’m sure we’ve all heard Adrian Wojnarowski’s story of the John Paxson-Vinny Del Negro shoving match by now. But we can’t let an occasion this momentous pass without me writing a 3,000 words on how incompetent the Bulls are. I feel like this is a yearly passage, but never has it been so obvious. [Tremendous Upside Potential]
* Kyle Singler Looks Back at Butler and Looks Forward at NBA. “It’s kind of scrambled – just from the emotion of winning a national championship and then having the opportunity to enter your name in the draft, it’s just kind of scrambled. Now I am going to have to take a couple days to gather some information and just kind of thinking about it. I would say my decision is a week away – maybe less than that. I really don’t have any idea what I am going to do. I am going to listen to my parents. I trust their advice. I trust coach’s too. I’m just going to have to listen to what they have to say and make a decision that feels right.” [Sports Radio Interviews]
More fun items following the jump.
* Onion Sports Network Is Comedy Central Bound. Comedy Central is the latest to take the gamble by bringing on the Onion Sports Network for a 10-episode run of 30-minute shows beginning next year. It’s not the first time the network has tried the concept, years ago unsuccessfully attempting to adapt the Daily Show format into a sports show. That never made it to air, but this new proposed show benefits from bearing the ever-popular Onion brand. [The Sporting Blog]
* Grandpa Favre brought us jeans. Slap-happy grandpappy Brett Favre is feeling a twinge of guilt, seeing as how he still hasn’t told the Vikings whether he will return for another season with the team, and likely won’t until right before training camp ends in August. Actually, that’s not true, he just wants to plug one of his many sponsors, so he decided to have a pair of Wrangler jeans waiting for every member of the team who showed up at the team’s voluntary off-season workouts. That’s much better than Favre actually putting in effort. [With Leather]
* Female Tennis Player Weds, Gets Huge Tattoos. The biggest celebrity gossip story the past month in India and Pakistan – besides Bollywood – is the marriage of Indian pro women’s tennis player Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricket star Shoaib Malik. [SportsbyBrooks]
* EA Sports crowns Blackhawks; betting odds favor Caps. Last April, EA simulated the 2009 NHL playoffs with the Boston Bruins ending up Stanley Cup champions after a 37-year wait. They would defeat the Chicago Blackhawks in six games after dispatching the Washington Capitals in a seven-game Eastern Conference final. This year, EA is predicting that the Blackhawks will get their revenge for not only losing the ’09 EA Stanley Cup, but also the 1992 Finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins and end their 49-year Cup drought in the process. [Puck Daddy]
* They Still Really Love Matsui in New York. Even though he is a member of the team with the best record versus the Pinstripes in the last 15 years, Hideki Matsui is still a New York favorite. Godzilla is in town this week and this guy likes…eh…loves every second of it. [That Fan]
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