Joe T., always working hard…
By Joe Torosian
Kick it!
In five years, everyone will be watching the WNBA.
I said it.
We will all be watching the Wemby National Basketball Association. (WNBA)
What can you add to Victor Wembanyama’s 41-point, 24-rebound performance while playing 49 minutes?
Nothing.
Last Add Wemby: He’s got the size, he’s got the talent, but it all works because he has a Jordan-like spite to his game. The dude didn’t grow into a basketball career. Instead, he was a basketball player who grew.
OKC plays great defense, that’s a great team, and the Spurs were exhausted in the fourth…but San Antonio found what it needed in double-OT.
Best way to watch a great basketball game? Have no emotional investment in either team.
And now I’m looking for a plausible exit off the Knicks bandwagon.
Watched the Washington Mystics & Dallas Wings play. Paige Bueckers is probably the most efficient player in the WNBA, and she absolutely shut down Sonia Citron.
With that said, as good as Bueckers is, she’s not a must-see.
Since I’ve got, legitimately, more Native American blood in me than Liz “I’m Gonna Have A Beer” Warren, I’m highly offended by the state of California forcing all public schools to drop mascots they deem offensive.
Like (language warning) the Arcadia Apaches, and Baldwin Park Braves.
I know, right? Just hearing those titles puts us all on the verge of a crying selfie in our car. (Blank that Trump!)
If you want a terrifying team name, make your mascot the “White Liberals”….truly an unstoppable force. The girls’ teams can be called the “Karens.”
Last Add Knicks: For a mere $632, you can attend the Cavaliers-Knicks opener at Madison Square Garden. Of course, you’ll be sitting in the Hoboken Section, but you’ll be at the game.
Ohtani, Betts, Freeman, Tucker, Smith, Muncy, and Pages combined for five hits and zero runs in the Dodgers’ 1-0 loss to the Padres last night.
#48—May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth…
Last Add WNBA: This will sound silly, but one thing that really drags this league down—the current league, not the future Wembanyama National Basketball Association—is a lack of hands.
Turnovers are bad, but they become toxic to the eyes when they occur after a great pass.
If it could be improved by 50%, it could change many opinions about the women’s game.
Note to Netflix: I don’t need to see Gina Carano versus Ronda Rousey…I don’t need to see Floyd Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao duke it out from the wheelchairs…But what would be an interesting fight?
Chet Holmgren versus Victor Wembanyama.
The Dude abides…
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As a Celtic American, I’m offended by that Boston basketball team using a soft C rather than a hard C.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish is very offensive as to imply that all Irish fight. Perhaps Notre Dame Drunken Irish would be more apropos.
Does this mean Vikings, Trojans, Spartans, Gauls (sorry Webb), Cossacks, Highlanders, Tartans, et al. also be forced to replace their mascots?
I’m sure PETA will have all of those animal mascots change as well.
To the California state legislature, how about improving roads, schools, and other infrastructure instead of all this virtual signaling.
From Joe T.: Didn’t I tell you about Ireland? It’s my island. I am the most wanted man on my island, but…I am not on my island. More’s the pity.
Those stats posted by Victor Wembanyama are Wilt Chamberlain-type numbers, and I’m talking about Wilt Chamberlain when he was at his peak in the 1960’s.
The truly scary part for his opponents is that Wembanyama is only 22 years old. I think he can also be compared to a young Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was an NBA sensation in the early 1970’s.
From Joe T.: That pull up three he hit late took my breath away. You could tell he was exhausted and he played through it…I really like his grit.
@ Question Mark: “Dodgers” were people in Brooklyn, including baseball players, who had to step away from the tracks to avoid being hit by approaching trolley cars. In fact, before Ebbetts Field was built, the Dodgers played at a ballpark which had a trolley line running through the outfield. So, for a brief time, the team was known as the Trolley Dodgers.
In 1958, the Dodgers fittingly moved to Los Angeles, where the residents were already accustomed to dodging freeway and street traffic.
As a powerful but short of stature person a resent my sons baseball leagues titled Midgets and PeeWees.
And what exactly is a Dodger?
Arcadia is appealing the decision. The White Mountain Apache Tribe has publicly expressed strong opposition to the change. Tribal Chairwoman Gwendena Lee‑Gatewood stated that the Apache name is a “storyteller” that connects Arcadia High School to American history. They are going to appeal it in hopes that the district may reverse or delay the July 2026 deadline and potentially keep the Apache name in use for the foreseeable future. Baldwin Park should so the same but as of yet has not to my knowledge.
Quiet piggy.
The Redskins is about as offensive and derogatory a nickname as you can get. Defending that mascot exposes bigotry.
But Braves, Chiefs, Seminoles, Apaches, Aztecs, …. IMO, those mascots actually show honor to Native populations of the Americas.
I will always be an Apache no matter what the touchy feelies say in Excramento