Jamie Mottram's Sports Blog - www.misterirrelevant.com

Aside from myself, the only other AOL guy focused on FanHouse is John Clifford Ness, and each weekday he sends email to industry types showcasing our site's best posts from the day that was. He also publishes these emails to his blog under the tag 'FanHaus AM Memo.' Since John is getting his Sideways on in northern California right now, I'm handling the duties this week. The memo usually contains upwards of 50 links, so here are my ultra-favorites, along with a smattering of commentary ...

· All you need to know about last night's Lottery is told in Tom Ziller's live blog and, subsequently, The Big Lead's mock draft ("Portland will take Durant"). Of course, you could also just watch Celtics fans suffer.

· Shaq grooves to Bon Jovi in Vegas.

· The dog fighting saga continues as Clinton Portis keeps talking and Michael Vick keeps not talking. And just this morning MJD throws down in The Debriefing with a discussion on horse racing vs. dog fighting.

· Yet another dip in the rollercoaster career of the Giambino: a report that he failed an amphetamines test.

· This story so reminds me of Jason Street suing the Dillon Panthers on Friday Night Lights.

· Denny McLain discusses the '68 Tigers banging stewardesses.

· Roy Hibbert returns to Georgetown, which I've been rooting for all along. I'm also rooting for Jeff Green to stay in the Draft and slide to Washington at 16.

· College football awesomeness: Spurrier pisses on Augusta, Sanjaya hearts UCLA and everyone's favorite Song Girl leaves USC.

· Men's Fitness is desirous of a beefed up Andy Roddick.

Finally, Chris Drury and the Sabres get their Animal House on, which is fine by me. Speaking of, pop quiz, who's in the Stanley Cup Finals right now? No cheating!

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• #2 Comment from monponsett 
  5/23/07 11:38 AM | Permalink

  "Temple Money Changer" is more of a "someone profaning something I hold sacred" than anything Anti-Semitic, at least by intent.
• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  5/23/07 11:32 AM | Permalink

  Note the 1/2 Peace sign that I put in the "Watch Celtics Fans Suffer" comment section.
  
  I didn't type that. I just stared at the screen, and it appeared.
  
  I also called Mutoni a Wop SOB, but he deserved it.
  
  This lottery served one purpose only... it prevented the Pacific NW from being shaved off the NBA map. Seattle gets a stadium, and degenerate Portland gets an Aw-Shucks kid from the Midwest.
  
  The fact that the towns hoping to lure the Sonics will now have to get expansion teams via a GNP-sized entry fee is just the icing on the cake. Save money to make money... just like the Temple Money Changer that Stern is.
  
  My sources tell me that Stern actually strangled his family dog just before the Lottery, just to keep himself from laughing on ESPN during the Sham itself.
  
  You can buy a collie anywhere. Patching the NBA back onto Cascadia would take decades. He fixed it in a 10 minute Lottery.
  
  And Boston get fu<ked, just like 1997. I hope that Oden gets raped by a Sasquatch.
  
  I'll be leaving sports blogging for a while. I plan to re-write "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, twisting it so that Danny Ainge takes Boston's symbolic Hutchinson stoning at the hands of a Mr. Stern. I may try to sell it as an Afterschool Special.