Where was this review when I was a freshman in high school? I could have blown my English teacher away without actually having to read the book.
He’s a Great Book! with Ozzie Guillen — Of Mice and Men from Dan Bulla on Vimeo.
Love the intro of Ozzie at the field, belting books out of the park.
There’s a good chance that both the NFL and NBA will be under lockout once the NBA’s current CBA expires on June 30. There hasn’t been much progress made in the NBA labor negotiations.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the union proposed a five-year deal in which the players would receive $100 million less per season in salaries, and the owners countered with a proposed 10-year deal that would set a target of $2 billion in player salaries each season — a reduction from the $2.17 billion the players earned in the 2010-11 season.
The same story says that the two sides are “several billion dollars apart” but it appears that the players are offering a $100 million per season reduction (for five seasons), which was deemed “modest” by commissioner David Stern, while the owners want $170 million per season (for 10 seasons). That’s a total difference of $1.2 billion ($70 million * 5 years + $170 million * 5 years) if one assumes that the players aren’t willing to give back any salary for years 6-10.
The NBA as a whole would benefit if contracts were shorter (max of four years instead of six) and weren’t fully guaranteed. A team should be able to cut an underperforming player and save (say, 50%) on the remaining years of his contract. That way, the player still benefits from the deal, but his contract isn’t an albatross that keeps the team from contending.
I’d also like to see a hard cap in the NBA. The NFL has a hard cap and there isn’t a league with better parity. Small market teams like Cleveland, Sacramento and Milwaukee have a tough time competing in today’s environment unless they luck out and land a player like LeBron James in the lottery. San Antonio and Oklahoma City are examples of how small market teams can compete, but the Spurs were lucky to win the #1 overall pick to draft Tim Duncan while the Thunder were fortunate to have Kevin Durant fall into their laps at #2. Without those two picks those franchises wouldn’t be any better than the Bucks or Kings. (Give credit to the Spurs and Thunder for not screwing up those picks, but those were pretty much no-brainer picks at the time, unlike the Bucks’ selection of Andrew Bogut at #1.) The soft cap enables big spenders like Mark Cuban continue to add salary until he finds the right mix of talent to win a title.
ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reports that wide receiver Terrell Owens underwent surgery within the past month to repair a torn ACL, leaving some to believe that his career may be over.
There are conflicting reports as to how T.O. suffered the injury. One source says he was hurt while taping a reality TV show for VH1, while another claims that he tore his knee during a personal workout. Either way, the injury has put the 37-year-old free agent’s career in jeopardy.
Best-case scenario he’s out for the next six months. That would put his return around November or December, which would basically wipe out his entire 2011 season. At that point, some team’s receiver corps may be decimated by injuries and take a one-month flier on T.O. But considering he was going to have a hard enough time trying to find a suitor when he was healthy, there’s a good chance that no team will take a shot on him coming off ACL surgery.
That said, T.O. has always been in outstanding physical condition. He takes extremely good care of his body and if he wants to play again, there’s no doubt that he’ll do everything in his power to be physically ready to come back.
But whether or not someone will take a chance on him when he does is another question altogether.
Shaquille Johnson is heading into his senior year, but he’s dunking like a pro. Let’s hope the rest of his game is just as good…
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