OJ Mayo splits with Agent

Mayo has split with his agent and the runner who was supposedly hired to bring Mayo to the agent. It's the right move. Makes him look sincere when he says he didn't know what was going on. Reduces the media frenzy surrounding him a little bit. Showed he's willing to make a definitive stance and return to a focus on basketball. Not sure about his mom being so involved in the process though, NBA moms are usually the craziest people in players' lives. Anyway, she said this, "As a family, we decided to modify O.J.'s inner circle and allow him to solely focus on improving his game without distraction in a structured, disciplined environment."

Reading through the comments, I found this one particularly amusing:

G8RUSA (9 hours ago)
Alltell lets me modify my inner circle anytime I like without any hidden fees.

NBA Postseason Suggestions

This season's postseason just proves my continuing argument that the NBA needs to reconsider their playoff format. Their most recent mistake was making the first round best-of-seven series instead of best-of-five. This enhances the top seed's chances to win. My suggestion is to throw out the first round completely. What would this do? It would eliminate almost two and a half weeks of the NBA postseason. It would make the regular season more meaningful. It would eliminate teams with sub-.500 records competing in the postseason. It, in my opinion, would make the postseason better to watch. Looking at this years results thus far, no lower seeded team has won a series, including the conferences semi-finals. Sure, there was Golden State over Dallas last year and that was fun to watch. Was it worth the two and a half weeks? No. Even if Stern does not want to get rid of the first round, he desperately needs to move it back to five games. In EVERY series this year, including the conference semi-finals, every team that has led the series after FIVE games has won the best-of-seven series. None of this will ever change because of money, but just think about how successful baseball pennant races are and only 8 out of 30 teams make the playoffs rather than 16 out of 32. With that being said, I look forward to watching the remaining series, now that they actually mean something.

NFL News - sad state of affairs

When I use the term "affairs" I mean just that. Take a look at this list of NFL local news stories. As of 5/16/08 the breakdown was such:

2 - injury updates
8 - legal/offense issues
9 - depth chart/signings
6 - contract disputes
4 - spygate
1 - steroids

There were some other stories assorted in there. It's sad that at a time of the year that teams should be focusing on fielding a competitve team in the fall, there is so much about contracts and legal issues, spygate and steroids. The NFL may have cleaned up its act, but it still has a ways to go.

I'm proud to say the Texans had no news stories concerning any problems on this page, just one about a position coach pushing his young players.

Houston news report #2 - May 2008

I hadn't posted this yet. Here's a couple news stories from a couple months ago.

You can't make this stuff up.

3 Kingwood teens accused of abusing corpse
"Kevin Wade Jones, 17, and Matthew Richard Gonzalez, 17, both of Kingwood, told Houston police that around March 15 they and a 16-year old juvenile dug up a grave, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a "bong," a device used to smoke marijuana, according to court documents."

Not in Texas, but no less ridiculous. Jim Bob has been gettin' busy.

I bet Eight Belles would be delicious. Short article, but two quotes from this one.
" 'Mexico kills horses, whether we like it or not, and people in France eat them. And sometimes the slaughterhouses like to ship the meat out of Corpus or Houston,' Chisum said."
"American Airlines has stopped shipping horse meat from Texas, said airline spokesman Tim Wagner."

“the Sinkhole de Mayo,” People in East Texas are pretty clever with their nicknames.

Tyler's Leap

Much discussion has been made over Tyler Hansborough's leap from a second floor balcony into a pool. Most of the columnists are calling this a horrible decision, saying he is costing himself thousands of dollars. I have gone back and forth over this issue, but when he decided to stay in school I commended him and although I don't commend him for taking the plunge, I am not going to get all over him. Roy Williams has a reason to be pissed, but would he rather have Tyler jumping into pools or jumping into the draft? Hansborough has had a great career and he most likely will not be a good NBA player. He is enjoying his life in college and I applaud him for that. Sure he could have broken a leg or hurt himself in this act, but he also could hurt himself doing a lot of other things. I know little about Tyler and have no clue what other stupid stuff he does, but if this is the extent of his stupidity then I say get off his back. He wasn't putting others in danger like many other college students that drink and get behind the wheel or decide to throw haymakers in a bar. If Micheal Beasley had done this, I would have had a different feel. The truth is Tyler is one of the great college basketball players (his number has already been approved to be retired at UNC) and he actually fufilled his committment to the university to play basketball for four years. If college basketball players aren't allowed to act like college students once in awhile, then they might as well get rid of the one-year rule and let high school players go straight to the NBA. So much is discussed of players being student-athletes. Tyler was simply living up the student part of that as much of college basketball players don't. Part of being a college student is having a few beers and doing something stupid while you are still young and fearless. Im sure Tyler will look back in thirty years and say his time at UNC was the best time of his life. He can always reside in Chapel Hill and open a car dealership. There is one thing I am upset with Tyler about. Stay away from the fratertinity man. You have to know someone else with a two-story balcony.

I just realized I misspelled Hansbrough the entire entry. Sorry "brough".