The Morning Wood - 06/28/2006

Studs: Les Bleus
After hearing Spain's asshole of a coach, Luis Aragones, try to "motivate" his players by using the "colloquial language" of racist remarks about French striker Thierry Henry, the Frenchies went out there and stuck it to Spain, 3-1, with Henry being influential on two of the goals. Aragones then promptly and appropriately handed in his resignation after the match. A double victory. There's nothing funny about this, just poetic justice, of sorts.

Dud: Roscoe Nance
This USAToday reporter recently released his 2006 NBA Mock Draft. In using his "expertise," he didn't give Rudy Gay a spot in the first round. Who is fact-checking this shit? USAToday, or, as I like to call it, the daily picture book for adults, has enough trouble maintaining journalistic respectability. Mistakes are fine, but this is a ridiculously egregious error. There hasn't been a prediction this poor since the third bullet in this Talk Around the Cooler. What an asshole. Thanks Chauncey.

Talk Around the Cooler:
There's nothing that I like better than drafts, and I'm unbelieveable excited for tonight. I think it's just the nature of the event: all the speculation, the hope for salvation, the hair, senile old men who command our attention, chronic masturbators, pseudo-intellectual honkies whose vocabulary is reduced to three words: "upside," "potential," and "length," and most importantly, the suits. Oh, the suits. And this year, we have the most brilliant man in sports. Oh yes, this is going to be quite the draft.

Quick Hits...

Good to see Andre Agassi win his first Wimbledon match. I'm pullin for him.

Pedro returns to Boston tonight, which might be the only scenario that would ever have me switch away from the NBA draft for even a second.

Everyone say a prayer for Peter Gammons. Not only is he probably the greatest analyst in all of sports, he has always been nothing less than a class act, and seems like a genuienly great guy.