Black people don’t usually watch the Academy Awards, aka the Oscars, unless their own are being nominated. Sunday night Facebook was buzzing, like it usually does on important awards or Obama night. We all were tuned into to see if supporting actress favorite Monique did the expected. The woman whose “fout filtt mouth” (as my mom would describe) was once the reason I couldn’t watch “The Queens of Comedy”, took the stage in Hollywood to accept the award most blacks were crossing their fingers for.

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The arrogance of Philadelphia Eagles President Joe Banner reminds me of a scene in The Usual Suspects where agent Kujan tells Roger “Verbal” Kent that he’s “Smarter than him”. In the end Kujan was outsmarted by a con man who used his office as a canvas to paint a story of deception and violence while playing the role of flunkie.

Are the Eagles taking this ho-hum approach because of the non-cap season?

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The Chris Murray guess spot on what to do when the foot is on you…

To me, the best revenge in sports or in anything in life is success or winning the next time you take the field or court. If you’re a team or an athlete and you feel aggrieved because you didn’t get the right ranking or your opponent talked too much trash when he slammed dunked on you or your opponent, who was already up by three touchdowns with one minute left, scores one more touchdown to run up the score, don’t get mad or complain.

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The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

A.E. Houseman ‘To An Athlete Dying Young’

For twenty springs, I have remembered the man, the moment and his memory. Embracing who he was and what he meant to a neighborhood, a city and a university. Every year I seem to hold on a little tighter.

I hold on because I can’t let go of Hank Gathers.

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This was a great battle. As I said on Twitter, it basically came down to a charge called on Kobe that changed the game’s complexion when it seemed the Lakers would at least trade buckets with the Heat. Kobe was spectacular, but he played 47 minutes. Do you agree with Phil playing him so much on the road?

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1984. Shock becomes distaste.

In a crazy best of five first round series, the Sixers are ousted three games to two by Micheal Ray Richardson, Otis Birdsong and the New Jersey Nets a year after sweeping the Lakers and claiming their first championship since the days of Wilt and Hal Greer. The city goes mad and the organization searches for a fall guy. Inexplicably, Harold Katz pulls the trigger on a trade that sends TWO FIRST ROUND PICKS, Moses Malone and Terry Catledge to the Washington Bullets for oft-injured Jeff Ruland and shooting forward Cliff Robinson. Robinson becomes the key cog in the trade as Ruland plays a total of 7 games for Philadelphia. Moses puts in 50 in his Philadelphia return and is considered one of the best centers of all time. Trust there are a heap of Sixers (Barkley, Brad Daugherty) trades that still boils the blood but I will not stab myself in the back with the same old knife. Cough, cough…Wilt…cough cough. See, I’m still sick.

Of course I have many dubious transaction horrors screaming in and out of my mind over the years but what are yours? Here’s Okori’s thoughts. He breaks it down more thoroughly:

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