This Just Isn't Right

You Know It's A Slow Sports Week When The Flavor Of Shaq's @$$ Gets a Twenty Minute Segment On SportsCenter

Shaq freestyled (loose use of the term). TMZ was there. ESPN actually put this on the air.

Round One To The North

Fri, Jun 20
CWS 3
CUBS 4

Sat, Jun 21
CWS 7
CUBS 11

Sun, Jun 22
CWS 1
CUBS 7

(Round two starts Friday on the South Side.)

Another Boring Pacer Trade That Wouldn't Really Make Any Sense or: Maybe Larry Bird Is Just Trying To Danny Ainge Us

A young, usually broken point guard for an old, permanently broken power forward? Thanks, but no thanks. The Indiana Pacers are allegedly in discussion with the Toronto Raptors to ship their six-time All-Star and franchise player, Jermaine O'Neal out of Indy for the decidedly underwhelming T.J. Ford. Ford, a slightly above average floor general when he's not injured, has more than likely lost his starting spot to Jose Calderon and has also been mentioned in a possible swap with the Suns for Boris Diaw. The Pacers have already suffered through one point guard who shows flashes of semi-greatness but spends more time on the trainer's table than on the court. The last thing they need is a reload of Jamaal Tinsley. Why not look closer for trade options? The neighboring Chicago Bulls are in desperate need of a scoring big man and veteran leadership. They have more undersized guards than Amy Winehouse has scabies and are about to draft another one with the first pick in the draft. Kirk Hinrich has a similarly cumbersome contract to O'Neal's and is much less likely than Ford to be walking on plastic ankles by age thirty. The Pacers also have the option of taking D.J. Augustin with the 11th pick in the draft, but acquiring a point guard through a trade would free them up to fill another need... every position on the floor that can't be played by Danny Granger.

The Itsy Bitsy Stack

Incredible Hercules #118
Alien shape-shifting cyborg coyote puppies and hot weepy demigod on demigod action. What's not to like? (A)

Wolverine #66
I like the Hillbilly Hulks and it seems like this will be a fun one, but not much happened in the first issue of Millar's epic. (B+)

X-Factor #32
The first era of Peter David's new X-Factor has come to an end in a fairly unspectacular manner and I'm really not looking forward to the She-Hulk Skrull crossover... or Longshot and Hip Hop Darwin (B)

Amazing Spider-Man #563
I get it. Quesada doesn't like smoking. Apparently sharing that viewpoint is all you need to write Marvel's highest profile character, cuz you definitely don't need skill. (D)

Pie!

From: Beards Of Our Forefathers:
A Collection of Wondermark Comic Strips

Done

You'd think all that money he held out for his rookie season could have paid for a taxi.

Chicago Sports Update

The Cubs are still number one in baseball after inexplicably splitting the weekend series against the mediocre Dodgers. Their pitching continues to look shaky, especially with The Large Mammal's blood at a constant frothy boil.

The Southsiders' bats woke up last weekend as they dropped 10, 11, and 12 runs in consecutive games on the Twins. Joe Crede had five home runs over the course of said games as Ozzie's latest tirade seems to have worked. With yet another win over Minnesota today, the Sox have chalked up seven in a row and lead the Central by 6.5 games.

After somehow not actually hiring Doug Collins, the Chicago Bulls have offered the head coaching job to the completely inexperienced Vinnie Del Negro. Best known for his stellar mullet, Vinnie takes over as the whacky rumors of trading the number one pick in the draft for Dwayne Wade and the number two pick have seemed to fade away.

Cedric Benson is in trouble with the law yet again, picking up a DWI in Texas on Saturday, hot on the heels of his drunken boating arrest about a month ago. Benson, who is now equally disappointing off of the field as he is on it may have played his last game for the floundering Bears.

Super Happy Lego Funtime

Check out some more of this dude's lego recreations of famous photographs here.

And in case you missed it, here's a collection of a ridiculous amount of custom made lego comic book characters.

Amanda Lucas Gets Done To Her What Every Self Respecting Star Wars / Indiana Jones Fan Wishes They Could Do To Her Father

So apparently George Lucas' daughter is some sort of MMA fighter... and apparently she's not a very good one. After her first match she looked like Darth Vader with his mask off. I guess her opponent, Nicki Kavanaugh, really really hates CG gophers.