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This is gonna be a fun offseason. Avalanche is Coming. Don't know about Lebron going to the Dubs, but it'll help their leverage with Minnesota re: K-Love.

What's there to not like about Love? Tremendous shooting range. Excellent passer. Great footwork and bball IQ. Dominant rebounder. Solid in the post. Sufficient and underrated defender. His metrics are even better than the eye test. Easily a top 10 player and arguably top 5. He's getting a bad rap for wanting to bail on Minnesota, and for not showing strong leadership qualities, but then again, the situation in Minny was a result of poor front office performance, and is not indicative of his on court play.

Klinsmann was a minute away from earning the title of Dictator for Life.

Please Germany. Don't blow us out by 5 or 6 goals.

Welp.

Off the belly!!! Murrica.

DEMPSEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

JONESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Terrible. That's the sort of mistake you'd expect as an 8 year old playing co-ed soccer for PE.

Word. Tentacle pr0n manga and video games significantly spiked up world sales figures of octopus at live fish markets. THANKS A LOT Japan.

That's it. Korea is doomed. 3-0 Algeria, 37th minute.

Algeria up 2-0 in the 27th minute. Not looking good for S. Korea.

I caught the last 5 minutes. Looked good to me!

Tis.

Klose!!!!!!!'

Dammit Germany. Score more goals!! Need Ghana to lose!

Go Go Argentina!!

I'm done and ready to move on regarding Donald Sterling, but I have to link brilliant sports reporting when I see it. Courtesy of ESPN's Ramona Shelburne: http://m.espn.go.com/nba/story?storyId=11105717&src=desktop&rand=ref~%7B%22ref%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FfM8x8rFRu5%22%7D Good behind the scenes timeline involving the key players.

The Kansas City Royals have won 10 straight. The Kansas City Royals.

Heavy lurker back then and was only semi-active posting here and there; mostly in the Bio-centric boards all the way back to development of TotSC. That said, I stayed for the trolls. Good entertainment. Visceris, Volo, Grommy, Karzak, Sarggy et al. Plus Gaider and Sawyer were very active as well.

Cannot lie. I've shed many a man tear over this remarkable fat athlete with wood today.

More Tony Gwynn: http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2014/06/16/tony-gwynn-interview-july-2002-sometimes-technique-works-better-whole-lot-things/ -Q You had a great relationship with Ted Williams, but you’ve also said he could be very harsh in an instructive way. What was the toughest thing he said to you? -A Once, I was trying to explain to him why hitting the ball out of the ballpark for a hitter like me wasn’t that important. Because if you could handle both sides of the plate, all that matters is when they came in, you hit the ball hard somewhere, then they wouldn’t come in anymore. And he was livid. He said, “Major league history’s made on the ball inside.” It took me two years to figure out what he was talking about. But what he was saying was, when you hit a ball inside out of the ballpark, they don’t come in anymore. And my bread and butter was the ball away. Two years later, when I finally realized what he was talking about, I told him, “I have to thank you for giving me that piece of advice that you gave me, because it’s really made a huge difference.” And he looked at me and just winked. Didn’t say a word, just winked at me. It’s one of those moments, when it happened, I got a better understanding of how he felt. I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that’s probably the best way to do it . . . because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he’ll never forget it. ... http://grantland.com/the-triangle/tony-gwynn-1960-2014/ "Maddux was one of several pitchers who deftly described the challenge of retiring Gwynn at the plate. You didn’t get Tony Gwynn out, Maddux used to say. You threw it down the middle and prayed that he’d get himself out. When Tom Boswell wrote about Maddux’s approach to pitching, Mad Dog explained that the key was to change speeds. Maddux said he could outduel any hitter that way. “Except for that [expletive] Tony Gwynn.”

http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/story?storyId=11092918&src=desktop&rand=ref~%7B%22ref%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FtfJKKrhKDH%22%7D Nice piece on Gwynn by Buster Olney.

You weren't referring to any of us were you? Or maybe the Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless type knuckleheads?

Yeah, this is really sad. He seemed to really have been one of the truly good guys. I especially remember when him and Ted Williams got together and talked shop during an All Star weekend, and after that discussion, Tony started to make a conscious decision to try to hit more home runs.