Welcome to a brand new monthly feature here at Pacman Jonesin’ called Snap Takes & Sinister Spin. The feature was inspired by a tweet from the Twitter account of the bronzed and stylish @RicBucher. While we do like to kid Ric (screw the K at the end, who needs it), his NBA commentary, sideline reports and insights are really topnotch. Snap Take I: Mike Brown coaches the best basketball player on the planet and doesn’t have a clue how to use him! Snap Take II: How many times is Brown going to continue to instuct LeBron to go 1 on 5 or run [...]
Oct 29th 2009
The NBA: Where The Fix Is In
Faux Twitter Tweet of the Day Take this money and don’t print Tim Donaghy’s book or else you’ll wake up with Violet Palmer’s a horse’s head in your bed. David Stern October 29th Um Houston, I think we have a problem. Excerpts of former referee Tim Donaghy’s new book Blowing The Whistle: The Culture Of Fraud In The NBA were posted yesterday and some of the revelations are quite damning…to say the least: To have a little fun at the expense of the worst troublemakers, the referees working the game would sometimes make a modest friendly wager amongst themselves: first ref to [...]
Yankees vs. Phillies. Game 1. Don’t watch the insipid commercials…check out the following links instead: Nick Swisher may need to take a page out of Steve Phillips’ playbook Babes Love Baseball The Egregious 8: Wait, Garrett Morris isn’t the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Gunaxin Checking in on the chimps at the BCS Global Sports Fraternity The Boston Celtics looked good last night vs. LeBron & Co. Josh Q. Public The Orlando Magic open the season tonight against the 76ers and Ryan Anderson (the next Dirk Nowitzki?) is in the starting lineup Howard The Dunk How does your favorite NFL team stack up [...]
Oct 28th 2009
Top Television Characters In History – The Next 20
The countdown to 100 continues. Click here and here if you missed the first 40 characters. Here we go… 41. Homer Simpson 42. Michael Bluth 43. Tobias Funke 44. Bart Simpson 45. Hank Moody 46. Newman 47. Lucille Bluth 48. Estelle Costanza 49. Johnny Drama (Chase) 50. Christian Troy (the first two seasons; haven’t watched since then) 51. Charlie Runkle 52. Stewie Griffin 53. Jerry Seinfeld 54. Felix Unger 55. Kevin Beekin 56. Marty Shonson 57. Alan Finger 58. Peter Griffin 59. Frank Costanza 60. Joan Holloway
Oct 27th 2009
The PC Police Are Out In Force These Days
Bob Griese’s attempt at humor over the weekend was certainly inappropriate and ill advised. Was it a racist comment though? Did he deserve to be suspended for a week? Absolutely not. It’s just another example of the PC Police being completely out of control in this country. Griese apologized for the unfortunate remark. Let’s just turn the page, shall we? How out of control has it gotten? Well, within the past few days we’ve had the Griese incident, the hens from “The View” harping on Barack Obama for playing pick-up basketball with his Boys Club and Kansas City running back Larry Johnson’s impending suspension for using the word faggots. [...]
Oct 27th 2009
Can Brian Scalabrine lead the Celtics to a title?
Faux Twitter Tweet of the Day Big Baby’s injury will enable me to lead the Celtics to another championship & prove that I’m an elite player like LeBron, Kobe and DWade. Brian Scalabrine October 27th A Few Quick Predictions The start of the NBA season is now only a couple hours away and it’s time to go on the record: MVP: Chris Paul ROY: Tyreke Evans Coach of the Year: Flip Saunders Sleepers: Washington Wizards, Toronto Raptors and the Los Angeles Clippers (despite the injury to Blake Griffin) Overhyped team: Oklahoma City Thunder – there is no way Kevin Durant & Co. will make [...]
Oct 26th 2009
Steve Phillips To Enter Chubby Chaser Anonymous
Faux Twitter Tweet of the Day My choice of road beef was an embarrassment to ESPN and I will seek treatment for an addiction to plus sized production assistants. Steve Phillips October 26th Less than a week after acknowledging a relationship with a 22-year old production assistant, Steve Phillips has been fired. Last night, ESPN network spokesman Josh Krulewitz released the following statement about the termination: “Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN. His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably damaged, and it became evident it was time to part ways.” Was Phillips fired for [...]
Oct 24th 2009
Top Television Characters In History – The Next 15
As we suspected, a number of people took issue with the Top 25 list posted earlier this week. When it’s all said and done, we’ll get to the Top 100, but here are the next 15 best television characters in history… 26. Omar Little 27. Louis DePalma 28. Murray Hewitt 29. Eric Cartman 30. Artie (from “The Larry Sanders Show”) 31. Jimmy McNulty 32. George “Gob” Bluth 33. Alex P. Keaton 34. Paulie Walnuts 35. Tracy Jordan 36. Al Bundy 37. Liz Lemon 38. Cosmo Kramer 39. Devon Banks (props to Will Arnett) 40. Josh Lyman
