Friday Afternoon Fracas: 5-30-08

It's Friday. The work week's winding down -- for some -- and booze consumption rates are about to skyrocket for us in the spheres of sportsbloggery (Editor's Note: Skyrocket, in House of Georges terminology, is synonymous with the phrase "maintain normal levels."). That said, it's time for a look around the more general, less boring wide world of sports. One can do so, if one's so inclined, after the jump.


The guys at the Sports Point make some points about playoff hockey scheduling. Unfortunately for them, they're all wrong.

In NBA Western Conference Finals news, the Lakers knocked off defending-champion San Antonio, and there was some beef with the last shot. Or something.

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(courtesy of Awful Announcing)

Elsewhere in hoopage, Nation of Islam doesn't like what Jason Whitlock has to say about the NBA playoffs, and suggests that he may have singled out Rasheed Wallace.



(story courtesy of The Big Lead)

In baseball news, UmpBump has a great series going entitled "What They Need." So far, they've covered the Braves.

Speaking of what they need, some fans at a Rays game needed a ball boy to step in and prevent some decapitation. In the same game, B.J. Upton makes a phenomenal catch.



(clip courtesy of Bugs and Cranks)

And in HoG-related news, Deadspin shares that the Rocky Mountain News has uncovered some crucial evidence in the Darrent Williams murder case,

and The Kansas City Star throws out some more tired tag lines suggesting that the starting-quarterback job is Brodie Croyle's to lose/the Chiefs' struggles last year were associated with Croyle's inefficiences in this story.