Thank goodness this isn't single elimination...

Lets get serious here for a minute. USA Basketball was a disgrace today in Athens. There are a bunch of reasons why, let me spell them out for Larry Brown & the rest of the NBA in case they weren't sure after getting spanked by Italy & now Puerto Rico:

Lamar Odom looks for his skill.

1. Where's Shaq? I hate the Lakers as much as anybody, but now that Shaq's chillin in Miami the U.S. is missing one of the best big players the game's ever had. Tim Duncan, Odom & Boozer are good big men, but there's no reason why Boozer should be there instead of Shaq--I don't care if he declined.

2. Where's Tracy Mcgrady? Don't tell me he's going back to college (again)...T-Mac delivers...better than that Wade guy.


3. Leaving Carmelo Anthony on the bench for pretty much the entire game while LeBron James plays pretty much the whole game. Guess what Larry, 'Melo is better than King James & you don't know it.



4. Letting Stoudamire sit the entire game after not getting hot while on the floor.
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Orange Juice & free Wi-Fi...

In other news, T-mobile is giving Floridians (people from Florida) free Wi-Fi access, which is cool since hurricaine Charley took out a reported 280-800,000 acres of citrus growing area. The only catch is that most of those hotspots are in Starbucks coffee shops.

If anybody is unemployed and looking for a job here in Portland you might be able to get this from Oregonlive.com :



And speaking of pictures (oh sorry were we?) here's a shot I took a couple weeks ago of an iPod...