Sports Thread for 6/16/09: The Quick Runthrough

The NBA Finals is deeply missed. The media is acting like the U.S Golf Open is starting tomorrow, when it starts on Thursday.

Bud Selig is right for saying this, but he also comes across, and is, trying to say "It's not fair, it's not my fault" once again. Selig needs to just stop being a baby and understand that he let all of this go on his watch before it was too late. Or, he learned from his friend George W. Bush

Self-regulation. Ain't that a wonderful term?

And this is why Tom Verducci is one of baseball's best writers.

Memo to current baseball players not like Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, and the other 102 players in that baseball survey who tested positive: Baseball doesn't keep your business private at all.

And Sosa testing positive for steroids is as big a shock as politicians cheating. Both of those things happened again today.

You know times have changed in sports when we consistently update this (via Sports Illustrated's website):
I'm sorry, no matter how much ESPN throws down my throw, I can't do college baseball.

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Boy, Josh McDonalds seems to be running everyone out of town, isn't he?

Dontell Stallworth is certainly praying to the Lord tonight. And if he isn't, he should be.

The sad story of Ryan Leaf get's sadder and sadder .

Boy, did Gisueppi Rossi care about his homeland or what yesterday with the way he scored, huh?

And Roger Federer is on facebook, just so you know.

Update: And Michael Phelps receives his first sponsorship deal since his smoking a bong story altered tight-wad people's perception of him.