Patrick Hruby bitches about the flaws in sports video games and then gets some valuable insight from game designers.

Quoted: It's not them. It's us. "Here's the problem," says a basketball game developer. "If I'm Steve Nash and you're KG and you post me up, in reality, when KG turns, Nash can't do anything but watch. But in a game, if the user hits the jump button, he thinks that jump button should do something. No matter what. And we have to account for that." In other words? Keep stabbing that block button!

Somehow Scoop, I think all the NYC point guards that ever made the NBA, if only for a cup of coffee, would vehemently disagree.

I can't imagine Andre Barrett, who played at Seton Hall about 10 years ago, is walking on sunshine because he score 68 points in New York pickup game two weeks ago. And I'd bet my bottom dollar he'd trade that for a 10 day contract in the NBA.

Quoted: Because unlike any other place on this planet, having a million people in New York know who you are and what you do is more rewarding than having a million people around the country watch you on TNT or collecting a check with a million dollars on it.

Quoted: What's the point in being Jamaal Tinsley, a quasi-respected midlevel starting point guard for the Pacers, but having no one north of 110th Street honor you as dude in the summer, when you could be Kenny Satterfield or Andre Barrett, who dropped 68 and 66 points, respectively, in a Hoops in the Sun tournament game in the Bronx two weeks ago, and get love so unconditional that people riding the 6 uptown with you start rating you as the basketball equivalent of Zeus?

The Packers should grant a conditional release, so that he has to go to a team in the NFC. That way when he throws that back breaking playoff INT they'll have a chance to benefit from it for once.

Quoted: Three days after a conference call with Packers officials on Tuesday in which Brett Favre emphatically expressed his desire to play in 2008, Favre on Friday formally asked for his contractual release.

I would think this news should start quite the riot over in Jenison/Hudsonville.

Quoted: Clippers center Chris Kaman has received German citizenship and will team up with Dirk Nowitzki for Germany at an Olympic qualifying tournament later this month.

This Christian news site uses word substitution to filter its news stories. One such filter is to change the word "gay" to "homosexual". After Tyson Gay's performance at this weekend's Olympic track and field trials, hilarity ensued.

Quoted: Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday. His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999.

You've got to love situational faith. Apparently voting is prohibited, but flying around the world to make millions of dollars, attend red carpet events and award shows is not.

Quoted: Serena Williams would vote for Barack Obama if she could. Don't even ask Venus Williams what her political leanings are..."I'm a Jehovah's Witness, so I don't get involved in politics. We stay neutral. We don't vote," she said. "So I'm not going to necessarily go out and vote for him. I would if it wasn't for my religion."

This is the story Javon Walker is allegedly telling in regards to his recent robbery:

Quoted: “I was just back at my room and at about 5:30 in the morning I got a knock at the door. I opened it and 3 guys with guns were there. They cracked me in the head a few times, knocking me unconscious. They then robbed me of everything I had; my watch, money, everything! Somehow they got me to a car and dropped me off in the street. That’s what happened.”

The name of his hotel? The Bellagio in Las Vegas. Somehow nobody saw any of this?

Yeah well its a week too late. I've already switched to the new AT&T U-Verse. Suck it Comcast.

Quoted: The long-running feud between the Big Ten Network and Comcast appears to be almost over. The two sides are very close to an agreement, expected to be signed and announced as soon as this week, multiple industry sources told the Free Press today.

When I watch the replay (http://soccervisions.blogspot.com/2008/06/holland-vs-italy.html) I am absolutely convinced that this was the right call. Panucci was not involved in the play, but plays like this are exactly the reason FIFA changed the rule to say that players must be officially sent off by the referee in order to count as inactive for the purpose of offsides.

I will admit to having a bias against Italy, but it seems clear to me that Panucci made no effort to recover from a relatively minor collision with his own keeper, in hopes that it would result in the Dutch being called offside. Its the Italian way.

Quoted: Premier League referees chief Keith Hackett says Ruud van Nistelrooy's controversial opening goal for the Netherlands against Italy was legitimate.