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A sports humor blog covering the great state of California.

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• Friday Sports Roundup

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 14:23 in afl, arena bowl, barry bonds, detroit shock, golden state warriors, jimmy rollins, la sparks, mlb, monta ellis, nba, philadelphia phillies, san francisco giants

  First off, let's congratulate the Golden State Warriors for re-signing the new face of their Franchise, Mr. Monta Ellis. Baron who? Mr. Ellis just got one of the highest raises in NBA history, making ...

• Mamma Mia: Josh Childress Retire in Greece

  Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 03:11 in Atlanta Hawks, basketball, boston celtics, greece, josh childress, mamma mia, nba, olympiacos cfp, skopelos, stanford

  Mamma Mia...here you go again...my, my...Stanford really taught ya! One of our favorite Stanford-bred hoopstars, the #1 Josh Childress, is packing his fro and shipping it to the tropical paradise of S...

• NorCal vs. SoCal, NBA Style

  Posted on Saturday July 19th, 2008 at 01:47 in basketball, clippers, Kings, lakers, nba, norcal, socal, warriors

  Only in California could you have a battle between the northern part of the state and the southern part of the state. Just look at the Warriors and Clippers.Baron goes down, Elton Brand goes byebye, M...

• A Break Up Letter to My First Love…The NBA

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 00:11 in emo posts, nba, nba playoffs

  Dear NBA,I don’t exactly know how to say this. We’ve had so many amazing times with each other. I defended you against my friend’s so many times. When they told me to be with someone younger ...

• Dallas at New Orleans Game 1

  Posted on Saturday April 19th, 2008 at 17:51 in dallas mavericks, liveblog, nba, nba playoffs, New Orleans Hornets

  Well, we just had a gritty game where LeBron James fought out the toughness of the trash-talking Wizards to pull out Game 1. That was followed by one of the greatest NBA playoff games, EVER (not even ...

• Phoenix at San Antonio Game 1

  Posted on Saturday April 19th, 2008 at 14:05 in liveblog, nba, nba playoffs, phoenix suns, Playoffs, san antonio spurs

  You'll have to wait until the end of Cleveland-Washington for this one, and a little bit afterward for me to set it up. Hope you're not too disappointed.From The Play in CA, a California sports humor ...

• Time for April, May...and June Madness

  Posted on Friday April 18th, 2008 at 16:00 in announcement, liveblog, nba, nba playoffs

  Hey there kids,Bears Necessity here for the weekend. You might remember KC Cal (a freaking Golden Bear) wailing like a little schoolgirl over his atrocious picks and his UCLA Lovefest falling flat gra...

• Lakers - Suns Game Proves One Thing: NBA Players Still Hate Raja Bell

  Posted on Thursday February 21st, 2008 at 09:19 in a douche other than philip rivers, basketball, lakers, nba

  "Nice job taking him out, Shaq!"In his debut, Shaq scored 15 points, surpassing experts’ predictions that the only thing he would produce would be more racist Chinese jokes. I’m sure he’ll deli...

• When the Southwest Was One

  Posted on Wednesday February 20th, 2008 at 09:00 in gasol trade, kobe, lakers, nba

  "Is it time yet?" Remember the glory days of the Lakers? The Shaq-Kobe dynasty, Robert Horry’s timeless game winning 3 pointers, the impeccable triangle offense… ah to be 16 again… Unfortunatel...