2/26: Won't Trade Places With Smues This Winter
7:30 p.m.
• I don't know how Smues can do it -- I'm already sick of the snow and it hasn't really been all that bad a season (so far).
• Bad break for the Rockets. I've always liked Yao and T-Mac -- even though neither can get out of the first round of the playoffs.
All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, a stunning blow to the surging Houston Rockets. General manager Daryl Morey made the announcement Tuesday, hours before the Rockets put their 12-game winning streak on the line against the Washington Wizards.
• I have no clue who any of these people are, but Mark Madden said on his radio show today that he didn't like the trades. He follows this stuff much more than I do. All I have to say is that it feels weird for a Pittsburgh team to be active at the trade deadline trying to get talent for the here and now rather than dumping payroll and snagging "prospects."
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired forward Marian Hossa from Atlanta in a trade that sent forwards Colby Armstrong and Eric Christensen to the Thrashers.
The Penguins made the move to add another proven scorer to Sidney Crosby's line once their star returns from an ankle injury.
The Penguins also get forward Pascal Dupuis while the Thrashers acquire prospect Angelo Esposito, Pittsburgh's first-round pick in the 2007 draft, and a first-round draft pick.
In a separate trade, the Penguins acquired defenseman Hal Gill from Toronto for second- and fifth-round draft picks.
• Now I really don't care for the Black Crowes, but shouldn't you at least listen to a band's entire album before giving a review?
Maxim magazine has apologized for publishing a negative review of the Black Crowes' new album by a writer who hadn't listened to the whole CD.
The review in Maxim's March issue gives the Crowes' "Warpaint" a rating of two-and-a-half stars out of five. The band posted an exasperated statement on their Web site last week, saying the Maxim writer hadn't heard the entire album because advance copies weren't available. The Crowes' manager, Pete Angelus, said the magazine explained that its review was an "educated guess."
I remember years ago a local film critic panned Halloween H2O but gave an inaccurate body count because he showed up to the film late. SPOILERZ~! Myers offed a couple kids in the early minutes and the critic made some remark about how so few people died and counted two less dead than there actually was (or whatever the miscount turned out to be). SPOILERZ~! That's all I got for this.
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