Letters to the Editor
Dexter Fishmore
Published Letters: 15 Editor's Choice: 1
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Sitting Farmar
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King,
Although I agree with your general criticism of coaches who bench players rotely when they pick up their second or fourth fouls in the first or second halves, respectively, I think you misapply it to Ben Howland's decision to bench Jordan Farmar with about four minutes left in Saturday's game. At the time that Farmar picked up his fourth, he was (a) not playing well, having recently committed a couple sloppy turnovers, (b) visibly unhinged over what he perceived to be poor officiating, especially on his phantom-charge third foul, and (c) hurt, having bruised both of his wrists on the drive to the basket that resulted in the charge. Fourth foul or not, at the time that Howland benched Farmer, Darren Collison was simply the steadier, better option to run the point.
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Georgetown has to beat ANOTHER two seed??
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Congratulations to the Florida Gators on their mid-tournament promotion.
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Re: Final Four
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nope. It has never happened.
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The video was OK, I guess.
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But it could have used a football hitting someone in the groin.
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Hoc.... key??
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The subject matter of this column... I am unfamiliar with it.
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It's just another web page redesign, folks.
[Read the article: Gone in 100 seconds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It'll bother us all for a few days, then we'll get used to it and forget we ever minded.
(Until then, however: King, what's up with the new format, man? Seems like a solution to a problem that didn't exist.)
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OK, I'll say it.
[Read the article: Stars, Sharks put the time in overtime]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hoc-... key??
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And yet...
[Read the article: NBA coach caught coaching]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sideline reporters could talk to them from now until the Rapture, and NBA coaches still wouldn't say anything interesting.
"Coach, what does your team have to do in the second half to get back in this one?"
"Well, we gotta take better care of the ball... stay aggressive, just play our game... if we do those things and execute on offense, we'll be fine."
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Watching the Cavs makes Baby Jesus cry.
[Read the article: Pierce beats LeBron in a classic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King, I take issue with your calling this game a "classic." Yeah, it was a close Game Seven, and yeah, Pierce and LeBron were awesome, but for long stretches the quality of play was low. The Cavs in particular are brutal to watch: their offensive sets are a joke, they commit a ridiculous number of stupid defensive fouls when the ball's nowhere near the basket, and they give serious minutes to three or four guys about whom you wonder how they're even in the league.
I loathe the Celtics but found myself rooting for them yesterday, after concluding that allowing the Cavs to continue their season would be an unforgivable crime against basketball fans everywhere.
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Yes, the other 11 Lakers must hate playing with Kobe.
[Read the article: Schilling on Kobe: "Pissed off and ranting"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It must be awful, right? Being set up for dunks and open threes while the opposing D is collapsing on the league MVP? Winning 57 games in the Western Conference? Laying waste to Denver, Utah and San Antonio en route to the NBA Finals? Enjoying the adulation of the L.A. fans and media that comes with wearing a Laker uniform deep into June?
What a grim existence. No doubt Gasol wishes he were still in Memphis, where he didn't have to put up with such indignities. The others, no doubt, are preparing to demand trades to Charlotte and Milwaukee, where behavior counterproductive to winning simply isn't tolerated.
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Paul Pierce
[Read the article: (Feigned) death on the soccer pitch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]doesn't see what the big deal is.
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Coolifying Milwaukee
[Read the article: Aaay! Statue inflation spikes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Fonzie statue can work, but only if it depicts him jumping a shark on water skis. It would then be both a literal tribute to his coolness and a subtextual critique of the ballpark-statue trend.
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The real problem with Milli Vanilli....
[Read the article: Milli Vanilli plays Beijing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...is that they couldn't sing and they weren't cute enough. (My God, those biker shorts!) It also didn't help that they couldn't dance.
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This column was like a kid out there today!
[Read the article: ESPN just shows the game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King, today's column was very Favre-like. The readers in Green Bay are ecstatic!
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Notice of Erratum
[Read the article: NFL Week 4 picks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King, what's your source in claiming that the Browns have benched Anderson? Everything I've seen states that he's still the starting quarterback.