The Aftermath

Wild one Saturday night in Birmingham. The Tigers played like, well, like, like, well, crap. The only guys who were worth anything were Antonio Anderson and CDR. CDR proved himself worth of being a first team all american. Robert Vaden was unbelievable for UAB. He will play in the NBA. Short summary: Tigers trailed 77-70 with 1:32 left. Anderson hits a 3, CDR hits a 3, Vaden makes 1 of 2 FT's, CDR hits a bucket and draws the foul. Vaden comes back down, throws up a wild shot, Kinnard follows it up with a made bucket but the buzzer had already sounded and UAB had just choked. Yes, they choked.

Pierre Niles then starts taunting the UAB fans, so does Shawn Taggart and so on and so on. Joey Dorsey had lost it and was about to kill someone. My thoughts are this: you do have to learn to control yourself in that situation. The fans have nothing to lose and the players have everything to lose. The only way I say it's ok to fight back is if someone spits on you. Some reports have said that Joey Dorsey was spit on. Why you would spit on Joey Dorsey I have no idea, but that was being reported. This doesn't have anything to do with where these kids are from or how they were brought up. You can go to Germantown and spit in a kid from the burbs and he's going to punch you. It's a man code. I bet Greg Paulus would hit someone if they spit on him. I'm not a fighting man either, but spitting crosses the line.

As for Pierre Niles. You didn't even play. What are you running your mouth for and slapping people? You are the biggest waste of space on the earth. You have talent, but no, you'd rather eat at Gus', Taco Bell and McDonalds. My guess is he gets suspended for the Tulane game on Wednesday and possibly the Tennessee game. Who cares thought, kick him off the team.

Pancakes

-Taylor/Pavlik II was worse than watching a Grizzlies game. I went up to Gills for this one and was pretty excited for it since I heard the first one was so good. This was a boring fight. Jermain Taylor kills boxing. He doesn't fight. I had people in the bar ask me who I was going for and I said: "Pavlik" everytime. They were shocked that I wouldn't go for the local guy. I don't like to root for guys that don't box. Pavlik will punch you. Taylor lays back. The point of boxing is to punch the other person in the face. Taylor does not understand that. Pavlik easily won. Who knows what Jermain Taylor does next. Pavlik threw twice as many punches.

-Dwight Howard was awesome in the dunk contest. Superman dunk was a bit overrated. He had the outfit and the showmanship to pull it off.

-Rudy Gay wasn't horrible. Well, his first dunk was horrible. His 2nd dunk was good. Either way, no surprise to see the Grizz disappoint again.

-LeBron wins MVP of the All Star Game. It wasn't the same not seeing KG, Kobe or Shaq out there.

-Tigers and Vols will meet as #1 and #2 this Saturday (8:00 on ESPN). Picking the Tigers, but they can't let Lofton get hot like last year.

-Mike Miller WILL be traded by the deadline.