Guys, these guys are not the Dallas Mavericks. They are not from Chicago. Jeez… It’s just Cleveland for crying out loud.

For a city whose ONLY other star aside from LeBron James is Drew Carry, and for a place that is home to such pathetic losers like the Browns, the Indians and yes, the Cavaliers, the Pistons should’ve ended this thing a couple of days ago.

Instead, the irritating Cleveland Cavaliers took advantage of Detroit’s mistakes in the final seconds of the last two games to even this seven-game NBA Eastern Conference Finals series, 2-2, and send it back to square one.

After the Dallas Mavericks got booted out by an eight-seeded team in the first round, Cleveland surviving Detroit after four games is the other thing that surprised me in the 2007 NBA Playoffs. (Yep, I always knew Miami will be swept by the Chicago Bulls the moment I saw the 2007 NBA playoff match-ups this year…)

In Games 3 and 4 of this Pistons - Cavaliers series, Cleveland took advantage of Detroit’s mental mistakes and probably the biggest one the Pistons made was that crucial turnover from…

Probably because the goddamn colt is still reeling over the way Curlin kicked his ass at Pimlico Race Course.

The 2007 Kentucky Derby champion, Street Sense, was working a half-mile jog at Churchill Downs. The colt looked good alright but his trainer, Carl Nafzger, still refuses to commit his colt to a rematch with the 2007 Preakness Stakes champ, Curlin, at Belmont Park on June 9.

The half-mile jog Street Sense completed a few days ago was the first strenuous workout since since he got his ass handed to him by Curlin at the Pimlico Race Course.

If Street Sense will opt out of the 2007 Belmont Stakes on June 9, then I guess it will just be a foot race between Curlin and Hard Spun.

Hard Spun finished second in the Derby before finishing third in the Preakness.

‘’Carl’s got him on the right track,'’ Street Sense’s jockey Calvin Borel said. ‘’It’s up to Carl now. He told me what to do with him this morning, and I did what he wanted. We’re just going to go from here. He’s as…'’

Kobe Bryant LOVES drama and controversy. Of course, we already knew that.

From his feud with then teammate Shaquille O’Neal, from his ‘’rape scandal'’ in Denver, Colorado, from his war of words with head coach Phil Jackson in the past and from changing his familiar No.8 to No.24 to build a ‘’new Kobe'’ so to speak, Kobe’s love to be talked about is like Dwyane Wade’s lust for Shaquille O’Neal’s ass.

Um… Maybe not. But the fact of the matter is Kobe Bryant loves the attention and guess what, the spotlight is on him again in spite of his team’s demise in the 2007 NBA Playoffs.

The Los Angeles Lakers may be out of this year’s postseason wars but that didn’t stop Kobe Bryant from making the headlines just recently. How did he do it? Well, asking to be traded and taking it back will certainly do that. Especially if you’re that one guy the Los Angeles Lakers gambled on after letting probably still the most dominant player in basketball, Shaquille O’Neal, go.

‘’I would like to be traded, yeah. Tough as it is to come to…'’

Barry Bonds is only NINE home runs away from eclipsing Hank Aaron and the illustrious home run record in MLB baseball.

Yep, the San Francisco Giants superstar is ALMOST there and get this, with the death threats the guy has been getting as he closes in on Hank Aaron, getting there becomes even more difficult as the days pass.

You read it, Barry Bonds, the same guy everybody loves to hate as of late, is getting all kinds of death threats from people who hate the fact that a junkie like him will have probably the most prestigious mark in MLB baseball history. And judging by the way these people are reacting, it looks like they would stop at nothing in stopping No.25 from getting 756.

I guess you can say that Bonds reaching 756 is definitely ‘’unhealthy'’ for the San Francisco Giants icon. And get this, the death threats started even before we kicked off the 2007 MLB baseball season.

It was back in spring training when Barry Bonds told KGO radio in San Francisco that there are quite an increasing number of death threats on him and his family. He also admitted that the death threats made him increasingly uneasy about his place in the public eye. (And you being a drug junkie didn’t do that?!?)

‘’I'm mostly gun-shy of what can happen,'’ San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds told KGO. ‘’Once this is all over and done, whether I get lucky enough to do it or not, I’ll be able to release just a little bit of the anxiety and fear of what can happen.'’

‘’You don’t want anything to happen to yourself. You don’t want anything to happen to your family.'’

You got to feel sorry for the guy, it’s not his fault his closing in on the prestigious home run record. What you…

Sorry, I guess I can’t do better than Syndicate’s ‘’Jazz find energy and solution to beat Spurs at EnergySolutions Arena'’ thing.

After Game 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, I guess it wouldn’t matter now. Sorry Synd’ but in case you missed it, the Utah Jazz finally lost at the EnergySolutions Arena in the 2007 NBA Playoffs.

Yep, the Utah Jazz bowed at the EnergySolutions Arena for the first time this postseason to the San Antonio Spurs, 91-79, to let San Antonio take the commanding 3-1 lead and be that much closer for a trip to the 2007 NBA Finals.

Manu Ginobili scored 22 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs past the Utah Jazz, 91-79, and overcome the superb scoring performance of Utah Jazz point guard Deron Williams, scoring a game-high 27 points in the loss.

Ginobili, like what he did to me in the 2005 finals, pissed off the entire Utah Jazz nation by virtually FLOPPING his way for the pivotal win in Game 4. He just kept on falling down to the ground without anyone touching him and to make matters worse, the dumb retards calling themselves referees were all falling for it.

Sheesh…

Utah Jazz players and coaches were complaining furiously to the referees. Hell, the usually mild-mannered…

Yep, it has been a damn long time since we last saw that.

Americans are no longer kings of tennis. Ever since Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi walked away from the game, stars from the international circuit began to come out with the likes of Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova and of course, Roger Federer dominating the sport as we know it today.

Of course, you can expect some of these guys at the 2007 French Open final in no time too.

Waaay back in 1978, Nick Bollettieri founded his tennis academy before coming up with the foundation of a clay dynasty eight years later. Since then, Americans like Agassi, Monica Seles, Jim Courier and Mary Pierce were feared on every single tennis court, especially in probably the greatest clay-court tourney in the world. Yep, I’m talking about the French Open at Roland Garros.

‘’It’s dirt-ball, baby, dirt-ball, baby,'’ Bollettieri explains with customary vigor from his Bradenton office. ‘’Give them rackets, they’ll beat the shit out of each other and…'’

Uh oh… I never thought this thing will ever happen in Formula One again… Especially THIS EARLY into the season.

Only five rounds into the new 2007 F1 season have passed and we have this kind of controversy already. Remember when Ferrari ‘’ordered'’ then No.2 Ferrari driver, Rubens Barrichello, to let Michael Schumacher cross the finish line first after Rubens was only a few meters away from crossing it first to ‘’protect'’ Schumi’s championship points lead?

Well, it happened again at Monaco. Only this time, it happened to virtually HAND someone the championship lead.

In case you’re not following Formula One racing these days, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren’s amazing rookie driver, is making the loudest of noise in F1 circuits. Coming to last weekend’s race, he was holding the drivers championship points lead. After the 2007 Monaco Grand Prix, he saw that same lead stolen from him by his own McLaren team.

Jeez…

It turns out that McLaren team boss Ron Dennis admitted to telling his drivers, both Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, to hold station in Monaco. Alonso and Hamilton were both 1 and 2 at the starting grid respectively and with…

After all, Cavalier Larry Hughes COULD miss the pivotal Game 4 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

Yep, after making that spectacular reverse layup that virtually broke my heart in Game 3, Larry Hughes could be out of the Cleveland Cavaliers lineup for Game 4 after suffering a torn plantar fascia in his left foot, merely moments following his best Michael Jordan impersonation of this seven-game NBA Eastern Conference Finals.

Larry Hughes admits that the likelihood of him playing in Game 4 is… ‘’SLIM.'’ Yay! Yeah, yeah, Larry Hughes is merely a cockroach compared to the very guy the Pistons have to stop, (CLUE: He wears No.23 for Cleveland…) but that’s still one less guy Detroit has to worry about.

‘’I'm not ruling it out. We’ll just have to see. If I can go out and help the team, I’ll help the team. If not, I’ll support them from the sidelines,'’ Larry Hughes said, referring to the possibility of playing for his Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4.

Hughes, who had been battling plantar fasciitis for more than a month, tore the heel muscle when he planted his foot to go up for a reverse layup in the first half of Cleveland’s 88-82 victory that cut Detroit’s lead to 2-1 in the…

For Dario Franchitti, of course it was.

As for the rest of us? Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t but one thing was certain, the weather sure had a huge part in it.

Cloudy skies held the 91st Indianapolis 500 into a three-hour rain delay and a yellow flag ending 34 laps shy of the scheduled distance. It sure was a race full of hopeful drivers alright but jeezus… All I saw was a bunch of cars lining up in single file for ALMOST the entire time.

It didn’t help having all these cars collide with one another after the very instant the safety car comes off too.

But hey, with all that stuff happening, were we screwed of a classic race in the Indianapolis 500? Was the 91st offering of this annual racing extravaganza a goddamn joke compared to all those classic wars that happened at the Indianapolis racetrack in the past? Hmm… Maybe not. Here’s why.

Despite all the rain delays, the 91st Indianapolis 500 did have 24 lead changes among nine drivers over 166 laps, making it…

As their men spend time playing baccarat at the casinos, the women spend theirs learning to love their body and build confidence — through strip dancing.

No, this is not Vegas. It’s in Taiwan.

And there’s even a school here that will teach you all that. College students, young professionals, models and even middle-aged housewives attend the “How to Look and Feel Sexy Workshop” being conducted by a Sexual Energy School in Teipei.

With the very conservative Chinese culture, very few would think a thing like this can happen in this lifetime.

But these are the Taiwanese, they are the more liberated faction among the one or so billion Chinese. The Taiwanese comprise a big chunk of the ‘new rich’ and they are the high-rollers that flock to Vegas and Macau casinos spending millions in baccarat and black jack game.

Good news to pervs who now have a new sex fantasy aside from those Japanese pubescent girls in their micro-mini school uniforms.

It’s no big surprise that the women will bring home not only tons of…