Public Service Announcement:   Ok, here we go!  I'm sad to say this will my last post on Fox Sports.  I just have too much on my plate right now to continue here.  I want to take this time to say, I've loved every minute and I will miss you all.  Thanks for the memories!

Public Spectacle: 

Peace out homies.  Six two and even!

No time for losers 'cause we are the champions, of the world!  -Queen

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Oh baby don't it feel like heaven right now?  Don't it feel like something from a dream?  Ya, I've been waiting for this.  Anticipating for this.  Waiting for this ever since I heard the Big Ticket scream, "Anything's Pooooosssssssible!" 

Well, the waiting's over.  The new NBA season is upon us.  Fantastic!  The Celtics begin their quest for the repeat.  The Celtics set out to do what no Boston Celtics team has done without Bill Russell.  Something Larry Bird has never done.  Something Dave Cowens has never done.  Back to back baby!  Back to back.

You can tell me that the loss of James Posey means the loss of another title.  And as much as I love the man, I will respond, "Are you out of your cotton pickin' minds?"   Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen are still here.  Rajon Rondo gets better every single day.  Tom Thibodeau is still orchestrating the best defense this NBA has ever seen.  Here's what Bill Russell had to say on the matter, "I have the first championship team photo from 1957 and the last one from '69.  I am the only guy in both pictures."  Put that in your cigar and smoke it.

It all starts tonight.  The Celtics get their rings tonight.  The Celtics raise their banner tonight.  When they run out of that tunnel onto the Garden floor, they will be announced to the crowd as the World Champeen Boston Celtics.  When Kendrick Perkins tips off tonight against Zydrunas Ilgauskas, all of that doesn't matter.  All that matters is another championship.  Boston Celtics basketball.  Come and get some!

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Big time.  I'm on my way, I'm making it.  Big time, big time.  I've got to make it show yeah.  -Peter Gabriel

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  I don't really need to write anything here.  By this time, you've seen Ryan Howard reestablish dominance with two jacks on Sports Center.  You've read countless blogs recounting Joe Blanton's home run that made him the first player in major-league history whose first extra-base hit, whether in a regular-season or a postseason game, was a World Series home run.  You witnessed live uber-rookie Evan Longoria's futility as he joined Flea Clifton of the 1935 Tigers as just the second rookie to go hitless in his first sixteen at-bats of a World Series.  What's left to say?

The Fightin' Phils have a 3-1 lead in a World Series they can put away tonight at the ballfield where they've been unbeaten this entire postseason.  The can finally rain out this Ray Pride Parade.  Cole Hamels, who has won all four and been untouchable in his postseason starts, will toe the rubber again tonight at Citizens Bank Park.  Cole Hamels gets the title shot outdoors at the ballpark and what do the Rays get?  A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville!  It was a nice run, but like anything else, all good things must come to an end.  This one ends tonight.

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

Rear up you Colts and let's fight.  Crash through and show them your might!  - Jo Lombardi & Benjamin Klasmer

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Whats crack-a-lacking sports fans?  It's gut check time.  Make or break or time.  Do or die time.  Win or go home!  We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me.  And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light.  We can climb outta hell...one inch at a time.  Hoorah!

Like it or not, that's what Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts have to do.  They have to climb outta hell...one inch at a time.  It all starts tonight.  It all starts in the Music City.  It all starts against the Tennessee Titans.  The undefeated Tennessee Titans.  Is it Monday yet?

You may say it's early.  You may say there's plenty of football left to be played.  You may say I'm a dreamer.  But I'm not the only one.  Know this sports fans.  Know that when the Colts lost last week, they fell to three games back in the division.  Fell to three games back in the division for the first time in the seven years there's been a division.  Losing again, tonight, to this Titans team, could very well mean the end of the line.  No team in the history of the NFL has ever come back to win a division title after being down four games at any point during the season.  No team.  Not ever.

It will not be easy.  Not a task for the faint of heart.  Like my main man Ronald Reagan always says, "The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave."  It will take bravery to face this Titans defense.  You've heard of the Steel Curtain?  This is the Titanium Curtain.  It's the new style.  Four and three and two and one, when I'm on the mic, the suckers run.   Suckers have been running all season.  Running from Albert Haynesworth.  Running from Keith Bulluck.  Running from Courtland Finnegan.  Running, but not getting very far.  The Titanium Curtain has not allowed more than seventeen points in any game this season.  Big deal you say?  Who cares you say?  I say nobody has started a season at 6-0 while holding their opponant to seventeen points or fewer since 1981.  Since the Philadelphia Eagles.  Since Charlie Johnson.  Since Jerry Robinson.  Since Roynell Young.  Since guys like that there.  I say the Colts have their work cut out for them.

Peyton Manning is playing behind a makeshift line on a makeshift knee and he is struggling like he has never struggled before.  He just hasn't had the time or the mobility to connect on those deeper routes that have been so successful in the past.  For the Colts to have any shot, any shot at all, the offensive line must protect the six foot five, 230-pound quarterback with the laser rocket arm.  Jaws:  "If a defense gives Manning time to throw, he's going to win.  It doesn't matter how good the defense is."  Manning has been an MVP, a Pro Bowl MVP and a Super Bowl MVP.  Tonight, he has to play like one again.  His season depends on it.

Public Acknowledgements:  Any Given Sunday, John Lennon, Beastie Boys and USA Today

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six Two and Even!

Oh baby, give me one more chance.  To show you that I love you.  Won't you please let me back in your heart.  -Jackson 5

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Oh, how the mighty have fallen.  I remember when this cat was the second coming.   I remember when this cat was the second coming of a Legend, right down to the cheesy moustache.  I remember when this cat was a chief, was a king, but above everything, he was the most tip top, Top Cat!   

It all started one night in Maui against Michigan State and continued on until Dr. Dirt's Gonzaga team suffered a stunning, last second defeat to UCLA and he began weeping like a school girl.  That frown got turned upside-down.  Got turned upside-down when the Bobcats selected him with the third overall pick in the 2006 NBA Draft.  Third, behind Andrea Bargnani and LaMarcus Aldridge.  Third, ahead of Brandon Roy.  Ahead of Rudy Gay.  Ahead of Randy Foye.  Ahead of Rajon Rondo.   The first player picked by "Manager of Basketball Operations" Michael Jordan in his tenure with the Bobcats.  It all went down hill from there.

In his first year, he was selected to the NBA Rookie All-Star team.  In his first year, he was selected to NBA All-Rookie Second Team.  In his first year, he was none-the-less considered inconsistent and a disappointment.  That's what happens when you're the third overall pick.  That's what happens when you're hailed as the next Larry Bird.  That's what happens when the fate of a franchise is resting on your young shoulders.

At the time, Morrison was a no brainer pick for His Airness.  Besides his God-given talent, Morrison showed true grit.  Fill your hands you sonofabitch!  His competitiveness was unrivaled.  Old school right down to his socks.  Unfortunately, he never lived up to that hype in Charlotte.  It seemed he never saw a shot he didn't like.  It seemed he never played a lick of defense.  And last year, he never even played a game.

Now that he's back, what does the future hold for young Adam?  Will he go the way of his first benefactor and fellow third pick Michael Jordan?  Or will he end up like another number three, Dennis Hopson, and finish out his career with Maccabi Qiryat Motzkin of the Israeli Basketball League?  Chances are, somewhere in between.  Word has it that the 'Cats only picked up Adam's option to facilitate a trade.  Word has it Larry Brown is none to enamored with Adam's game.  But, save the ponytail, I've liked what I've seen so far.  I like that he's making quick cuts to the rim.  I like that he's knocking down the J.  I like that he's picking up the pieces less than one year removed from the injury.  Of all Charlotte players with meaningful minutes in the preseason, Morrison led the 'Cats in FG%.  55% from beyond the arc.  Not too shabby.  I guess I'm just not ready to give up on this guy.  Not yet.  Not me.   Not after what I saw him do in Maui and beyond three years ago.  It's gonna take a lot more than more than one stinking knee injury to change my mind. 

Public Spectacle:

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!