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• I'm so glad the NBA Playoffs took a break last night.  I needed a breather, so I can refocus on two non-competitive series.
• Kobe Bryant has played 78 minutes in the first two games, while Steve Nash has played only 64.  Nash is pretty good.  Alvin Gentry should consider giving him some run.  If you like Goran Dragic so much, play them together.  The Suns defense cannot get any worse.
• As the Magic stare down a sweep, we should probably acknowledge LeBron's efforts to push the Celtics to a Game 6. 
• Doug Collins makes sense in Philadelphia.  He was a hard-nosed player for the 76ers, so he'll understand the city's culture.  The NBA loves retreads though.  Once you are in the club, it's impossible to get out.  Collins is the Buck Showalter of the association.  He laid the groundwork for championship runs in Chicago and Detroit, but he's never tasted much success himself.  He did win gold in the 1972 Munich Olympics.  Oh wait, never mind...
• At the quarter mark of the season, the Tampa Bay Rays have a 4.5 game lead on baseball, 5 on the Yankees and 8.5 on the Red Sox.  However, watching them up close for two days, they pitch and field at a championship level, but they'll need more from their lineup.  Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford are their only elite hitters.  Carlos Pena and B.J. Upton are all or nothing guys that will struggle in the postseason.  And, the bottom of the lineup is filled with outs like Dioner Navarro, Gabe Kapler and Reid Brignac.  They need Ben Zobrist to wake from his slumber and either Pena or Upton to return to their powerful form from two years back.
• I was wrong about the Red Sox.  They can hit a little.  They rank third in the American League in runs scored.  Once Jacoby Ellsbury comes back, they'll have a better lineup than the Rays.  Josh Beckett has just killed them.  If he comes off the DL with his old stuff, which I doubt, the Yankees better watch their back.
• On SI.com this morning, Tom Verducci is trying to sell the rise of the National League.  Sorry, I'm not buying.  The Reds were in first place yesterday when they gagged a 6-run 9th inning lead to the lowly Braves.  The Padres are in first place without one starting pitcher that would be in competition for a rotation spot with the Yankees, Red Sox or Rays.  The Phillies are elite, the Cardinals and Rockies are dangerous and everyone else is playing out the schedule. 
• Do you know how I really know the NL sucks?  Chan Ho Park.  As a reliever with the Phillies last year, he gave up ZERO homeruns in 38 games.  In just five games in the AL East this season, he's already given up five.  He has no game plan.  He lobs the ball over the middle of the plate and hopes that it is hit at someone.  If you're pitching for the Phillies, the only team who can hit homeruns in the NL, that's a brilliant idea.  Here ya go Mets!  Hit it as far as you can Nationals!  As for facing the Rays, Park went wall, wall, homer against the first three batters faced last night.  Paul Quantrill tried the same thing a few years back.  In his two years with the Dodgers, he had ERAs of 2.70 and 1.75.  And then he came to New York, hello 4.72 followed by a 6.75 and goodnight. 
• Michael Kay has said "See ya!" about 8,673,452 times in his career.  Would it kill him to mix in "Somebody get me an Italian boat because that ball is GONNNNNNN-DOLA!!!"?  Maybe if Francisco Cervelli hits a homerun?
• Brandon Knight is smarter than the system.  The high school senior is one of the top college basketball players in the country.  He is headed to Kentucky next year, but he is not signing a Letter of Intent, which is a binding contract.  Instead, he signed a financial aid pact, so he can leave if John Calipari jets to the NBA.  (Side note: How could he not trust Calipari's word???)  If you're a player who is desperate for a scholarship, this route does not work, but they're not going to give away Knight's scholly.  Well played...
• By getting all the best recruits every year, Calipari is indirectly balancing out the college hoops landscape.  Kentucky will be loaded with talented freshmen next season, but they have nothing else.  They'll be good, but like this year, they'll fall short at the end.  If these kids were dispersed among UNC, Kansas and Michigan State, the rest of the country would have no chance.
• When someone like Floyd Landis or Mark McGwire confesses to something that the entire country already knew about it, we should have a name for it.  I'm thinking we call it a Lance Bass or maybe a Clay Aiken.
• Have you heard the "Hoarse Whisperer"?  Classic clip.
• The Champions League Final will be aired live in HD on network television for the first time here in the States.  Curt Menefee (interesting choice) will have the Saturday call for Fox alongside Eric Wynalda.  Inter Milan and Bayern Munich are probably not the best two clubs in the world, but they were the best at finding ways to win this year.  Inter is tactically superior led by manager Jose Mourinho.  Munich could have easily gone out in the 2nd round, but they have produced a seemingly endless supply of magic led by Dutch winger Arjen Robben.  If you want to focus on one player, watch Inter midfield maestro Wesley Sneijder, who will team with Robben for the Netherlands in South Africa.  I'll take Inter 2-0.
• I don't know what's going to happen on Lost Sunday, but I do have a prediction for the final scene.  Jack and Sawyer or Locke will be sitting on the beach staring out into the ocean as the ghosts of the entire cast walk up behind them.  Just as Jacob needed to be replaced, I think the "Man in Black" will need to be replaced as well assuming they send him back to his hole.  The scales have to stay balanced, so either Kate dies, which turns Sawyer evil or Locke does not die, but he's stuck on the island.  Either way, the bad guy turns to Jack and says, "Do you know how badly I want you dead?"  Jack says, "Yes."  Bad guy, "I will find a way to kill you."  Jack says, "I know."  The cast of ghosts comes out of the forest...and for one last time, LOST hits the black screen.  Something like that anyway.  

I found this quote from Season 1: "There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark."  Locke explaining backgammon to Walt.