IMBC News, A Bit More Kobe, The Yanks Might Be Cursed, Steve Kerr = Suns GM

(Day 3 of the NorCal trip will have to wait until tomorrow...)

So what's the big news story of the day? I've been invited back to the IMBC! What does this mean?

1. I can, at least for now, no longer root for Amy to win. I imagine that I will be rooting for her to win again soon enough :P.
2. If I somehow win this thing, it'll be a tainted victory. I'll have to ask Hank to put an asterisk next to my name in the IMBC record books.
3. I better make a note (mental or otherwise) to check the timestamp on all future entries.

- Here's the latest in the Kobe Bryant saga: Kobe and owner Dr. Jerry Buss had spoken to each other, and Dr. Buss promised Kobe that he would "'pursue every avenue possible' to improve the team." Quoted from the article:

"I talked with Kobe this morning and assured him that I share his frustration and, more importantly, I assured him that we will continue to pursue every avenue possible to improve our team with him as the cornerstone," Buss said in a statement. "I told him that we will keep him apprised of our progress and we agreed that we will talk again in the very near future."

Wait a second...didn't Kobe just whine about being misled and back stabbed by the team, angering him to the point where he needed a change of scenery? Didn't he just say that there was nothing the team could do to make him change his mind about wanting a trade? Also, why would be want to stay with a team that apparently pissed on the previous three seasons of his career? Here's a better question: how did I not see this coming? How was I not able to figure out that everything would be OK once Kobe and Buss started talking to each other?

It appears that Kobe will be staying in LA. Let's see if he actually gets the help he needs, starting with a point guard not named Smush Parker.

- The Yankees' Jason Giambi will miss, at the very least, the next three weeks of the season with a foot injury. He could, potentially, miss the entire season. At least the injury occurred on the playing field, although I'm guessing the team would have been happier if the injury didn't occur while he was celebrating a home run trot. The foot was already injured, and it appears that the trot aggravated the injury. In a season where the Yankees are currently a billion games out of first place (to the hated Red Sox, no less), and where a 44-year-old six-inning pitcher is labeled your savior, what else could possibly go wrong (other than a pair of scandals involving a certain player, on successive days, one of which I must talk about tomorrow)?

(By the way, as a Yankee hater, I am seriously enjoying this.)

Line of the night: hearing an ESPN personality (it might have been on SportsCenter, I forget) saying that "at least" the injury occurred to a position player, and not a pitcher.

- The other big news story of last night? Steve Kerr, TNT and Yahoo! Sports personality, and minority owner of the Phoenix Suns, will be named the president and general manager of the team, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. This is horrible news, as far as I'm concerned. Why? It's because I always enjoyed reading Kerr's articles on Yahoo! Sports, as well as listening to him and Marv Albert doing play-by-play on TNT. Kerr might be my favorite NBA color analyst out there today; he's very insightful, articulate, and has a sense of humor, without trying to be over the top (you hear me, Stu Lantz?).

Until next time!