NBA Finals Thoughts, Wiiitis, and 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

First, a quick-hitter:

- The Anaheim Ducks are your 2006-7 NHL Stanley Cup Champions!

Yeah, I don't care either.

(Raise your hand if you even knew that the NHL season started.)

- The NBA Finals is finally upon us! Duncan, Manu, and Parker versus Lebron! Will the Spurs cement their dynasty with their fourth championship in nine years? Will the Cavs be able to ride their superstar to a title? Will the refs, once again, prove to be the deciding figure in who wins the championship (I'm not suggesting that the NBA and their refs fix games, by the way *whistles*).

So, who do I think will win? Here's a better question: how can I pick against the Spurs? This matchup seems to be a bigger "mismatch" than the 2004 series between the Lakers and Detroit (of course, we know how THAT turned out!). Actually, I can see a couple of ways the Cavs can upset the Spurs:

1. If Bowen gets into foul trouble--definitely a possibility, considering that Bowen will have to guard Lebron--forcing the Spurs to use Manu to defend Lebron.
   
2. If Duncan gets into foul trouble--also possible, considering that Big Z, Gooden, and Varejao could be used to defend him--forcing the Spurs to use some combination of Oberto, Elson, Horry, et al., or go small.
3. If Big Z, Marshall, Gibson, Pavlovic, Gooden, et al., all play out of their minds.
4. If David Stern has something to say about the result (kidding!)

That being said, I don't see the Cavs being able to stop Tony Parker on the perimeter, nor will they be able to stop Duncan on the inside. Yeah, Lebron is a super-duper-star, and he could carry his team past the Spurs, but I just don't see it happening this year. It wouldn't surprise me at all, though, if he wins a title sometime in the next five years. Spurs in six games.

- A Boston doctor has coined a new injury he developed after playing too much Wii tennis. The name? You guessed it: Wiiitis. As the story goes, Dr. Julio Bonis woke up one morning with a sore shoulder, and determined that the injury was due to too much Wii tennis. "The variant in this patient can be labeled more specifically as 'Wiiitis,'" declared the doctor.

Will this open the door to a huge Wiiitis-related class action lawsuit against Nintendo? Maybe this will lead to a huge increase in the sales of pain medication. Or maybe, this will be the start of a worldwide Wiiitis epidemic, causing millions of hours of missed work/school time and billions of dollars of health care to be administered!

Or maybe the doctor should have realized that several consecutive hours of just about any activity probably isn't a good idea...

- Finally (from Digg), I leave you with this list of the 100 words that every high school graduate should know. I am proud to admit that I do not know, or have forgotten, the definitions for most of the words on that list :P. In today's world, lacking in self-accountability, I would like to blame my high school for my not knowing most of these words.

Or maybe I should go read the dictionary...