Blog Posts For: July 2010

The Washington Redskins are the 2010 Redeem Team. Donovan McNabb needs to prove he is a Super Bowl-caliber winning quarterback, Coach Mike Shanahan has to prove he was not just riding John Elway and Terrell Davis’s coattails for two years, and a host of veterans want to prove they have not yet passed their prime.

Al Pacino is coming to Broadway this fall to reprise the role of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice at the Broadhurst Theatre. Pacino seems to have fallen in love with this role, as it will be his second reprisal of the Jewish money-lender who demands a pound of flesh and ultimately death from beloved Antonio.

So You Think You Can Dance has more to celebrate than a week without a trip to the infirmary. The television show deemed the “biggest hit of the summer” by Fox’s voiceover guy also will be extending its season into late summer and early fall with a national tour.

Team USA has puts its collection of talent together for 2010 FIBA Championship in Turkey. This initial collection of 22 potential national representatives is far from as impressive as the All-NBA team that rolled out for the 2008 Olympic Games in China. Still, there is no real sense of worry that our national team will fail to bring home the first outright FIBA Championship since 1994.

I think Bieber has officially become the new “Justin”. Just go to Google and news search for Justin Bieber.

The Miami Heat are a few roster spots short of going to war in the NBA Eastern Conference. There is no question LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh will be starting, but there will be two more spots left on the floor though. While Zydrunas Ilgauskas will likely start at center, the question is who will take the fifth?

The NBA has an obsession with the number three. The ultimate expression of dominance in this new era of basketball is the three-peat. Every team must have a three point specialist to space the floor in this age of unimaginably tall basketball players at every position. And now the rule of three is being applied to the championship equation.