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SHOTY Elite Eight: Chris Berman Vs. Baby Mangino

SHOTY Elite Eight: Chris Berman Vs. Baby Mangino.

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Maybe they missed the news?

Nike released a set of Young Guns PE (player exclusive) sneakers today for Brandon Roy, Deron WIlliams, and Kevin Durant.

The Durant pair is a little…interesting.  See for yourself:

Kind of odd to release PE in a colorway that the player never wore.  Maybe the whole OKC mess released their logo/colors too late to change these.

Anyway, these sure are exclusive.  So exclusive that Durant will never wear them.

(H/T FirstCuts)

We’re back?

Gonna give this another shot.  Maybe.

Conan and Cramer

Here’s a great video from last night:

Testing

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Apple Q3 results

hooray, apple beat estimates.  boo, apple set a small estimate (again) for next quarter.

perhaps this is the quarter where everyone figures out apple sets its guidence artificially low?  my portfolio hopes so.

UPDATE: doesn’t look like Wall St. has learned.  AAPL down over 7 points in after-market trading

ELTON BRAND TO THE SIXERS!!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3479059

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080708_Sixers__Brand_have_verbal_agreement.html

More tomorrow when it’s official.

WHERE THE HELL IS KIRBY BUCKET?

One of the reasons I love Philadelphia: the 4th of July parade.

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