- No one was happy with what they saw from the NBA’s new
super team on Thursday night, but perhaps no one was fierier than the man
tasked with overseeing the overhauled Cleveland Cavaliers. David Blatt had not
yet won his first NBA game, but he had no problem ripping his team a new one after
they lost 90-85 to the woeful New York Knicks in the wildly overhyped and
over-celebrated return of LeBron James to Cleveland. The supposedly all-time
great offense in the making the Cavs would have with James, Kevin Love and
Kyrie Irving playing together was moribund most of the night and rather than
have a normal shootaround before the
tail end of their back-to-back against the Chicago Bulls on Friday, Blatt
elected for a nice ass chewing for his star-studded roster. "You all are
such nice people, I'm so happy you weren't in the morning meeting today because
your opinion of me might be vastly different right now," Blatt said.
"But we cleaned some things up, and the guys responded beautifully and we
played a great game." Coaches often chew out players in team meetings when
sh*t goes sour, but they typically don’t bring it up with the media or admit
that they reamed their team. Considering that Blatt was still hours from his
first NBA win and that he called out James in the meeting, his actions took
serious kahones. "He just got on us," James said when asked about
Blatt's message. "He got on us from the time we started our meeting to the
time we left. And it's great. For a team like us, we need that.” It’s a move
that can’t be constant or even repeated on a consistent basis because such
tactics wesr on players, but for a coach early in his tenure it was a bold
stroke aimed at setting a tone for what Blatt wants his team to be……….
- Everyone has a slightly different use for 911. For
example, some people call it when a fire or other disaster strikes their home
and they need immediate assistance from first responders. Others dial the
number when they or someone with them is the victim of a violent crime and the
police are required on location. Then there is Spring Hill, Fla. resident Rodni
Brown, who not only doesn’t know how to properly spell one of the more common
names in American English, but was also in a tough spot that no average man was
qualified to handle. Brown has ventured down to a local fine dining
establishment known as McDonald’s and after getting his fill of $1
cheeseburgers and non-chicken chicken nuggets, he found himself at a
crossroads. He needed to get home and because he did not have a vehicle to
drive home or money for bus fare, he had to improvise. At that point, he could
have dialed a friend and asked that friend to come pick him up. He could have
asked a stranger for money to ride the bus. Brown rejected those options and
chose his third one, which involved dialing 911 and concocting a story about an
emergency at his home that he had to get to immediately. Deputies said
Rodni Brown told dispatchers while at the restaurant on Spring Hill Drive that
his home located at 10443 Abbeville Street was on fire, but that wasn’t
entirely true, mostly because it wasn’t true at all. When firefighters showed
up at the home, there was no fire and after Brown got a ride home from police,
he was placed under arrest and transported to the Hernando County Jail. How
this was going to end any way other than badly for Brown is something only he
can explain, but this moron may not have the brain power to do so………
- The crazy train is about to become a solo ride. Black Sabbath
will release its final album in 2015, leaving its aging members to figure out
their respective next moves. Each has plenty of options, but the one who will
draw the most attention is the least coherent among them, frontman Ozzy
Osbourne. As Sabbath readies the follow-up to its 2013 album “13,” Osbourne is
making plans to venture out on his own once again. The drug-addled, mumbling
rocker has confirmed that he will continue to release music once Black Sabbath
split and said he has already begun work on his next solo album. “[This will
be] our last hurrah...Then it's no more Sabbath at all. We're disbanding the
name and everything. They don't want to tour anymore. I get it. But I love it.
I'm gonna continue my solo thing," Osbourne said. Not only does Osbourne
have new material in the pipeline, but he says it will sound distinctly
different from his work with Sabbath and if one can believe a guy who has shot,
snorted or smoked every illegal substance he could access for four-plus
decades, it will actually be much sunnier. “Black Sabbath is slow and demonic;
Tony Iommi is untouchable for that kind of stuff. My stuff is more melodic,
more structured of a song,” Osbourne said. “It's more kind of rock than doom-y
music. It's happier, kind of." When their final album drops, Black Sabbath
will have released 14 studio albums over a 46-year run, most with their current
lineup of Osbourne, Iommi and third original member Geezer Butler on bass………
- Does anyone have a match, Bangladesh? If so, keep it handy
because you’re going to need it. While most people look forward to the weekend
because it’s a respite from the grind of the work week, those people typically
do so with the expectation that they won't spend their weekend in the dark. That
hasn’t been the case for residents of one of Asia’s smallest nations, where the
state power company says the country has been hit with an
electricity blackout after a transmission line bringing power from neighboring
India failed. Bangladesh began importing electricity from India last October
2013 through a 400-kilovolt transmission line that runs from Baharampur in the
Indian state of West Bengal to the southwestern Bangladesh town of Bheramara,
but Bangladeshi officials have to be having serious second thoughts about the
arrangement at this point. One year of semi-reliable power isn't exactly what
any nation sigs up for, given the amount of money changing hands her. Power
Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. Managing Director Masum-Al-Beruni, who should
probably work on shortening his company’s name once this crisis is over, said the
blackout hit around noon Saturday and covered all parts of the country
connected to the national grid. Restoring power to an entire country
takes time, so maybe pour one out for Bangladesh over its wasted weekend and
hope the next one is better for all involved in this forgettable frame……..
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