ThreeStrikesandOut

Us white people will sue over anything.

Larry Bird is suing the Alaskan couple that bought his childhood home; for using Bird’s name in advertising the bed-and-breakfast that they run from the home. According to Bird’s lawyers:

“The commercialization of Larry Bird’s name in association with this former property is wholly and completely unauthorized and is blatantly being done for the sole purpose of profiting illegally from Larry Bird’s name,” the lawsuit states.

Christopher Cooke, one of the owners, and an Alaskan attorney said that they had a spoken agreement to use the information about the house.

Cooke said he was aware of the trademark but stressed he was given permission to use it.

“They told me we could make truthful statements about Larry’s past,” Cooke said. “Larry even called me and wish us well and thought we would do well.”

He also says that:

Well dammit dude, I guess that he changed his mind.

I mean, if it used to be Larry Bird’s house, I wouldn’t think that there would be any problem with telling people that it used to be Larry Bird’s house, and Bird should have known that anyone who was buying the place to start a business would use the place’s history to drum up business. But then again, Bird’s business sense has helped run the Pacers into the ground, so I guess that I shouldn’t be shocked that he didn’t see this situation coming.

That being said, this poor couple has not a chance in hell of winning this lawsuit. They are in Indiana; and they are being sued by Larry Bird, the biggest star to ever come out of the state of Indiana; check that; he’s the biggest basketball star to ever come out of Indiana. And if there is anything that will cause Indianians to riot it’s basketball. Say something negative about Hoosiers in Bloomington, Indiana and see if your ass doesn’t disappear amidst the corn.

I’m pretty sure that Bird could kill about 12 people and the case would get thrown out; so if he’s suing you, you’re pretty much screwed. Hell, they’ll be lucky if they aren’t tried in criminal court and electrocuted.

Alaskan Daily News

Jazz 104, Lakers 99:

Utah, we have a Carlos Boozer sighting. Boozer broke out of his slump with 27 points and a just plain silly, number of rebounds (20), to lead the Jazz to the five-point win over the Lakers. Kobe Bryant had the play-of-the-night though, with this off-the-backboard pass to himself for the dunk:

Bryant finished the night with 34 points, seven assists and six rebounds, but he just didn’t have the help from the rest of his team to make up the difference.

Celtics beat Cavaliers: 89-73

Network TV beat out the Celtics over the Cavs, in terms of gaining my interest.  Halfway through the second quarter, I deemed this game unwatchable, and found other things to occupy my time.  Unless LeBron James decides to take off the training wheels, this is going to be a short series.  If I’m wrong about defensive basketball being terrible; I don’t want to be right.

Spurs 110; New Orleans 99

Die, die, why won’t you die!  I’ll believe the Spurs are done when someone pries the trophy from Timmy Duncan’s cold, dead hands.  Chris Paul went ballistic on the Spurs, scoring 35, but the most underrated man in basketball, Manu Ginobli scored 31 points as did the little French guy, Tony Parker, and the Spurs brought the series closer by one game.

Wow, other than Game One of the Spurs/Suns; the playoffs have really been about as under-whelming as seeing Showgirls after years of Saved by the Bell reruns.  Just not what I expected at all.

Charles forgets to think before he reads:

Who that runs a TelePrompter hasn’t wanted to do that at one point?  Good thing for Charles that it was his friend who did it to him, and not some long-suffering Sixers fan, who never forgave him for leaving Philly.  There would have been at least one “I have herpes, syphilis, and (insert disease here)” involved if it had been.

From the good folks at Odenized.

Mamba over Utah: 120-110

Kobe took possession of the MVP on Wednesday night, and he may not give it back until they pull it from his cold, dead fingers.  In actuality he probably will never win another one, for the same reason that it took this long for him to win this one; that reason being that Kobe could win it every year.  What’s the difference between Kobe and everyone else?  Experts give reasons why Chris Paul and Kevin Garnett should win the MVP, they have to give reasons why Kobe shouldn’t win the MVP.  34 points, 8 rebounds for Kobe in the win over the Jazz, giving the Lakers a 2-0 lead going back to Utah.

Superman over Pistons: 111-86

As impressive as the Pistons looked in the first two games, let’s be blunt; they got their butts handed to them by the Magic.  But, worse than the game three loss, could be the possible loss of “Mr. Big Shot” Chauncey Billups with a leg injury.  Billups is expected to play, but how good a shape that he will be in, remains to be seen.  Rashard Lewis must have borrowed Dwight Howard’s cape, as Mr. Lewis scored 33 points and gave Orlando some much-needed confidence leading into Game Four.