No News is Good News

Just briefly here, kudos to Kevin by beating RealGM on the Blazers-come-to-practice-early story. Theirs can be seen here. No offense, RealGM, but I think you've got some serious competition.

Speaking of breaking news, I don't know if you'll be seeing me beat any established basketball websites with news. I always seem to be a bit behind, especially nowadays. It's mainly because of my busy schedule, but I seem to completely miss relevant stories every now and again on news outlets. Just the other day, I was working all day and didn't get a chance to check cnn.com until later that evening. The headlining story was about some fire that broke out in the midwest or something, and then I start to read the side stories, and one of them mentioned that Alberto Gonzalez stepped down as Attorney General.

SIDE NOTE: I try to stay away from politics when I'm writing about sports, but sometimes I just can't help it. In this case, when I heard about this, I would have ripped off my shirt and made a huge Tiger Woods Fist Pump if I weren't surrounded by professional-types that expect a modicum of self-restraint on the job.

So anyways, all that I could find was the reaction to the Gonzalez story. The Gonzalez story itself was long gone from the main page, and it had only been like seven hours since the story first broke. But it was odd because nobody had told me about it during the course of the day. I'm sure many people had heard about it; it wasn't exactly unexpected, but it was still big news. They just didn't think of it as important enough to gossip about at work. Surely not as important as the Anna Nicole Smith death, which I knew of exactly two seconds after it happened, by way of a devout Muslim, of all people. (sigh)

Maybe we'll be able to beat RealGM, but CNN might be tough at this point. At least until we get a secretary who will bring us coffee and sort our mail.

TJH