The Linkz of the Week are your weekly (duh) guided tour through this wonderful depraved world of sports that we live in. Have a comment or a link? send it to me at tdonegan@gwmail.gwu.edu and I'll probably post it. I'm cool like that.

ON WITH THE SHOW...

1. Darius Miles' Career: Bullet Point Style

Want a breakdown of the Celtics' grasping-at-straws trade for Darius Miles? MVN blog has it all broken down from the day he was drafted through the Celtics signing. From what I'm reading (and what I remember) he's an alright kid with some of the typical NBA attitude problems who was put in a horrible situation.

Cavs and Clips fans that I know say he's merely a talent who never had the right coaching while you'll hear Trailblazer fans dump on him all the time. The Blazers, who have come back to life by signing young, well-behaved talent and creating a ton of cap space, don't want him to succeed because it will cost them 9 million in cap space. It's a completely no-risk situation for the Celtics to see if they can get some production out of the SF position. James Posey he's not. But productive? perhaps.

2. Blogger Listens to an Entire Day of WEEI; Miraculously Survives

Pink Hat Hell has a post from blogger Tiki who decided to take an entire day to listen to WEEI and live blog his impressions. Like most of you (and by that I mean, me) he doesn't listen as regularly as he once did, can't stand Dennis & Callahan or most of the on-air personalities, and pretty much thoroughly trashes the station.

I don't agree with most of the points (especially about the new media part at the end--if film, newspapers, commercial radio, music and other media industries are all going to fail, where the hell are people going to get their media? Digital distribution is just a faster, cheaper way of doing the same old things that cuts out costs.) but it's an entertaining (if lengthy) read.

3. Cuban Taekwondo Fighter Kicks Ref in the Face

Yes, it happened last Friday but it didn't make it into last week's Linkz and I wanted to post it. Mostly, I wanted to post it so I could post another similar incident.

These aren't funny and you're a terrible person for laughing at them. Nobody died, anyway.

4. Teens Charged With Assaulting Boys in Back of Bus Get it Easy

Apparently, jamming things up a kid's ass because he's an underclassman is no longer a felony in Niagara County, New York. The three teens charged with bringing some junior varsity players to the back of a bus after a game and beating them, assaulting them, holding them down and jamming things up their ass (with their pants on, but still) are having their charges reduced to misdemeanor. Oh, well, how nice for them!

From one of the defense attorneys: "We do not believe a crime occurred," Shelby said. "There was some conduct that was not appropriate, but boys will be boys."

There are no words.

5. Chad Johnson Legally Changes Name to Ocho Cinco

Now, I never took Spanish, but is Ocho Cinco even how you say "Eighty-Five" in Spanish? I feel like that's not quite right. I mean, you can always change it back, but geez. For a guy who has had doctors basically tell him that his shoulder could disintegrate at any moment this season, he's certainly not acting like it. Dude's a walking circus.

6. An Inside Look at the Rock, Paper, Scissors World Championship

Dan Steinberg of the Washington Sports Bog has a post from Beijing about the Rock, Paper, Scissors international competition held in Beijing during the Olympics. Leave it to Dan to find something like that. It's a solid read, check it out. Always go with Rock. Nothing beats Rock.

7. Pacman Jones Reinstated to NFL; Learns News In Dallas Hooters

You honestly can't write this stuff. Pacman really just doesn't get it, sometimes. Now, Hooters is no strip club, to be sure. It's a fine restaurant that is good at what it does. You will actually get better food at a strip club than at Hooters, not kidding here, but the atmosphere is what you pay for. Pacman was probably showered with praise by a lot of girls who look like 10s if you've had 3 or 4 pitchers or if they're standing more than 20 feet away are working their way through law school. (I kid because I love, girls)

8. Tale of the Tape: Fantasy Football vs Real Football

It's an ok little article. These sort of articles are the kind of thing the interns would all sit around and think up together rather than something that a columnist would actually spend time on but I have to link to it for one reason: the excellent picture of ESPN's Fantasy Football Guru Matt Berry at the end. Classic Heisman Pose if they bronzed Ed Smith slipping on a bar of soap in the bathroom. Nice work, Matt.

9. Classic Link of the Week: Jim Rome Nearly Gets His Head Broken

Now, this is hardly the high-minded stuff that I like to post in the Classic Link of the Week, but I watched his show today and he (once again) made me want to put my foot through my television so I felt compelled to post it. Apparently Jim Everett felt the same way:

I can't believe how similar Jim Rome's schtick is after all these years. This is from almost 15 years ago. The only thing that's changed is the "edgy" ESPN2 graphics have been updated.

10. Link of the Week: Football is Back.

The "expert" picks are in for this year's NFL season, where people who watch little more football than a dedicated fan, but can tell you exactly how big Santonio Holmes' penis is, tell you how the season is going to pan out:

ESPN

Sports Illustrated

Fox Sports: AFC East

Sweet Jesus, thank the Lord. Football is back again. Now, I'm a big basketball, baseball, soccer.....well let's just say I'm a big sports fan. So I always have something to watch. But for me, nothing competes with sitting down on a Sunday, all my work done, and watching football for the entire day. Just knowing that it's one weekend away puts a smile on my face. With that, I leave you, another week in the bag.

Next week: Linkz of the Week: Live from DC.