The Detroit Pistons fired coach Michael Curry after one disappointing season that saw the Pistons fall from six consecutive Eastern Conference Finals appearances to a 39-43 record and a treacherous four-game exit in the first round of the playoffs.

There is no debating this decision by the organization’s point man, Joe Dumars, especially after Curry’s questionable benching of team leader, Richard Hamilton, and the league-wide perception that he lost the respect of his entire team by season’s end.  But could Joe D look to his former teammate to fill the coaching void in the Big D?

Bill Laimbeer mysteriously stepped down from his WNBA head coaching position just three games into the season on June 15, 2009, citing the fact that he wanted to become an NBA head coach.

After watching the Pistons embarrassing season from the girl’s locker room, perhaps the three-time WNBA champion coach of the Detroit Shock knew the writing was on the wall and considered that maybe his former two-guard would be willing to pass him the ball with a shot at his dream job.

Nothing is more exhilarating than Women’s Beach Volleyball… nothing except maybe Women’s Beach Volleyball played in the RAIN!!! Tonight Misty May-Treanor & Kerri Walsh defeated the boy-like Chinese team Tian Ja/Wang Jie in two straight matches, and did I mention they did it in the RAIN!!!

The set marks May-Treanor/Walsh’s 67th consecutive international win and second olympic gold medal in eight years.  These girls got it goin’ on.  One thing’s for certain, if there is a God, He loves Himself some Women’s Beach Volleyball.

Check out the Ass-entials of Beach Volleyball

As many of you heard, last night there was a “fight” in a WNBA game that looked about as real as a WWE wrestling match – we’re not the only one to make the case that this was a publicity stunt used to draw attention into the “intensity” of the sport.

Since the WNBA is now implementing circus like publicity stunts to draw attention to the league, we’ve decided to give them some more suggestions to help them up their fan base.

Check out Alternative WNBA Publicity Stunts after the jump! (more…)

Sports are arguably too important in the average guy’s life. Guys are the ones arguing against that point. Sports cause guys to skip family events and work obligations for meaningless mid-season games and preseason action. Yet there is the negative half of sports; the kinds of things that make the average guy cringe at when he spends his average 60 hours a week “with” his favorite teams. Now there can be a number of things guys hate about sports, but I thought I’d come up with just a few:

Check out Top 10 Things Guys Hate About Sports after the flip! (more…)

With the 2008 Summer Olympics quickly approaching, make sure you check out one the most fantastic spectator sports around: women’s beach volleyball. Sure, the sport is just a lot of back and forth, but it’s awesome to watch. What’s better than pairs of sun-kissed cuties showing their skills in the sand–and showing off some awesome athlete ass? Nothing, that’s what.

Luckily for you, we’ve taken out all the obnoxious actual volleyball, and distilled it down to the best bits. The WNBA should take a look at what the AVP is doing, we’re guessing it would up their viewership a point or two…

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No, this is not a PR ploy by the WNBA to put women’s basketball back on the American tongue… but the sports world is a-buzz today with reports that American born, point guard Becky Hammon has opted to play for the Russian National Basketball team in the 2008 Olympic Games.

From Newsday:

That’s right. Becky Hammon, the WNBA point guard from America’s heartland, is going to march into National Stadium in Beijing under a Russian flag, wearing a Russian uniform. And perhaps the biggest irony of all is that Russia, a country that for years represented the antithesis of a free market, bought her services – fast tracking her to Russian citizenship after she signed a four-year contract for more than $2 million to play for CSKA, a Russian professional team, last winter.

If we could only talk the Ruskies into taking Kobe…

Check out Becky Hammon’s photo gallery after the jump. (more…)