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Kings kicked out of NBL (from ABC News)

You know your league is in the s*** when a grand finalist is booted out of the competition for failing to pay players. It’s a sad state of affairs when even the naming rights sponsor and main broadcaster are looking likely to pull out.

I think it’s time for a major revamp of the NBL. As much as shutting down the league is a potential option,
given there are clubs going well off the court, it’d hurt them a lot. The timing could be improved a little, as to minimise the clashes between the end of the footy seasons and the start of the A-League. Also, a better broadcast deal and improved promotion would help as well.

Finally, pull the plug on Singapore and concentrate on Australia and New Zealand. Have it so the only areas that can get a license in the future are a 2nd Sydney license, Brisbane (if the Bullets lose their license), Newcastle (I’m biased), Canberra and Hobart. Otherwise, no more licenses.

Like football before it, the grass roots are fine, just the pointy professional end is buggered. It needs the right people to put it in forward direction.

• Notice to all dickheads: the next idiot that puts my name down for an iPhone is going to cop it. I don’t want one! #
• Nine has WWE now? That’s a turn-up for the books! #
• Damn you pesky Queenslanders! We’ll be back…you still have one more game to go! It’s on! #

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I’m a fan of the Dead Man Eating blog, which goes into detail the final meal requests of the U.S.’s condemned death row prisoners. It has been on hiatius while the U.S. Supreme Court looks into the legality of the procedures, but some have been contributing their own final meal requests…here’s mine!

• One large thin and crispy pepperoni pizza.
• One large cup of KFC Popcorn Chicken.
• A footlong Subway roasted chicken sub, with bacon, meatballs, lettuce, onion and carrot on Italian herbs and cheese bread.
• A few dollars worth of chips (proper chips, not McDonalds or KFC chips) - with chicken salt.
• Two 1.25L bottles of Coca Cola Zero
• A tub of Peters Light and Creamy Chocolate low fat ice-cream with low-fat chocolate topping.

Now that would be a way to go! Thoughts?

• I’m getting myself back into an exercise regime. The aim? Avoiding insulin needles! #
• I think Olivia Newton John’s “Magic” is very much underrated. #
• I’ve just upped the price for someone bidding on NRL cards over at eBay…oh well, you win some and you lose some. #

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• I’m thinking of moving to a proper host (i.e. one you have to pay for) in order to get proper support and more space. Jumba sounds like a good bet. Thoughts?
• Anything related to the iPhone just shits me. A lot of Apple fanboys (and girls too, I’ve seen those photos) just go nutty whenever Steve Jobs says something. I won’t be buying one, unless they get it to work out here, the phone companies put it on a better plan, and improve the hard disk (i.e. bigger than what it is at the moment).
• And another thing. Someone please kill Ron Paul and his supporters, please? They’ve made the Internet about as enjoyable as shoving a butt-plug embedded with razor blades and nails up your clacker. He has about as much of winning the US presidency as I have of getting into a threesome with Jennifer Hawkins and Scarlett Johansson (or any two attractive starlets). And to the Australians supporting him? Please get out of our country. And don’t come back. You clearly do not have brains.
• Finally….GO NEW SOUTH WALES!!!

• Hint to anyone commenting on my YouTube videos - I am not impressed by drug references OR use of “WTF”. #
• It’s time to regulate. I’m listening to Warren G. What else did you think I meant? #

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• Dammit! I missed the tipping deadline! #
• @Jeffmister I know…I thought I was going to be home early this afternoon…but I got held up at both local supermarkets and at the che … #

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Spontaneity not a feature of Chinas planned Olympic support (from ABC News)

Lamest sports chant ever. You know the Communist Party could’ve come up with some humdingers
to taunt the West with during the Games, now don’t you?

• Sports fans - boycott MyDreamTeam.com.au! Their account deletion policy is appalling. #
• @grum Because it’s free (with the pizza)…that’s about the only reason why they’d want to get a Dominos ringtone. #

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• I wish someone did a CityRail timetable for iPods (NOT iPhone - Mr. Jobs can wake me up when they release a 30GB+ version). #

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