BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

NBA shorts

Washington 88 vs. Cleveland 87
The last shots taken by Caron Butler and LeBron James were nearly identical. Each shot -- ugly as it was -- used the rim to try and get a friendly bounce. One went in. The other didn't. But credit both players for taking it in for the high percentage shot. Bron should have stuffed it though.

Boston 110 vs. Atlanta 85
The Hawks are this year's Golden State model and they're going back to Philips Arena to try and take care of business there. But unlike the spineless Dallas Mavericks, the Celtics aren't backing down.

Credit Atlanta coach Mike Woodson who played a solid yet low-key NBA career mostly with the Kansas City-Sacramento Kings for playing under the radar yet hard-nosed hoops.

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