Misc....

--Nebraskans, take comfort in knowing that your top sports columnist can't recognize John Fucking Paxson....

--Amare Stoudemire's penchant for saying all the right things but not doing shit got him through the first two rounds of the NBA playoffs, then he decided to run his mouth. After putting up one rebound compared to Lamar Odom's 19, he called it a 'lucky game.' Odom proceeded to get 11 rebounds in Game 2, Stoudemire 6. It would take him a week's worth of games to get the 30 boards Odom collected in two.

Stoudemire was again worked like a cheap suit by Pau Gasol, who scores at will against the oft-defensively clueless STAT. As bad as he is defending one-on-one, he is MUCH WORSE as a team defender, missing rotation after rotation in critical sequences. After last game, Stoudemire discounted Gasol's domination, saying it was "sheer domination" when I played him in 2005 when he was with Memphis. Whatever.

The Suns should have traded him three years ago when they had the chance at Kevin Garnett. Despite Stoudemire's fake good-teammate act this spring, they should have traded him before the deadline. And now, he will be a free agent this summer. Let him walk. All talk, no substance. Too stupid to play defense. Can't score in the half-court in big situations against good defensive teams. Go away. And everyone can stop patting Steve Kerr on the back just about now.