The Dark Knight Rises Trailer

Now this is epic!The HD trailer to the "epic conclusion of the dark knight legend" has finally been released. Yay. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apMXFloDH6M

The Ultimate Mock Draft 2011

Welcome to the "No Surrender, No Retreat" Mock Draft Version 1.0. We will base this entire draft process off of the statistics of the following season in a fantasy-based format. The players are all from the current NBA rosters and the draft will be composed of teams selected randomly from the current 30 team NBA league. Over the course of the next month, the teams will be selected and the first day of the draft will commence towards the end of the month.

Yao Ming

This post is dedicated to THE ONE AND ONLY, YAO MING. YAO, we are gonna miss you. To Yao, the China Man, the Giant, and one of the greatest big men to ever play the game -- yes, I mean it. 

Fourth of July Announcement

Happy Fourth of July! Unfortunately on this day, Uncle Sam is currently frowning at the ongoing double lockout. Anyways, happy holidays! 

A Scoop of Free Agency #1

As soon as the Los Angeles Lakers were abruptly swept in the second-round by the eventual champion Dallas Mavericks, many Laker fans (including myself) feared for the following season. With the inevitable departure of decorated head coach Phil Jackson and the uncertainty of what next year's Laker squad would look like, many fans (again including myself) began jumping to sporadic conclusions. However, when the dust settles, there are definitely gaping holes in the Lakers' roster. One noticeable one was the outside shooting. After the departure of former Laker guard - Sasha Vujacic - and his horrid 5 million dollar contract, the Lakers lacked the essence of a pure shooter who could spot up in the corner and knock down threes. In the previous offseason, guard Steve Blake was supposedly signed to take up that mantle and utterly failed - shooting a disastrous percentage from downtown. However, with the plethora of pure shooters available in this year's free agent pool (Jamal Crawford/J.R. Smith/Daequan Cook to name a few) the Lakers should look  to acquire a consistent threat from the outside. Another spot in the roster which needs to be fixed is the point guard position. And although the Lakers have been proven to win without a true point guard -- that was with a Phil-Jackson-triangle-offense-run team which does not require a true point guard to properly run the offense. However, with the hiring of Mike Brown to fill Phil's shoes, Laker fans should expect to see a different style of play run next year. GM Mitch Kupchak may have attempted to fill the gap through the draft by selecting guards Darius Morris and Andrew Goudelock, both players with extreme potential. However, you cannot base success off of potential which is why I believe either Mitch searches for a point guard in free agency, snatches one in a trade, or relies on Steve Blake to make up for his horrendous first year with the Lakers. And although this Laker squad is packed with talent, except the Lakers' front office to mildly shake up the roster with basic acquisitions which will fill their needs. 

They Say We Warriors

Start of the double lockout! What can people turn to now without the heart-warming vocals of sportscasters ripping offseason transactions on SportsCenter and the vivid images of entire cities crumbling at the sight of a free agent's departing. Those moments were not the best moments in previous years, but they were the most memorable and what makes sports fans lament for the potentially-lost season. Will we turn to watching tennis? Soccer? Golf? Ping-pong?! The tangy flavor of buffalo wings and the aroma of a barbecue does not properly complement watching someone hit a small ball into a hole as it does watching grown men hit, wrestle, and bang against each other.  Or can we unite our forces and in our temporary boredom -- begin a club which voices are distaste towards the people who caused this madness upon us (cough, cough...David Stern, Roger Goodell). Or are the players to blame? Well, I am in no position to point fingers in a situation like this as I can only hope that BOTH of these lockouts can be resolved (I mean, come on, what are millions of grown men going to do in their Saturday afternoons without the pleasing image of football or basketball on the screen to entertain them). And don't even get me started on the possibility of no Fantasy Sports! What are sports fanatics supposed to turn to then -- FARMVILLE?!?? Surely some braniac (God bless him/her) will invent a suitable way to counteract and fill this gaping hole but as the phrase goes -- IF IT AIN'T (mind the grammer) BROKEN DON'T FIX IT -- we (sports fans) are not looking for an alternative to this problem. We wan't a solution.