The Daily Grind

-Some housekeeping items:
1. I will be doing a live blog tomorrow for the NBA Draft. I was hoping to do more, like contact other bloggers and such, but I just have not had the time. Stop in, comment, it should be a lot of fun.
2. I am looking into updating the look of this blog, inspired in part by Joe Posnanski's new and shiny layout. Any suggestions are obviously welcome.

-Onto the sports. In Peter Gammons' blog today, he noted that the Yankees, Cubs, Red Sox and Mets are all worth in the range of 800 million-1.2 billion dollars. SNY and NESN are worth 1.5 billion each, with YES being worth 3 billion. I am not sure how Gammons knows this. I don't know much about business, so how are these networks considered seperate from the teams?

-Courtney Lee out of Western Kentucky University could be picked at number thirty by the Boston Celtics. He can really shoot the ball and could do a great job spelling Ray Allen right away.

-I also really like Chris Douglas-Roberts out of Memphis. Rodney Stuckey and Douglas-Roberts could usher in a new, dynamic era for the Detroit backcourt.

-DeAndre Jordan out of Texas A and M is one of the more athletic centers I have seen in quite some time. Chad Ford has him slipping to Memphis at #28. I know he's a major project, but I think he's going to be a stud, and he was talked about as a lottery pick months ago.

-I'm just going to run down a list of busts-in-waiting... Yes, I am prepared to eat my words... Kevin Love (UCLA), Eric Gordon (Indiana)... Wait let me write that last one in capitals, its my lock of the year... ERIC GORDON... Roy Hibbert (Georgetown), J.J. Hickson (North Carolina State), and Donte Green (Syracuse).

-Here a some names from Chad Ford's second round predictions, guys I like: DJ White (Indiana), Sean Singletary (Virginia), and Sasha Kaun (Kansas). Kaun is likely to play in Russia, but he should be a good NBA center with a little more seasoning.

Old School Rap Video of the Day:
Wyclef Jean- President
Does it count? I love this song... Is it stupid? Is it brilliant?

Miscellaneous Video of the Day:
Malibu of American Gladiators
"He took a licking and he's still ticking."