Tony Danza can go ahead and engrave "Philip Lutzenkirchen" onto the ESPY for play of the year. A I have never seen anything like this...

Score!!! We just nabbed Abdul Gaddy, the #2 rated HS point guard in the nation. With Gaddy joining Isaiah Thomas and Venoy Overton, is there a better young back court in the land?A

For full irony, see the video clip below. It's filmed at Arizona and touts him as a future wildcat. Taste!!! Lute Olsen, thanks for being really old.A

Google:

Your new system hasnt gotten many users

They only use Vista cuz it came on their computers

Step to me - Ill wrestle you blue

My dyslexic fans, they call me "El Goog"

Well connected - i got crazy links

S-E-O just means what google thinks

Smart people, they wanna work for me

That's why I jack you for your employees

Gmails got females - on fire like foxes

i'm six gigs deep, up in their inboxes

Search market share: 4% you

68 me. this battle rap is through

MSN:

You bought Youtube for 2 billion bucks

He bought Youtube, the search still sucks

Your icon's a joke - it's just a doodle

Your name sounds like a baby retard poodle

Youre net apps - they're slow- they dont work,

nobody uses them, they go for the search

I own your platform, I own IE,

I own all degrees of the game, 3-60

You steal my people? heres the stor-y

I buy Facebook and jack your employees

You might have users, but they'll soon be leavin ya

cuz your search results say search Wikipedia

Our boy James Blake just knocked off Roger!

" Roger Federer directed an angry scream toward his feet. He swatted a stray ball in frustration. He slapped his thigh, hung his head and stomped behind the baseline. And as a last resort, he questioned calls, something he hates to do. That merely made him madder: He went 0-4 on replay challenges. For Federer, it was that kind of night. It has been that kind of year. Federer's bid for his first Olympic singles medal ended Thursday night when he lost to American James Blake. With the sort of lackluster performance once unthinkable for Federer, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals 6-4, 7-6 (2). Blake's victory was a stunner. He had won only a single set in eight previous matches against Federer..."

At $10M/yr, would you rather have 1.7 Corey Maggettes or one Boom Dizzle?

"Maggette, a 6-foot-6 swingman, is expected to be a good fit for Warriors' coach Don Nelson's frenetic, fast-paced style of play. The 28-year-old former Duke star appeared in 70 games last season with the Clippers, averaging 22.1 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists -- all just off his career highs."

This is fantastic:

"Mark Mendicus, 26-year-old Staples employee and principal owner of the fantasy baseball team Beat With Uggla Stick, blasted his underperforming team in the media Monday, going so far as to single out individual players, criticize their recent play, and question their commitment to winning..."

If the Patriots invented the eff you touchdown this year, Cynthia Rodriguez just invented the eff you shopping spree. This past weekend, C-Rod went on a $100K trip to Paris (credit cards that are undoubtedly linked to A-Rod's bank account) just days before filing for divorce. Her buzzer beating spree included first class trans-atlantic tickets for all her family to join her, meals at restaurants, spa treatments and god knows what else.

What did A-Rod do? Went out Monday night and earned his average daily salary of $175K playing 3B for the Yanks, meaning if C-Rod gets her half in divorce proceedings, she can jet over to Paris for round #2 next weekend.

If it wasn't for sports, I wouldn't know anything about lawyering.

Check out what's going on with Schultz v Bennett. The NBA is getting involved to scuttle the lawsuit, but i think that's scuttlebutt. Apparently the coffee king signed a release as part of the 2006 ownership transfer to Bennett...and we're done.

The Sonics are officially gone. It will be entertaining to watch the Howard Schultz lawsuit play out.

That will be fun for a while. Then it will end and the team fka Sonics will be in Oklahoma City and we'll be left with some retired jerseys and championship banners to take down. All the Sonics players will start moving down to the dustbowl tomorrow morning. They'll find some hotel rooms to live out of during the season and keep their agents on speed dial, hoping for a trade to Miami.

The Sonics were dead to me a few months ago, now they really are dead.

Not sports, but a pretty sweet video.

Wish me luck...

For those of you Seattle sports fans who have been looking for a way to quantify just how sorry the state of affairs is up in the Emerald City, have I got the solution for you. Today, Rainout launches the first ever Seattle Sports Index.

The index is simple and devastatingly effective. I went back to the 1976/1977 season, when both the Mariners and Seahawks entered our lives and calculated the winning percentages of all "major" seattle sports teams, namely our three major pro outfits and the two dominant men's sports at the UW (basketball and football). These five percentages are averaged out, giving equal weight to each, and...voila, the Seattle Sports Index.

As a true fan of both the NBA and the Seattle Supersonics, I follow all the Sonics action on the official Sonics homepage on NBA.com. So when I heard rumors about some sort of a trial going on that might decide the fate of the Sonics future in Seattle (they might move?!?!), I actually started to worry a little bit.

Rest assured, dear Rainout readers, talk of a trial is pure hogwash. Cruise on over to the news section of the site and see for yourself. It turns out, this offseason is nothing but business as usual for our beloved Sonics...

Ok fine, it's actually Mariah Carey.

Over the weekend Seahawks captain Lofa Totupu was pulled over for DUI with a BAC of .158. That's a good amount of alcohol but nowhere near the top 10 on the athlete BAC standings.

It is not that shocking that another 'hawk got arrested for DUI in Kirkland (what is it about Kirkland, Stiff drinks, slow speed limits?). Everyone has been writing about how Lofa is very sorry, and how shocked they are that such a class act would do something like this. The most shocking part of the story is being overlooked by so-called career journalists.