AOL FanHouse has the perfect way to celebrate Larry Bird turning 50 today: video of that McDonalds commercial where he plays horse with Michael Jordan.

I thought you boys would be interested in this story...

Kevin Federline BEGGED the Webster Hall people to allow his show to go on last night despite the fact that only 300 people showed up to the 1,500 capacity club. My favorite part is that an eyewitness said Federline "seemed really confused about how to act on stage. He would pace from one side of the stage to the other, just saying things like, 'Hey' thirty times in a row or 'New York, thank you for coming - buy my CD.'"

Anyone ever think that this loser is Brittney's brilliant way of staying in the spotlight even while she's barefoot and fat? She's making guys around the country imagine that, since they are cooler than her husband, they've still got a chance with her. Then when she's ready she'll dump him, and... oops! She did it again.

The NTSB has determined that Cory Lidle's crash was due to a light wind that blew the plane off-course and into the Eastside high rise. More importantly, they said that Lidle was trying to make a U-turn over the East River, with a questionable amount of room to do so. So... operator error.

Do you guys know this story? Some guy tried to extort $3 million out of Carmelo Anthony by saying he had video of Melo in a fight. He got caught, and now he's getting locked up for three years. One for each million. LOL.

This is kind of a post to get you to check out ESPNs new NBA team previews. They're pretty good. But the best thing about them, as True Hoop points out, is the blogger commentary for each team. Boring mainstream analysis side-by-side with witty blogger commentary... "People, we are living in a time of change."

Like dropping the football on the half yard line after a 99 yard run... this marathoner is lucky the Chicago Marathon judges aren't as strict. This isn't funny. But it's kind of funny. ;)

Now that my A's have been humbled by the bad boys from Detroit, it's time to start looking to the future.... which more and more seems like it's going to be in Fremont, not Oakland. Fine. So now the question is what will the name be? Here's a good case for why it will end up not the San Jose A's, not the Oakland A's, not even the Bay Area A's... but the Silicon Valley A's. Argh!

Actually this is a great read, and there's some gems in the comments.

The Pastime sums up the good (Kotsay, Bradley and Payton's offense, and the bullpen), the bad (basically everything else), and the ugly (Swisher, Big Hurt, and Scutaro are 0/22 with 11 Ks in this series). As an A's fan, I thought I was watching a completely different team last night. What happened to the "loosest dugout in the postseason?!"

This is sickening. Croatian fans jeopardized their team's chances of playing in Euro 2008, when 200 of their supporters formed a human swastika in the stands during a friendly vs. Italy. I can't understand this -- don't they teach history in Croatia?

Maybe he crawled to the GM and begged them to pick up the option on his contract. Anyway, he'll be making $12 million to try to make up for poor playoff judgement.

You heard the flap: did McNabb text message T.O. or didn't he? Whatever the truth, the fact is that athletes have been talking about texting each other more and more these days. In the latest fit of technosavviness, Frank Thomas and Magglio Ordonez admit to trading texts daily. The Postmen think it goes something like this:

"Frank: Wat u doin?

Mags: Just left BP, bout 2 go get perm

Frank: Lol. Were goin to beat u

Mags: Rotfl. Zito is gay. Ill p0wn him

Frank: Well c. G2G bye.

Mags: Bye fatty."

Check out this photo of well-prepared Jason Grilli in the dugout after today's Yankees whoopin. This sums up the celebration in Detroit for me. I've never seen anything like that for a World Series, let alone a division series!

If you haven't seen Albert Haynesworth stomping on Andre Gurode's helmetless head, check this out. Gurode needed 30 stitches after this zinger.

Shaq, not at all worried about being fined, says that the person at the NBA who decided to switch from leather balls to the new composite models "should be fired." At least now he'll have something to blame his free throw percentage on.

This is creepy. Especially the way the clip wraps up... doesn't Mr. Rogers have a guilty look in his eye when he realizes that Brandon's parents have arrived?

Anyway, his is an important historic clip. I'm going to call it the birth of modern video gaming.