FIBA update

Championship
USA 118-81 Argentina

3rd place
Puerto Rico 111-107 Brazil

Got to be honest: never figured out how this tournament worked. And even though the stars finally showed up for some reason the talking heads yawned their way through it instead of getting into it. The games were all on at weird times and I was only able to catch random pieces of a handful of games but if given the chance I could've been totally into this. Our greatest--most watchable--stars coming together to whomp the shit out of our neighbors? Dude, why does no one want to see this?

I love international play. As fans we're supposed to be peeved that David Beckham flies to England to play (though no one seemed to mind that his Galaxy teammate Landon Donovan played in Sweden the same day) and that Carmelo Anthony should forego playing for his country to save himself for the Denver Nuggets (yeah, who could pass that up?). But I say fuck all that nonsense! Ignore the sports talk clowns! Look, its more games with a whole new array of the stars you already know and love--why wouldn't we want that? It's freakin' awesome!