Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Feb. 27, 2009
Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today. Maybe.
+ Tom Brady and Giselle have tied the knot. Where was my invite? {EMQB.}
+ Manny Ramirez is still refusing offers from the Dodgers. How long can this last? {Walkoff Walk.}
+ Your first big free-agent sigining: Albert Haynesworth inks a seven-year deal with the Redskins worth over $100 million. {DC Pro Sports Report.}
+ NBA players Trey could beat in a fight. {The Blowtorch.}
+ Non-sports: After 150 years, the Rocky Mountain News shuts down operation today. {Washington Post.} VH1 has censored out some comments from Kanye West’s “Storytellers.” {Stereogum.}
Quotable:
“He was hard to get around if you had the basketball. He was hard to figure sometimes. And his hardheadedness was legendary.
You didn’t want to be around Van Lier when there was a loose ball.
He doesn’t have to fight anymore, not for respect, not for his due, not for anything. He was found dead Thursday morning. The cause of death wasn’t immediately known.
I sat with Van Lier on a Comcast SportsNet show once and never forgot the way he rocked back and forth when he talked about a team’s lack of desire and hustle. I can’t recall which team it was — Bulls, Cubs, Bears, it didn’t matter. He was torqued.
At that particular moment, there seemed to be a very good chance that, given the opportunity, he would tackle a running back or take out a shortstop on a hard slide into second base.
He wasn’t a superstar. He was a presence. He was the checkpoint you had to get past. He had to be accounted for. As a player, he demanded that.” – Rick Morrissey
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