Epic Photo: Adam Morrison Sighting

Is that... yes... that's Adam Morrison, and apparently he found a package of Sour Patch Kids. Do you think Kobe even knows his name?

Thanks to Deadspin for this.

Other people that should get their own muppets

Kobe Bryant and Lebron have their own muppets, what's stopping other people from getting their own commercial muppets?

(And by the way, I still can't get over how Kobe's muppet looks nothing like him and doesn't sound like him at all. It's not even wearing a Lakers jerseys)

1. Jonathan Papelbon - Not only could it dance to Flogging Molly but it could also strike out muppet A-rod, which would actually just be a sack of crap on a stick.

2. Stephon Marbury - Steve and Barry's may have gone out of business but their pitchman lives on since he has his no defunct shoe logo tatooed on his skull. A muppet of equal craziness has to be made. Although somebody should probably put a tracking device on the thing so it doesn't go bat crazy and start ripping people's throats out.

3. Adam Morrison - You wouldn't see this muppet out on an NBA court though.

4. Mark Few - Actually, the real life Mark Few is about the size of a muppet.

5. Jose Conseco - It could just walk around accusing everyone of steroid use, and it's crowning moment would be when it outed the Olson Twins for using PEDs.

6. Pacman Jones - Muppet strippers are much cheaper than real strippers.

7. Peyton Manning - with a permenant "Manning Face" ... thank you Bill Simmons for coining that term.

8. "Press Box Hot" Female - it doesn't take much to make a homely muppet right? Thank you Bill Simmons for coining the term press box hot.

9. Casey Knopik - This strange little muppet would chase around squirrels and hike up muppet sized mountians. Which are actually just large trash cans covered in felt.

10. Katy Perry - Is it possible they could give her more cleavage than the real life Katy Pery in her Vegas song music video?

Epic Photo: Remember these guys?

They'll be facing one-another in the NBA Finals. Problem is, neither will get any playing time.

Ladies and gentlemen, the current state of college basketball!

What to do now that the Zags are out of the Tournament

Obviously Spokane sports fans must be in a bit of a conundrum now that Zag fans aren't playing anymore. And there aren't a whole lot of alternatives, luckily though we've come up with a few ideas.

Watch Adam Morrison play for the Lakers - wait scratch that, sit on the bench for the Lakers.

Play pick up basketball - And get beat by that crafty Church League old guy that has somehow mastered the hook shot and doing as little work as possible while playing basketball.

Bloomsday - And judging by the physique of those sitting courtside at Zag games... you'd better get running right now.

Find out what Sean Mallon is doing these days - Something tells me he's at an Irish pub somewhere.

Try to analyze who the Seahawks are going to get in the NFL draft - and freak out when they take a Div. III defensive tackle with "plenty of heart and good character."

Turn your gold into cash - Everyone is doing it these days and I'm sure your gold is perfectly safe in the mail. Nobody is going to mess with it, and I'm sure the company is trustworthy enough to send some money back.

Dress up like a Cowboy and challenge people to "Draw!" - Casey keeps doing this. I don't know why.

Use your twitter account to count down the days before college basketball season starts back up - Also make sure you keep track of how many times Mark Few's name gets tossed around for possible jobs.

Practice your Ronny Turiaf voice - For some reason, my impression always sounds like a Russian Astronaut.

This should keep everyone busy, and keep in mind there's always baseball this summer. And also keep in mind that you dont have to watch just the Mariners. Mix it around, I hear the Blue Jays won't lose 100 games this year. Give them some support.

Things I'd rather see than Duke winning in the NCAA Tournament

Duke is in the sweet sixteen and now we've got some serious issues. They win three more games and their national champs. That cannot happen, in fact, I would rather watch these things than another Duke championship:

(1) Rosanne Barr. Naked.
(2) The women's NCAA Tournament.
(3) A sequel to Battlefield Earth
(4) Howie Long berate another truck owner for using his man step.
(5) Any Simpson's episode involving Lisa as the main focus.
(6) A Seattle Mariners spring training game and the commentary that follows it talking about how their AA prospect looked so good in two and a third innings.
(7) A documentary on what Christian Laettner is doing these days.
(8) Adam Morrison crying at mid-court again.
(9) Jessica Simpson drink beers and eat ribs.
(10) Dickie V rattle on and on about the ACC.

Headlines: The day after St. Patty Mills Day.

Note to the rest of the NIT field: Patty Mills is healthy after he dropped 27 points in a Gaels victory over the Washington State Cougars last night. Yeah, the same Cougars that play a lot of defense.

This matchup between St. Mary's and the Davidson Stephen Currys should be a fun treat for college basketball fans.

Without further delay here is our first round of Headlines for the day:

Obama nominates Steelers owner Dan Rooney the ambassador to Ireland. Wonder if he'll screw the Irish out of a Super Bowl too.

Our friends over at Tailgate 365.com seem to think the Denver Broncos are screwed after the whole Jay Cutler ordeal. I agree with them.

If you're an NBA fan with any sense of humor, you'll enjoy this t-shirt. If you're a Lakers fan, enjoy Adam Morrison.

Spokane County's Unemployment Rate is now a whopping 9.7 percent. Guess that means more people will have time to attend the Spokane Shock game tomorrow.

Seattle is going crazy for the debut of the Sounders. Because lets face it, the Sonics aren't around anymore. Casey will be at the game on Thursday while I watch from a bar somewhere hitting on Sasquatch.

Tom Brady is officially the new Apollo Creed before the fight in the first Rocky movie. Remember how he didn't train and just promoted? Any Pats fans worried about this upcoming season?

Morrison to Lakers

This just came over the AP a few hours ago.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Bobcats traded managing partner Michael Jordan's first draft pick on Saturday, sending struggling forward Adam Morrison and reserve guard Shannon Brown to the Los Angeles Lakers for forward Vladimir Radmanovic.

Jordan's first major decision after becoming part owner with the final say on all basketball decisions was taking Morrison with the third overall pick in the 2006 draft over Brandon Roy, Rudy Gay and others.

Morrison was known for his shaggy hair, and terrible mustache, while playing for the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Unfortunately, unlike Roy, Morrison never lived up to the hype that surrounded him in college.

Morrison, who cut his trademark hair short before this season, will get a chance to crack the Lakers' rotation and become an outside scoring threat. Morrison, who averaged a national-best 28.1 points for Gonzaga in 2005-06, missed all of last season after tearing a knee ligament in a preseason game.

Morrison, due about $5.3 million next season in the final year of his rookie contract, was averaging just 4.5 points while shooting 36 percent from the field and 34 percent from 3-point range.

Roy sure made the state of Washington proud. We'll see if Morrison (aka the overly cocky kid from Spokane) can do the same finally.

Because photos are fun...

Adam Morrison before he saw "Golden Girls" and decided to pay tribute by sporting their hairstyle.

Level 32 Night Elf from World of Warcraft wins Heisman, will use cloaking ability in National Championship Game to fool Florida. White Sox fans banned from football stadium after this photo was taken.

"Your breath smells like goat cheese and a tuna melt? I haven't been this grossed out since I found out I was going to Duke."

You should see how Van Gundy gets his players to run windsprints.

There's the man that allowed the Sonics to leave Seattle, and there's the man that makes me feel kind of glad there isn't an NBA franchise in the Emerald city that could possibly trade for him.

"Health concerns? Health conerns? Screw that, where's my putter?"

Holiday Cards from Sports Celebs!

As much as we love Sean Avery around here at Just South of North, not for making his sloppy seconds comment, but for really pissing off Joel Willits of FishBear Sports. Something tells me Avery would have made a nice addition to the Tri-City Americans.

Who's that guy sitting next to the left of Lebron? McLovin? This card will probably be sent to Cleveland's front office. Merry Christmas 2010!

Dana Jacobson, kicking butt at college parties since 2007.

I own the $15 shoes but not the $150 shoes. I would imagine Lebron would send this to Stephon.

I know... I'm totally making fun of somebody with diabetes. Way too far.

Remember how bad football season was?

Well the hoops season has started oh so much better. Washington State is receiving votes in the Top 25 poll instead of providing less competition to USC than their practice squad, the Gonzaga Bulldogs are ranked No. 5 in the nation and the Eastern Washington Eagles are playing some pretty good ball and kickoff their Big Sky Conference schedule this Saturday against Montana State at Reese Court.

While everyone expected the Cougs and Zags to be doing pretty good at this point, the Eagles are a bit of a surprise at 5-2. Namely because of this guy...

No not Bobby Knight, he's moonlighting as an ESPN analyst at the moment, the guy on the right is Benny Valentine, perhaps the best athlete EWU has seen walk through its doors since Rodney Stuckey. Don't believe me, here's the stat line for every game so far for Valentine.

vs. Illinois - 14 points
vs. UC Irvine - 17 points
vs. Texas Arlington - 28 points
vs. Minnesota - 29 points
vs. UC Irvine - 21 points

That's every game he's led the Eagles in scoring this season. If this were a player for Gonzaga, we'd probably be hearing about how he should be named Player of the Year.

And speaking of the Zags, they showed what they made of at the Old Spice Classic and they seem to be doing just fine without this guy...

I'm glad that Spokane will be remembered for producing the athlete that looks like the hero who wears a mask in V for Vendetta. Way to improve this city's image!

But hey, if Pargo does his thang, I think we'll be forgetting about Morrison a whole lot quicker since he seems to not be making very many waves in the NBA.

And as far as WSU goes, we'll I'm fully convinced they'll win 20 games this season and only cross the fifty-point barrier in conference play about three times. Who's ready for a 35-20 NCAA Tournament first round win?

Adam Morrison is alive

People in Spokane may get a chance to see Adam Morrison again before he's whisked away to the basketball black hole known as the Charlotte Bobcats and never seen again (Until the Bobcats move to Seattle to replace the Sonics).

The 'stache is hosting a golf tournament benefiting charity, and also to throw in a little curve ball, he's also having a Halo 3 Tournament.

Say what you will about the guy, but that's an ingenious idea. Who wouldn't want to match up against the former Gonzaga player in a matchup of the Master Chiefs.

And they're hosting it in the middle of a mall so it's bound to bring a crowd.

I really hope this doesn't become a common occurrence for Adam, since holding a controller is much different than taking a jump shot in the NBA. He's had a rough go so far with injuries and such (missed all of last season), which is a shame. I'm keeping score right now with who's going to turn out better, my alma mater's Rodney Stuckey or Morrison. But if he continues to be on the DL, we're never going to be able to settle that.

One thing is for sure though, Gonzaga really needs one of its kids to do good in the NBA. Turiaf has become a solid sixth man, but he's more of a Mark Madsen light (I just puked in my mouth).

Other people that should have quit when they were ahead...

In honor of Brett Favre un-retiring, and jerking his team around like a self-esteem shattered girlfriend, I've decided to come up with a list of people that should have quit when they were ahead...

1. Napoleon
You had almost all of Europe under control and then you decided to invade Russia. Had you ever looked at a map before invading Russia? That place isn't your normal Austria or Hungry establishment, it's freakin' gigantic and it stretches over Asia. Good call on that one.

2. Ralph Nader
No, you don't get to turn the 1.5 percent of the vote into Chucky Cheese's for prizes. Sorry.

3. Cuba Gooding Jr.
Hanes commercials playing second fiddle to Michael Jordan. Remember when you were Radio?

4. The University of Idaho Football Program
Just give it up already and switch the WCC conference.

5. Adam Morrison's Moustache
Really should have quit that a long time ago, like when it reached it's peak furry-ness at about age 11.

6. The Chicago Cubs
And we all thought Boston Red Sox fans had it bad. If you want to go back to good times at Wrigley, be prepared to start saying things like "I Like Ike" and "You're a square bear."

7. Will Ferrel
Could have done with Anchorman 3, Will, you're not fooling us by changing the theme and putting a different title on it.

8. Jose Conseco
But instead you went ahead and got the crap punched out of you in a celebrity boxing match. Wow, the twilight of your career has really taken on the same arc as ambassadors of the game such as Mark McGuire, Pete Rose and Bill Buckner.

9. Michael Jordan
Washington Wizards... nuff said.

10. Michael Jordan
Exec of the Charlotte Bobcats, with worse talent-seeking skills than Isiah Thomas. Nuff Said.

Don't be that intramurals guy...

Man, who doesn't love college intramurals. You've got a quarter of the people taking the game way to serious to the point where fisticuffs break out, a quarter of the people who belong to the frat that refs are a part of and get all the calls and then about half of us that remain are mildly sane.

Then there are these people

1. The Sweat Monkey

Covered in a wonderful sheen of his own mucus, the sweat monkey is always the toughest player to guard on the court because nobody wants to catch Hepititis from the guy's sweat. He also smells like someone mixed together raw tuna and a buffalo hide.

2. The guy that has absolutely no business being on the court or field

Forget playing high school sports, you're contemplating if this guy has even left his room in the past five years. He wears accents such a hiking boots with his shorts and an X-files t-shirt that says "Scully is a hotty". Now while we here at JSON think Scully is indeed a hotty, we don't play intramural sports anymore, so we're off the hook. However, we're pretty sure that our love for a fictional FBI agent is why Harry Potter fans laugh at us.

3. The Miami Fan

Never quite got this one. Despite the fact that they're from Ohio, the insist on wearing their Ricky Williams jersey during flag football and Dwayne Wade threads during bball. If that wasn't weird enough, he actually makes references to Don Shula and Marino when he's playing.

4. The old dude

Fresh off his flashback from Nam, this guy had decided to come back to school to get a degree and the full college experience, which would be fine except when he snaps people's necks with his special forces moves when somebody fouls him hard.

5. The Ringer

We're pretty sure Adam Morrison doesn't go to college any more so we're still wondering why he's listed as one of the other team member's distant cousin from Brasil in a late minute substitution. However, true to his NBA career, he has a poor shooting night and finishes with 10 points.