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The OC Goddesses

By Craig Kwasniewski

First off, this isn't a retrospective piece on Rachel Bilson or Mischa Barton (though The O.C. reruns on the Soap have led me to put Bilson on my freebie list).

ANYWAY... put this in the category of off-season boredom and something I did not know...

Christian hoops fans appreciate some live ass at their games. The OC Gladiators of the fledgling ABA basketball league have their own dance team, the OC Goddesses. See the Gladiators' owner David R. Clarke is involved in "various faith based initiatives." His myspace page has "God Family Hoops Investing" as an interest. (Shockingly to absolutely nobody he lists Fox News as another "interest.") So basically this new franchise is a faith based hoops team (heavy sigh... just when I finally got over that that whole cross thing that Mark Jackson used to do toward the end of his career).

ANYWAY, so with a faith-based hoops squad OF COURSE you need some hot chicks to tease you into submission. So the marketing geniuses came up with the OC Goddesses (see... they're christian and they dance... goddesses... get it? GET IT????).

So if you can't make it out to the next Gladiators prayer session game you can still check out these checks in their new calendar here for $6.99. Here's some Goddesses links (BTW - am I going to hell if I say God-asses?):

OC Goddesses Page at the OC Gladiators website

OC Goddesses website

The Worst D-League News Ever!

By Craig Kwasniewski

You need to be sitting down for this one...

According to the NBA (buried deep into the article in a single sentence, which is never a good sign):

Two franchises who played in the 2006-07 season (Arkansas RimRockers, Fort Worth Flyers) will not operate during the 2007-08 season.

Yes our favorite D-League franchise is all but dead. Much like when a horrible TV show goes on "extended hiatus" the odds of the Arkansas RimRockers making a triumphant return in 2008-09 is about the same as Amy Winehouse NOT being a tranny. It's a sad day here at TAB and with 50% of the reason why we ever paid attention to the NBADL gone, I really don't know if I could ever get the strength to watch another empty seated arena on NBA-TV ever again.

(BTW - the other 50% is to keep a TAB on my main man Ha Seung-Jin of the Anaheim Arsenal.)

Anyway, until someone puts up a "bring back the RimRockers!" petition website, you can re-live the magic and buy Arkansas Rim Rockers Logo T-Shirt for $14.99. Keep the dream alive and keep on rockin' that rim!

Ha Has the Last Laugh

By Craig Kwasniewski

Ladies and gentleman, a Ha Seung-Jin sighting!

Actually it was more than a sighting as The Korean Gheorghe Muresan kicked some serious Kazak ass and led South Korea to a 80-76 win over Kazakhstan during a third-fourth placed classification game at the Asia basketball championship in Tokushima, Japan.

As third-fourth classification matches go, I heard this was quite the barn-burner. In one of those whacky bets by politicians, the President of S. Korea bet 5 lbs. of kimchee to a crate of potassium from the Premier of Kazakhstan.

Being a huge fan (Who Ha?) I feel compelled to post any new photos of my man Ha Seung-Jin.

BTW - according to his wikipedia page he's currently playing for the Anaheim Arsenal in the NBA D-League. I just took a look at his NBADL stats... over 7-feet tall against D-League talent he averaged a whopping 2.7 ppg. Dude... just how bad are the Kazak bigs? And more importantly, how soon before Jim Buss signs one of them?

Anyway, celebrations and Wookie primal screams all around...

Kenny Anderson's Crazy Coaching Krunk!

By Craig Kwasniewski

First off, we at TAB are not the official coaching news source here... HOWEVER I really can't pass this one up. Kenny Anderson will be coaching Krunk... The Atlanta Krunk.

According to yahoo.com, "Former Georgia Tech point guard and NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson was hired as coach of the CBA's Atlanta Krunk on Tuesday."

In his press conference a jovial Kenny Anderson couldn't contain himself:

I am very excited about being a part of the CBA organization. Becoming a coach after playing in the NBA has been a goal of mine that I dreamed about fulfilling for many years. Being the Head Coach for the CBAs first team in Atlanta, the Atlanta Krunk , is a great opportunity. Many great coaches started their career with the CBA, such as, Phil Jackson, George Karl, and Flip Saunders.

Well Flip Saunders was definitely mad krunk during game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

BTW - Was it me or did Phil Jackson coach the Albany Tweaked Outs? And didn't Karl coach the Montana Golden Baseheads?

Anyway, the 2 Live Stews were the ones to first break this story a few days ago. And when talented individuals like the 2 Live Stews speak... well we all better listen.

The Atlanta Krunk, who are partly owned by Freedom Williams (yes, THAT Freedom from C&C Music Factory), are dangerously close to supplanting the Arkansas Rimrockers as my favorite minor league hoops franchise.

Pause take a breath go for yours

On my command now hit the dance floor

I'm gonna make you sweat till you bleed...