Bynum is the news

The NBA finals is tied at 2-2. I am on track with my prediction that the Lakers will take it in 7. Boston did great stealing game 2 in LA, but gave the advantage right back to LA in game 3. As the team without home court, Boston should be looking at this as a 6 game series. They just cannot win game 7 on the road in the Finals. This means the Boston should have seriously tried to make Truth's prediction come true. Paul Pierce predicted at the end of game 2 that the series ain't coming back to LA - meaning Boston will win the middle 3 games and win the series 4-1. But Boston lost game 3 and now they are coming back to LA. Boston better win game 5 this weekend and win game 6 in LA if they want their second ring. They need to play the next 8 quarters like there is no tomorrow. Game 7 just does not exist as far as the Celtics are concerned. Boston won game 4 behind some strong bench play. They were also helped by the injury to Andrew Bynum and that could be a "gift" that keeps on giving to Boston. I don't think he can really be very effective in this series given the state of his knee. Game 5 might depend on how well this dude plays.

The NBA finals is the top news this time of the year, but Stephen Strasburg and the conference alignment in college football has been challenging the NBA pretty good this week. More on the realignment later, but this dude Strasburg took Washington DC by storm. Every now and then a pitcher's debut causes a lot of excitement, but I can't remember anybody generating as much excitement as this dude. DC and the entire ESPN nation was hyping this start for a couple of days and the dude outperforms even the massive hype. LeBron's debut came to my mind as the closest parallel though nobody will ever have to deal with LeBron's level of hype ever. Strasburg struck out 14 batters and walked none in seven innings. Nationals' won 5-2 over the Pittsburgh Pirates and gave the kid a W. All in all a great day for the sold-out Nationals fan base. His 14 strikeouts were the third-most by any pitcher in history in a big league debut -- behind only J.R. Richard (15) in 1971 and Karl Spooner (15) in 1954. Great start, but a pitcher's career is a marathon, not a sprint.