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Monday Donuts: 'Easter Eggs' On Labor Day?
By Mike Fisher -- DB.com
Another Mavs uniform hint ... Iverson does a meeting ... what does "Championship or Bust'' even mean? ... and my ability to "Name That Tune'' in one note ... Monday Morning Donuts!
DONUT 1: Another new-Mavs-alternate-jersey hint thanks to reader “ndnjumpman’’: Click into the “color/size’’ box …
Seriously, this hunt – which has DB.com and its readers eliminating some clues, unveiling others and noting that the unveiling will apparently occur on Sept. 21 -- is sorta fun. It’s like the concept of “Easter Eggs’’ in the movies! (Or, video games, for you youngsters.)
DONUT 2: Iverson will be with Memphis today for a meeting. I will not be surprised to hear him holding a post-meeting press conference in which he states, "Meetings? Meetings? We're talking about meetings! How the hell can I make my teammates better by meeting?''
DONUT 3: So Jerry Jones pitched another one of his ramp-up-to-the-season “Super Bowl or Bust’’ speeches, and why not? But …
What’s the “bust’’?
I say this all the time about the Mavs, too, when media members or fans, say, “They better win this year or else …’’ or “Dirk’s time is running out so. …’’
“Or else’’ what? “So …’’ what?
So it’s “Super Bowl or Bust!!’’ … but the “bust’’ simply means, “Or else we’ll have an offseason and then try it again the following year, and every following year into perpetuity.’’
DONUT 4: I know this might sound odd coming from somebody who does what I do for a living. But check out Marcin Gortat's new-found "non-disappointment'' over remaining in Orlando vs. coming to Dallas and tell me that we shouldn't take every interview and every comment granted by an athlete with a grain of salt.
DONUT 5: Final cutdowns and assembly of practice squads make for an odd Sunday at Valley Ranch. Holley goes from a reality-TV show to the P-Squad. Meanwhile, fellow backup Cowboys receiver Stanback is picked up by the Patriots … who plan to switch him back to his college position of QB.
All of which means that reality-TV out-scouted the Cowboys scouting department on one guy … and that the Patriots think the Cowboys had the entirely wrong position for another guy.
DONUT 6: Ricky Williams weds, which became legal only after ESPN The Magazine annulled his marriage to Ditka.
DONUT 7: Matt Harpring might retire?
DONUT 8: Misty Mav invites you to buy your DallasBasketball.com T-shirt from her, please ... and take it from me … or her: “The UberMan’’ and “The DUST Chip’’ and the rest are spectacular! Order now! Oh, and take advantage of the Dirk September Special … you might win Dirk’s jersey!
She notes today that it’s a wonderful time to celebrate your support of The UberMan with a shirt. Girl’s right, as usual.
DONUT 9: The Cowboys made 12 draft picks and how few of them are making the team? Jerry on Draft Day is now setting the NFL’s version of “The Mendoza Line.’’
DONUT 10: Steve Nash, ballin’ in Beijing.
DONUT 11: DB.com The Hornets owner keeps saying the Hornets don't need to do money-saving deals. Yet the Hornets continue to talk trade ... with the focus being on money-saving.
What was that I wrote above about Gortat and a grain of salt?
DONUT 12: The other NFC East teams went 1-3. Dallas went 2-2. “We won our division in the preseason,’’ said Coach Wade, and for saying such a thing, we oughta punt HIM into the scoreboard.
DONUT 13: And your baker’s dozen donut: Ira Winderman does a terrific job covering the Heat and the NBA. A must-read. But he may be missing the point of the Summer of 2010 when he asks:
If the Raptors don't make the playoffs, is there any possible way Bosh stays? If the Heat makes it to the second round, doesn't that change everything with Wade? And shouldn't anything short of the NBA Finals scare the dickens out of those in Cleveland?
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