Mavs Sunday Donuts: Hosted By Mario Lopez!

Sunday Morning Donuts, with championship rings, Slam-Dunk junk and Mario Lopez! Does it get any better than that? Well, yes, it does get better than Mario Lopez. But that’s the best I’ve got right now. …

    DONUT 1: The Mavs starting backcourt scored a combined six points in Game 1 against Washington, scored a combined six points in Game 2 against the Lakers and … scored a combined seven points in Game 3 against the Clippers.

    Otherwise, it would’ve been a 666 on Halloween.

    Boo.

    DONUT 2: Sad to see my friends at D Magazine pull the plug on  “Inside Corner,’’ if only because of my more-the-merrier philosophy regarding DFW sports coverage. I think it’s fair to say that when Rangers-mad Evan Grant joined the site it’s a move that was financed by Rangers-mad Dr Pepper … and when Evan recently departed the site to return to the Dallas paper, Dr Pepper opted to pull its sponsorship.

    Unfortunately, that leaves one of the site’s greatest assets, Bob Sturm of the Ticket (a radio host by day but a largely untapped resource as a real live journalist) without that platform.

    I think The Sturminator will survive; he’s got his own blog and can be his own boss there.

    But …

    If Bob Sturm ever wants to jack around with our 75-Member Staff, he is always welcome.

     DONUT 3: With the wins at LA-LA, the Mavs are now the 2009-10 season’s winningest team at the Staples Center. Haha!

     DONUT 4: A wonderful, wonderful memory-inducing photograph from 1984: The fellas who participated in the first NBA Slam-Dunk Contest. 

     DONUT 5: Manu Ginobili is a killer. Somebody call PETA!

     DONUT 6: The “FISH on FOOTBALL’’ stuff is up and running at Blogging The Boys. Stats, snark, insight, quote, news, more snark. ... please head on over to Mike Fisher’s new Cowboys home at BtB and enjoy! Show your support for all things FISH and check it out!

     DONUT 7: Your DallasBasketball.com T-shirt is here! The “DallasBasketball.com classic’’ and “The UberMan’’ and the “Fish for Lunch’’ and “The DUST Chip’’ are yours for the taking! Please visit the DB.com Store today!

    DONUT 8: The Bucks’ Andrew Bogut has been vocal about the flashy tastes of Americans and “the greedy culture of the NBA. No wonder he denies reports that he owns a Ferrari.

    DONUT 9: SI’s Ian Thomsen says the NBA is considering the idea  a postseason tournament in which the Nos. 8-through-15 teams in each conference would play up to play-in games in pursuit of the eighth and final spot in the playoffs.

    DONUT 10: The baseball playoffs umps in this postseason have been so bad that when they call games on account of rain, I’m half-assuming it might be sunny.

    DONUT 11: Chuck Hayes was named one of the Rockets’ captains. It’s such an important honor that he is barely even aware that he is a captain. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6693987.html

   DONUT 12: Ball Don't Lie has some  pics and details about the Lakers' 2009 championship rings. 

   DONUT 13: My 75-Member Staff spies were everywhere this weekend, on the Seen-and-Be-Scene Scene … The celebrity-spotting game in Dallas? Mario Lopez is as good as it gets. He was at Al Biernat's restaurant on Friday, watching Mavs-Lakers.

     Think LA was any better? Jeanne Buss (the Lakers exec, daughter of the owner, Playboy poser and Phil JackZen paramour) tweeted before Friday’s game that the Lakers’ “special guests’’ were “the Australian Posh & Becks- popstar Chantelle Delaney and Aussie Footballer Jess Sinclair.

    So Dallas wins ... with only Mario Lopez.