I love the Eagles, but I hate Dave Spadaro. I know I can't be the only one. Let's see what his latest nonsensical bit of propaganda was about. I'm guessing he's gonna make a case for why Sav Rocca deserves Pro Bowl consideration.

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I love the Eagles, but I hate Dave Spadaro. I know I can't be the only one. Join me as we frolic through his lush field of hackery.

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How adorable. You all thought you'd be the fan favorites this season. HA HA HA HA HA. (Photo by D. Clarke Evans/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Hey sheeple, how y'all doin'? Since we all worship at the altar of Manu, I imagine quite well.

I know the fact that I'm posting after a good game from La Enfermadad is as predictable as it tacky, but I swear, my work schedule had a lot to do with it. Also, I'm sure a lot of you expected me to post something about the whole bat thing after the Kings game, and don't get me wrong, it was wicked awesome, but I thought the coverage was so overexposed that I purposefully distanced myself from it.

The guy's one of the 15-best players in the league and a future HOFer, and NOW the PTIs, the Around the Horns, and thousands of sports blogs across the globe will pay attention to him? For going all Neo on a varmint? BAH!

While I thought the incident was cool, everything afterward was the lamest of the lame, so I just observed it from afar, my eyes rolled up all the while.

Anyway, let's talk some hoops after the jump...

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Game 2: Bulls 92, Spurs 85            T-1st in Division, T-6th in Conference

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Spurs 113, Hornets 96 (Spurs 1-0, 1st in Division, T-1st in Conference)

Well that was just all kinds of awesome. I'm not sure if it's possible to have more fun with clothes on than it will be to watch a Spurs game this season. In fact I won't make any promises whatsoever to be covered up from this point forward.

Could that game have gone any more according to script?

Well, Manu could've dunked on a couple of people. And I suppose Chris Paul could've been caught on camera openly weeping.

Outside of that though, a rousing standing ovation.

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Hey there.

How ya doin?

As most of you know, I spend most of my time covering football these days (and boy did my Iggles crap all over themselves at Oakland last Sunday), but seeing as how I couldn't possibly be any more excited about our Spurs starting things up for real on Wednesday against CP3* and the rest of the delightfully inadequate Hornets, I thought I'd venture over to Deadspin's favorite new basketball blog and write up a little preview.

Personally, I don't understand why everyone's making such a big deal about Wayne giving Manu some alfajores, when nobody made a peep about him giving Tony a wicked case of the clap.

Can someone help me out with that?

Anyway, here's your preview, after the jump.

* To me the "CP" in CP3 doesn't stand for "Chris Paul" but seeing as how this is a family blog, decorum prevents me from elaborating.

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Hey there peeps. I hardly have enough time to poop anymore, but I thought I'd check in and see how everyone is doing. I see that Tony is upset with the team - sacre bleu! - because they had the nerve to question the severity of his ankle injury. 

Maybe the front office is being overly cautious, sensitive as they are to have that luxury tax investment they put into the Jefferson and McDyess signings, and worrying too soon about it the risk. Maybe it's unfair to compare Tony's situation to Manu's. Maybe the front office wasn't worried about the diagnosis at all and just used it as smoke screen to prevent Tony from playing where they otherwise contractually couldn't.

Obviously I would sound like a pretty big hypocrite here if I wrote that I don't want Tony to play after wholeheartedly supporting Manu's decision last year. After all, I compared an athlete being called to play for his country to getting drafted for the military and declining the honor to draft-dodging.

That being said, I don't want Tony to play.

However, I don't think I'm being two-faced about this. The two situations aren't the same. Manu was competing in the Olympics - the ultimate international tournament - he was the captain of a country expected to medal, the leader of the defending Olympic champions, and he was even chosen as the flag bearer of his country in the opening ceremonies.

Tony on the other hand is being asked to participate in some two bit qualifying tournament consisting of a bunch of second-tier European countries and the field is so thin that France is expected to do well enough even without him. If you remember, Manu skipped the qualifying tournament the summer before last and only participated in the actual Olympics (though he was in the World Championships two years before that).

If France qualifies for the Olympics (and again, they probably would, even without Tony), I would fully endorse Parker playing in the tournament, even though France sucks, they have no hope of medaling and they probably wouldn't even beat Turkey if both Turkoglu and Okur are playing.

For other Stampler opinions, clickity click on the jump, as I've got more "talking" to do.

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Happy 32nd Birthday to Manu Ginobili, my favorite basketball player of all time and the Flying Spaghetti Monster's Personal Jesus.

Unless he wants to be a wise guy and move it back another month, that is. I wouldn't put it past him, since he is, you know, a wizard.

I can only commemorate the occasion with a Manu Youtube mix. I think this one might be the best (and longest) out there. Props to Santi for all his good work.

Manu Ginobili - La Historia de un Campeón ((By Santi)) (via videosdelbasquet)

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According to Spurstalk. Nobody here had this? Apparently RJ blabbed it to someone...

First Blair misses yesterday's summer league for mysterious reasons (contract? knees?) and now this...

I knew I was right to have doubts about RJ. The guy's a flake.