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There are a lot of good ways, and not so good ways, to spend $12. You could purchase a ticket to go see Confessions of a Shopaholic, … and then give your date a $1 donation towards her ticket. This is a great idea if you don’t like your date very much. This is a terrible idea if she ranges anywhere from a 7.85 to a 9.99 on J-Ri’s Scientific Scale to Determine Hotness’. This is an average to below average idea (depending on your soy protein intake for the day) if you don’t have a date.

David Stern is a man to be respected. Thanks to his genius, millions of guys all over America asked themselves this question sometime on or around the afternoon of Valentine’s Day:

“I wonder how I can watch All-Star Saturday and somehow avoid waking up completely alone tomorrow morning?”

I can just imagine the phone calls guys were making around 6:30p:

Another quality opponent, another loss. The Lakers fell flatter than Kate Hudson in the 4th quarter, losing again to the Orlando Magic, 109-103. In the last 1:07 of the game, the Lakers went 1/3 from the line and 1/6 from the floor, including 0/3 from beyond the arc.

Ugh. Can you smell that? It’s the stench of an old rival. Remember them? After there was Boston in 80′s, and before there was Boston again last year, there were the Spurs soaking up all the animosity of Laker fans. As last night’s frustrating conclusion unfolded, all the years of abhorrence for San Antonio came rushing back to the surface.

I sincerely hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Mine was filled with food that I would never eat the other 364 days of the year.

Why not take a break? I mean, you can only pretend to like that one family member with a drinking problem for so long, right?

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Christmas is supposed to be a time overflowing with warm memories, family traditions and enough food to feed either a village in Africa or one of Charles Barkley’s faces. Between waking up in the morning and 5:17pm ET, Christmas Day was very similar to what many of you may have experienced. We opened a few gifts, cracked some jokes at each others expense and I personally ate food as though it would not cost me hours and hours in the gym.

I couldn’t decide on a lead-in to this story, so I’m going to write a few of them. This is your chance to be eleven years old again and choose your own adventure. Don’t act like you’re not excited.

My suggestion: Cheat and read them all.

To say the Lakers defense has been bad lately is like saying Rosie O’Donnell is round. Sure, she’s round. Then again, so is the Earth. I feel like I’m watching five poorly dressed door guards check VIP passes. Only, they’re not very good at it. They let everyone inside. Yes, even the semi-cute girl who decided to bring her “friend”. Memo to the Lakers: Staples Center isn’t the Ivar and Lindsay Lohan isn’t wearing a basketball jersey. Roll up the red carpet and close the door.

The Sacramento Queens, as the Diesel so famously called them, paid the Lakers a visit at Staples Center tonight. More on that in just a moment. After tonight’s game, I went to the gym, spent some time reading and jumped in bed (i.e. the couch) with every intention of falling asleep. … Fox Sports West [...]