Hold Your Head Up High»

I should leave the basketballblogging to Yglesias, but Orlando’s intense play, led by Howard and Turkoglu, have made me a believer. So today’s 90-89 loss was a heartbreaker, particularly after Turkoglu’s under-two-minutes stretch of threes. My dog is still moaning, and was disinterested in Celtics-Cavs. Whatever, it was a moral victory for the Magic.

In other sports news, Elijah Dukes is clearly a troubled man. But ESPN Magazine has a great profile in their current issue (can’t find it online, sorry) that gives me sympathy for someone baseball seems ready to treat as a straight-up monster. More later.