Oct 26, 2008 | 9:33 AM | Sunday Morning Skip Pass

by: Paul Miles

I'm still wearing the afterglow of a Game 3 Phillies win. So here's an incredibly distracted edition of the Skip Pass.

NBA
:: LA Times: Lakers-Celtics clash in Finals would rock - LA Times columnist Mark Heisler is calling out the Celtics for an NBA Finals runback. Screw that. How about an '83 rematch? Hey LA, how you like Mo Cheeks now?

:: SacBee: Kings relent to economic downturn - The $10 seats are up in the Bob Ueker Memorial Section about three rows above the cat walks.

:: Philly.com: Speights shows signs of making Sixers' starting lineup - Speaking of Mo Cheeks, Marreese Speights has been slayin' it in the preseason, giving the coach a reason to find minutes.

:: BILB: A generous offer from The David. - Buck up, Sonics fans, we know you don't have a team of your own to dedicate your meager existences to. But hey, you can always follow the Thunder on League Pass! That totally makes up for having your squad uprooted and moved halfway across the country, then rebranded as an AAU team hoping to play for the Knicks one day. And if that isn't enough, man, that logo is so hot, I can't imagine not seeing tens of thousands of OKC Thunder hats boppin' around the Washington state.

:: A Stern Warning - A new look "...a stern warning" is up and running. Love the new banner. Good luck with the new network.

World
:: Tomorrow we'll have an interview with Ed Odeven, an editor with the Japan Times. Ed covers Japan's top basketball league, the BJ-League for Japan's top English-edition newspaper. He also covers baseball. Warning to my fellow Phillies fans. I can't promise he won't bring up bad memories when he and I talk World Series.

:: CSKA Moscow 81:73 Spartak St. Petersburg - The Red Army Team earned a hard-fought 2nd win in Russian Superleague action over Spartak. Terence Morris lead CSKA off the bench with team-high 18 points and 9 rebounds.

:: Draft Express: Josh Childress: I'll become a better player here in Europe - J-Chill is confident he'll return to the Association in a couple years as a better basketball player. Word to that.

:: Sportal: Beveridge issues challenge - Sydney's coach Rob Beveridge needs to get his plays to buy into his up-tempo game philosophy. It's not usually that hard to convince ball players to open up the throttle and play fast and loose, is it?

:: Aussie BBall - Hawkins out for 8 weeks - As if Gold Coast doesn't have enough problems, now Juaquin Hawkins will be out for 2 months with a foot injury. Speculation on one of Australia's largest basketball forums on if and who the Blaze will bring in to fill Hawkin's singlet (that's a uniform to those of us in the Western World).

Labels: celtics, david stern, gold coast, japan, josh childress, juaquin hawkins, lakers, marreese speights, maurice cheeks, rob beveridge, sacramento kings, seattle supersonics, sixers, sydney

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