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This will be brief. I have only two thoughts to share. One pertains to the widespread panic surrounding the Miami Heat. The other; Kobe Bryant’s dominance.

We interrupt the NFL’s playoff push to bring you some extremely important and urgent information. The Philadelphia 76ers want your help in choosing their new team mascot. Will you answer the call? … Because you shouldn’t. The options are underwhelming.

I can’t comment on the Eagles’ collapse to the Bears just yet. It’s too soon. Instead, I offer you an email exchange between my cousin and I from last week pertaining to the NBA Lockout.

Big stories this week. LSU vs. Alabama. The NBA lockout. Philip Rivers’ struggles. And Baseball news. Obviously, I weigh in.

We’ve already lost two weeks of regular season games and it appears, at the very least, we’ll lose two more. The NBA lockout is headed nowhere fast. My brother is here to help.

After a miserable performance in Game 4, and the most insignificant triple double you’ll ever see in Game 5, LeBron James is absorbing the wrath of the sports world. Although it may feel like the right thing to do, don’t pity “King James.”

I am not a LeBron James fan. In fact, since The Decision last summer, I can’t remember writing a single positive thing about him. Regardless, I feel compelled to stand up for LeBron. Here’s why.

Dwyane Wade and LeBron James could only watch as Dirk Nowitzki led the Dallas Mavericks on a seven minute assault that erased what would have been a 2-0 series lead for the Heat. Now the series shifts to Dallas knotted at one.

If you were to ask me in April for the worse possible NBA Finals, without hesitation I would have responded; Mavs. Heat. Sure enough, here we are. Shoot me now.

Dirk Nowitzki was unconscious in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals. For fear of seeing the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals, I plead my case to Thunder coach Scott Brooks.