So Here's the Fort Worth Schlub Who Got Sentenced for 18 Years for Child Porn and Walking Around Naked at Work

FORT WORTH - A Texas judge has sentenced Kenneth Clyde Jackson to 18 years in prison for, among other things, walking around naked at the plastics warehouse where he worked, and possessing child pornography.
Police first encountered Jackson on July 3, 2010. He was reportedly walking around unclothed at his place of employment. Police questioned him and he said he was naked because he was hot.
Police then found marijuana in his car's glove compartment and child pornography on his work computer.
Jackson posted bail and walked free, but three weeks later he was reportedly arrested again after police say they saw him standing naked in his garage, watching children ride bicycles.

Obviously if you get caught pants down in your garage checking out the locals graduate from their training wheels and it's not the seediest thing you've done recently, you've got issues. Like when just three weeks earlier you get busted for that kiddie porn screen-saver that popped on during your nude coffee breaks. Ol' Kenny Clyde already looks like a textbook pedophile anyway, so no surprise there. The biggest insult may be the audacity of strolling around the workplace in your natural fur coat and crotch stump like you're young, virile, kickin' ass and ready to be pounced on by a busty fertile intern. WWCD enjoys Naked Thursdays just as much as the next hip, young Uptown office, but we're all under 35 and among Dallas' most beautiful, so it's all good. It's just known that when you're over 55, prancing around an innocent plastics warehouse cause it's a little toasty is just one of those things you can't do anymore, like sit Indian-style, play basketball without being sore, or go to Avicii concerts.

Unregistered Runner Bitch-Slaps Entire Fort Worth Marathon Field, Coming Back Next Year

FORT WORTH - Initial runner-up Kolin Styles was declared the winner of the 26.2-mile race when Scott Downard was disqualified because he crossed the finish line with another person's number and failed to register for the race.
Downard, a 25-year-old from Norman, Okla., crossed the finish line first more than 6 minutes faster than Styles at 2:31:40, said Heidi Swartz, the race's executive director.
He acknowledged without any prompting that the bib he was wearing belonged to a friend who couldn't make the race.
"He understood completely and said he'd come back next year," Swartz said.

I know I'm a day late here, but Scott Downard really put me in a tough spot with this. On the one hand, no one likes self-centered marathoners any less than me, constantly hogging the spotlight every weekend to boast about how they had to crabwalk to the finish line to a disinterested audience. Those smug over-achievers always bailing on their friends right before Friday night really starts to kick ass so they can wake up early and "train." Can't get any more selfish. On the other hand, I kinda like his approach. Just stroll right up, swipe some punk's number, and dominate a race that everyone else actually cared about. It's not all about ribbons and medals, kids. Sometimes you just gotta show'em what's up. Downard's the winner in my book. Serious swag.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02/26/3764539/cowtown-marathons-first-finisher.html#storylink=cpy

City of Wylie Finds a Way for Me to Finally Stick It to My Dreadful Office Staff

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WYLIE - Want to throw something at your co-workers? Wylie city employees do - but only on Wednesdays. Dozens of city workers play dodgeball at lunchtime on Wednesdays instead of hitting the fast-food window or the elliptical.
"It's really funny to see a different side of everyone," said Steven Harben, who works for the Wylie Parks and Recreation Department.

The idea was the brainchild of fellow parks employee Archie Whitt, who joked that it's a better way to get competitive with co-workers than a pickup basketball game.

"If there's someone in another department that you'd just like to hit with a ball, this is the time to do it," he said.

It's also an excuse to stay active.

"It's definitely a workout," Harben said. "Last week, I was sore for a couple of days afterward."

For months now I've been trying to think of a way to light a little fire under the Sales guys, not to mention wipe that stick eye from Beverly from Accounting's face. Look, Bev, I know you're crunchin' those numbers and can see the cash we're bringing in, but you're still not getting a raise. Maybe a nice Voit imprint will make those cheeks a little more rosy next time the boss heads your way.

By the Way - Not a good look when you're the athlete in the Parks and Rec Department, and you're tellin' us that you're sore for days after amateur dodgeball hour. Catching a line drive from that checkered-shorts, ten-year-old noodle-arm and dancing outta the way of those weak lobs by Wayne from Maintenance isn't the strongest look if you're tryin' to get that hot Marketing intern to take notice.

By the Way #2 - What's the deal with the bro just hangin' out in the stands with the ladies at the :43 mark? These days you can't afford to get caught in the knitting nest checkin' out guys' asses and gushing about those cute things your boring kids did. If you're a dude and you're in that gym at lunch on Wednesdays, you've gotta be on the floor givin' it all you've got, sweatbands and all. The sidelines are for chicks and cripples. Show a little pride, or else do yourself a favor and just go to Sonic for lunch.

By the Way #3 - Sneaky funniest part of the video is the fat guy getting nailed in the face at the :09 mark. Few moments are better than firing away on the slow-footed stocky guy who got a little aggressive and threw a little too close to the line. There's no way he's gonna be able to dodge after that throw, just takes too much out of him. The second that walrus exposes himself, everybody on the other side knows it's cruise missile time. If you play pussy rules and have to sit out for the head-shot, it's still worth it every time.

21-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Helping Yours Truly Show What It's Like to Be in My Shoes

People are constantly asking me what it's like to manage and write such a smart, influential, and hilarious news, sports, and culture medium, and I never know how to dumb down my answer enough for them to understand. Mozart, Michelangelo, Jordan, CJ Wilson... they know they're great, it's just tough for them to tell you simpletons how it's done. I've always known that I pretty much play chess while everyone else is playing checkers, but Magnus playing ten simultaneous blind games of chess while everyone else is playing chess is finally the parallel I've been searching for. Hopefully this video will help illustrate to the double-edged sword that is a beautiful mind. With unequaled brilliance and unharnessed brain power comes frequent solidarity, skepticism, and misunderstanding. It's a tough life but somebody has to do it. Checkmate, Magnus!

Apparently There's Still Some Chicks Who Have a Problem With DFW TSA Agents Sneaking a Peak

 

DALLAS - Women passengers complain that TSA agents are targeting them for extra screening.
The Transportation Security Administration has a policy to randomly select people for extra screening, but some female passengers are complaining. They believe there is nothing “random” about the way they were picked.
A Dallas woman says TSA agents repeatedly asked her to step back into a body scanning machine at DFW International Airport. “I feel like I was totally exposed,” said Ellen Terrell, who is a wife and mother. “They wanted a nice good look.”
When Ellen Terrell and her husband, Charlie, flew out of DFW Airport several months ago, Terrell says she was surprised by a question a female TSA agent asked her. “She says to me, ‘Do you play tennis?’ And I said, ‘Why?’ She said, ‘You just have such a cute figure.’”

Can you believe the entitlement mentality on broads these days? Flying isn't a right, it's a privilege. If you wanna fly in their sky, those brave, courageous TSA agents have every right to scan you up, down, and every which way to see if you've smuggled in some box cutters or if those funbags are real. National security depends on it. Only problem for this Ellen chick was that she got all dolled-up and ready for the big show, and instead of a beefy 20-something agent with a latin accent and a passport for international seduction, she got the weekend softball bull dyke who just wishes she was back in the locker room slappin' towels. Trust me, you've gotta be ready for flattery from all angles. Take the compliment and just be appreciative, cause the fat chick behind you with the bomb up her twat may be skating right through the line, but she's literally about to blow herself up for that same little attention. Plus, I watched the video, and let's just say you aren't exactly "embed" worthy, Ellen. Get over yourself, and let a beaten-down lesbian have a little fun on a tough day.

Editor's note: Sadly, the Columbian Davalos twins were not stopped at DFW, yet, and really have nothing to do with this story. Enjoy.

Comedy Central At Least Temporarily Spares Society of Colbert Report, Smug Hipsters Everywhere Lose Half of News Source



NEW YORK - Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" is off the air and it's a mystery why. An expected new episode of the show was replaced by a repeat on Wednesday. Comedy Central said Thursday's live show will be off, too. The network said it was airing the repeats "due to unforeseen circumstances," but offered no other explanation. A person close to the show, who wasn't authorized to speak publically on the matter, told The Associated Press that new episodes are expected to return soon. A publicist for Colbert declined to comment.



Whew... for over a decade, Comedy Central has been forbidden on my TV between 10:00 and 11:00pm as I worry the partial-birth humor abortions on display will leak blood through the screen and make a mess for my team of housekeepers. Just because you sit there and contort your face like a clown and dance wildly through the human range of vocal pitches doesn't make bad writing magically funny. I poorly write meaningless blog posts, clearly with absolutely no formal training in writing or comedy, yet I feel like George Carlin if I ever hear a few minutes of those two abominations. Only problem is where entitled, self-important grad students will get there news if Jon Stewart goes down next, cause if you thought they were annoying now, just think how bad it will be when they can't regurgitate some tired social justice punchline for their Occupy poster and have to think for themselves.

Just Cubes Being Cubes, This Time Putting Up 5 Large to Save a Legendary Dallas Tradition

DALLAS - The Dallas Mavericks’ owner has written a check of undisclosed size that will allow this year’s Greenville Avenue St. Patrick’s Day parade to proceed as planned.“I just thought it was the right thing to do,” Cuban said in an email. “I have had some great times at the parade and I really wanted to see it continue.” Cuban said organizers promised to allow him to promote one of his companies — Filesanywhere.com — in exchange for the donation.

This will be the second major Dallas parade in a year that Cuban has subsidized.

Last June, as the city of Dallas faced severe budget cutbacks, Cuban bankrolled the downtown parade to celebrate the Mavericks’ NBA championship.

“I have no problem paying for parades that make the city of Dallas happy,” Cuban said.

Jake Levy, the parade’s chief organizer, said Cuban has served as grand marshal of the Greenville Avenue parade in the past.

Cuban also donated an undisclosed amount to a scholarship fund administered by the Greenville Avenue Business Association, sponsors of the parade, Levy said.

Levy had said earlier this month that the parade would be canceled unless supporters could find $40,000 to help cover the cost of security and cleanup. The overall parade budget is about $100,000.

Just another day in the life of an everyman's billionaire. Buy an NBA team, win a ring, kill it on Shark Tank, and save the single greatest day that the city of Dallas has to offer. You can't just meet up with 100,000 freaks and get shit-housed on green beer near make-shift stripper polls in an Office Depot parking lot on a random Saturday morning without a little help. Sure local business were probably going to pool together $40k to cover the costs, but why the hell not sweep in and be the hero? This guy know how to party or what? Grand Marshall for life!

How Does Your School Celebrate the Greatest Basketball Victory in Years and the Highly-Anticipated Football Schedule Release?

Clockwise from top left: LB Tanner Brock, OL Ty Horn, DT DJ Yendrey, DB Devin Johnson,

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FORT WORTH - Nineteen TCU students, including two starting football players, sold illegal and prescription drugs at the Sigmi Chi house, a Hooters restaurant, a Kroger parking lot and a 7-11 near campus, among other Fort Worth sites, affidavits released Wednesday show.
One of those arrested, Katherine Ann Petrie, 20, sold marijuana to an undercover officer from a house on ritzy Bellaire Drive South with her Lexus SUV parked out front, the documents say.
Four football players were among those arrested, accused of selling marijuana to other students and football players.
The players are linebacker Tanner Brock; defensive lineman D.J. Yendry; offensive tackle Tyler Horn; and cornerback Devin Johnson, according to documents released Wednesday morning.
The documents also say that TCU football coach Gary Patterson sprung a surprise drug test on the football team on Feb. 1, National Signing Day, and that Brock later told an undercover officer that there "would be about 60 people being screwed" as a result of the test.
Brock, the team's leading tackler during the Frogs' 13-0 Rose Bowl season, was injured in 2011.
Sources told the Star-Telegram that Patterson ordered the drug test after a prize recruit told him that he would not attend TCU because of drug use by players.
TCU has not released results of any drug tests, but Johnson told an undercover officer that 82 players failed, the documents say.
The affidavits do not indicate that Patterson knew about the six-month investigation that led to the arrests early Wednesday, including three on campus.
In his statement Wednesday morning, the coach indicated that he did not.
"As I heard the news this morning, I was first shocked, then hurt, and now I am mad," Patterson said.
Fort Worth police said the investigation, which began after tips from parents and students, is ongoing and that more students could be arrested.
"All of those arrested are drug dealers," TCU Police Chief Steven McGee said at a morning news conference. Officers from Fort Worth and the TCU department worked on the investigation.
Arrest warrant affidavits released Wednesday accuse Brock, Yendry and Horn of selling hydroponic marijuana from a house in the 3400 block of Brady Avenue in Fort Worth.
"There are days people want to be a head football coach, but today is not one of those days," Patterson said in his statement.
The news casts a pall on an uplifting period in TCU athletics. The Frogs just missed playing in their third straight BCS bowl after the 2011 season, and will start play in the Big 12 this year.
On Tuesday night, hours before the arrests were announced, the basketball team upset 11th-ranked UNLV.
Patterson has led the Frogs since 2000.
Last year, TCU was lauded in a "Sports Illustrated" article as the only top 25 team in the nation in 2010 with no players on its roster with criminal records.
And, according to the article, TCU and Oklahoma were the only two schools in the top 25 that performs criminal background checks on their recruits.
Some of the students arrested Wednesday members of fraternities, but police said there was no indication that the fraternities themselves were involved.
Some of the alleged deals went down in a drug-free zone, which increases the penalty group to the next higher level, according to state laws. For example, if someone were convicted of selling drugs and it was normally a state jail felony, with a maximum punishment of up to two years in prison, the sentence could be bumped to a third-degree felony, with a punishment range between two and 10 years in prison, according to the Texas Penal Code.
Chancellor Victor Boschini Jr. said he notified students and faculty of the arrests and the university's reaction in an email Wednesday morning. The initial feedback about TCU's response was positive, he said.
One student, senior Lacey Taylor, said Wednesday that she wasn't surprised by the arrests.
"TCU is a great school, but every morning we get emails about alcohol consumption, assaults," she said. "A lot of the kids here come from wealthy backgrounds and they get bored.
"Now, that they made some of these arrests in the dorms, that is surprising. The RA's (resident assistants) are pretty good about keeping that stuff out."
The drugs being sold, including in hand-to-hand transactions to undercover officers, included marijuana, cocaine, acid, ecstasy and prescription drugs, McGee said.
Also arrested were Austin Williams Carpenter, Bud Pollard Dillard, Cynthia Jaqueline Zambrano, Earl Patrick Burke, Eduardo Hernandez, Hunter Wallace McLaughlin, Jonathan Blake Jones, Matthew Iarossi Davis, Michael Gragg King, Peter Signavong, Richard Clay Putney, Scott Lee Anderson, Tayler Davis Cowdin and William Davis Jennings.

I hate copying so much of an article to a post, but in this case reading the whole thing is worth it. Tough day for the Frogs indeed, especially for me, who spent hours yesterday pounded out a Pulitzer-deserving look into the 2012 schedule, which is now a little irrelevant. Hell, even the Frogs huge win over #11 UNLV the very night before was deserving of it's own space for some credit. An arrest of this magnitude will make TCU a punchline for years to come, no doubt about it. When it involves athletes, this thing may continue to get worse, especially with the news of the drug test failures, which may be a reason why schools don't randomly drug test ENTIRE teams. There are some things you just don't want to know, and don't want anyone else to know. And here we were trying to get past this whole suicide dilemma.

The Star-Telegram's Stefan Stevenson has been all over the story today, revealing such nuggets as these...
- Source: TCU's Gary Patterson ordered pop drug test of entire team recently after being told by recruit of drug use.
- In affidavit Tanner Brock told under cover cop that team was drug tested and "about 60 people (players) being screwed."
- Affidavit: Brock told undercover officer that he used to buy pills (such as xanax, hydrocodone) from 2 players who have since graduated.
- Ty Horn is quoted in affidavit telling under cover cop that "only 20 people (players) [on roster] would pass the [drug] test."

- Affidavit: When undercover officer asked Devin Johnson about the "piss test," he responded "What can they do, 82 people failed it."
- Updated from 2/16/12 - 5 TCU players tested positive for marijuana after Feb.1 test, source says; 11 others had trace amounts.


Updated Conclusion - In the end, it's a private, Christian school, and if TCU wants to expel anyone who uses or deals drugs after having made it clear that expulsion is the appropriate, legal penalty, then so be it. As for the possible slew of suspensions for other players who may have tested positive, Patterson may have poked the hornet's nest a bit much here. Still, at worst, some players will have to sit out one of the first few games through team disciplinary action. Their first month includes Grambling, Kansas, Virginia, and SMU. If they're lucky, they can get it out of the way by the Virginia game. While they will lose four guys, they will at least have had time to adapt for the 2012 season. As for the school itself, well, every school out there has students who use and sell drugs, but TCU took the immediate action to expel such kids, immediately, on television. These actions should only encourage parents to send their kids to a pro-active institution over ones who ignore similar incidents and sweep them under the rug.

V-Day Alert for All Poor, Lonely, Single Males: Today Is Also Kate Upton Day, So Plan Accordingly

Good news for all you chumps whose love recipient this Valentines Day will be only a paper towel and who won't be in the market for extravagant, instantly-regrettable gifts. Just make one quick stop on your way home from work and pick up the new SI Swimsuit issue, break out the big bottle of lube, yea, the one with the pump on it, and just work it over like it's your second job. Trust me, at the end of the night, without having to deal with some whiny, needy broad, you'll be the big winner.

V-Day Alert for All Dallas-Area Males: The Original Pink Mary Kay Home is On the Market and Ripe for Gift-Giving

DALLAS - Let me first say that I'm writing this assuming that most readers share my mid-six-fig, media mogul salary and are routinely on the lookout for secondary homes for wives/girlfriends/mistresses. Now, are you looking to shut the Mrs. up about those extra-marital affairs that she keeps nagging you about? Trying to think of that one gift to win over that certain hot you've had your eye on but who keeps saying, "get the hell away from me," without resorting to the Chloroform towel? Look no further this Valentines Day than this Mary Kay Ash-designed Preston Hollow home for a $3.3 mil bargain. Forget that House condo boondoggle for your personal getaway. Just pick up this cozy little 11,800 sq. ft. nest, and you may not have to deal with your Valentine for the rest of the year. Turn that primary residence into the bachelor pad you've always wanted, and it's truly a V-day where everyone wins.

Rangers Finally Find Missing Ingredient to the '91 Season: Pumping the Oil Can Full of Cocaine

BOSTON – Former Red Sox pitcher Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd admitted on Wednesday that two-thirds of the time he was on the mound, he was under the influence of cocaine.
“Oh yeah, at every ballpark. There wasn’t one ballpark that I probably didn’t stay up all night, until four or five in the morning, and the same thing is still in your system,” Boyd told WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Jonny Miller in Fort Myers, Fla. “It’s not like you have time to go do it while in the game, which I had done that.
“Some of the best games I’ve ever, ever pitched in the major leagues I stayed up all night; I’d say two-thirds of them,” said Boyd,  who spent eight of his 10 major league seasons with the Red Sox. “If I had went to bed, I would have won 150 ballgames in the time span that I played. I feel like my career was cut short for a lot of reasons, but I wasn’t doing anything that hundreds of ball players weren’t doing at the time; because that’s how I learned it.”
Boyd went 78-77 with 799 career strikeouts with the Red Sox, Expos and Rangers.

Some players need accountability coaches to prevent their lives from unraveling in a self-destructive binge of sex, drugs, and booze. Others need accountability coaches to make sure there's a briefcase full of nose candy in the right locker before and after every game to give'em that extra good ol' days boost. In their short history, the Rangers have failed at both. They can't keep Josh's libido or lips dry, and now we find out they let poor Oil Can pitch in 105 degree August heat without skiing down the Colombian powder? This type of failure starts at the top, and a team run by an early '90's George W should be ashamed of itself. The guy spend eight years in Boston blowing strikes by batters like C-dust off the heel of his glove. Straight dominant. Rangers pick him up mid-way through a competitive summer stretch, and Oil Can goes 1-7 with a 6.68 ERA. Rangers still finished 85-77, but finished 3rd. You sure can't pin it all on Bobby V. I feel like if you sign Oil Can, you should get the whole can, not just the water that sits at the bottom. You should get the dirty, processed gunk floating at the top too. That's where the real magic is, and obviously it didn't make it to A-town. Just makes that last missed strike in STL that much tougher.

Is It Possible That Super Bowl XLVI Might Have Been the Greatest Ever?

My #1 girl showing the entire world what she's gonna wear and what will be left on the floor of my new House condo bedroom on our Valentine's Day date? Bring it, Lima.

The great Avicii dominating the big leagues Super Bowl-style with Bud Light Platinum right after my first two props hit? Looks like I just found my new beer.

Giants +3? Nailed it.
Giants First Half +1? Dirty Push... F it.
First Half Under 27? Nailed it.
Giants Second Half Moneyline +135? Crushed it.
4-1 on prop bets? Yes sir.
Conveniently forgetting the few wagers that lost? Who cares when you're up large on the night and are drunk on winnings and Crown Royal?

No Cowboys fan wanted to see that bumbling mouth-breather hoist the Lombardi any less than me, but with the G-men crushing it week after week, you can't just jump off the money train now. Seeing those pieces of shit celebrate is a lot more tolerable when you're fist pumping the night away a winner. Super Bowl 46 Forever! Que Levels, live edition from the January Palladium show!

With the Upcoming Foreclosure on Victory Park's House, How Many Units Should I Buy on the Cheap?

DALLAS - Victory Park’s House condo tower was marketed as a landmark in urban living. The 28-story residential tower styled by French designer Philippe Starck tried to lure residents with its modern architecture and location on the edge of downtown Dallas. But consumers didn’t buy it.
Only about 20 of the high-rise’s residential units have sold since the project was built in 2007. And now a German bank is trying to foreclose Tuesday on the remaining 112 condos in the building at Continental Avenue and Houston Street, legal filings show.
The House, developed by London-based Yoo Ltd. and Dallas’ Hillwood, targeted young, affluent residents who wanted to live in the new Victory Park neighborhood.
Units in the tower originally sold for just less than $400,000 for a small one-bedroom condo to almost $2 million for a penthouse.

Since I only know how to write snarky blog posts and place basketball wagers, both quite poorly, I won't pretend to know anything about this foreclosure stuff. I do, however, fit squarely into their original target demo of young, affluent, handsome, and well-endowed, or whatever they said. Plus, I have been looking into getting a another place for when the Mrs. busts my balls about said gambling decisions, and I'm gonna need somewhere to go when I drag home some young slut-piece from the next time Avicii comes to town. Since they've only sold a measly 20 out of 132 units, I figure that penthouse has come way down from its original $2 mil right into my range, or I could even buy up a few empties all in a row and take those thin, art-deco walls to Demolition Town. Hell, with their desperation and my star power and appeal, they'd probably throw in an extra unit just for being me. Could even throw some free web advertising their way if I need to play a little hardball. Just don't give me anything on that west side. Views of Grand Prairie and the west sun are for renters and maintenance personnel. House and WWCD... going down in flames together. Well, we can re-work the slogan. Either way, let's get it done!

ALERT! ALERT! Kate Upton Nails the Cover of the 2012 SI Swimsuit Issue

Let's all put to rest the tired argument that whenever you want, at the click of a button, you can see hot, buxom blondes do filthy things that God says only married people should do. So the Sports Illustrated swimsuit series isn't even solid material for a 14 year-old who still uses dial-up. I get it. Something ought to be left for the imagination though, and Kate the Great leaves me imagining everyday. You could say she's a thinking man's broad. Not everyone gets her, but I do. I get you Kate. Screw those guys. We should really hang out. Mrs. Benefactor will probably be away. She's away a lot, and she just doesn't get me like you do. In two weeks when the issue comes out, let's celebrate. You can come down to Dallas and show me your Beach Bunny collection, and we can play doctor, have water hose fights, jump rope, and I can even make us some strawberry daiquiri's! You just have to drink this one right here I made just for you because you're so special.... Yes, there you go.... Go to sleep my Kate, don't fight it....

OKC Gunning for Mavs #1 Rival, Spurs Officially Warned

I wouldn't dare say that the Spurs aren't still the Mavs' most hated rival these days, especially after the OT classic Sunday night. While division-foes Houston and New Orleans have shown flashes of formidibility over the last decade and Memphis has improved recently, none have had the staying power and the bright future of the non-division opponent that's just 200 miles away. (Should go without being said that you can't have a rival outside your conference, or the Lakers, who you just swept and is everyone's rival.)

Yes, the Spurs smoked the Mavs earlier this year and gave them a tough fight in round two. Yes, they won three of four last year on their way to the #1 seed. Yes, they knocked the Mavs out of the first round the year before. No, you can't ignore their epic history before then. However, Duncan turns 36 in April. Ginobili can't stay healthy. Parker has been rumored to be traded for a while now. Pop is a great coach, and they get significant contributions from role players, but can greatness last without their big three intact? The five Spurs that were playing the fourth quarter and overtime Sunday against the Mavericks were Matt Bonner, Daniel Green, Gary Neal, Tiago Splitter, and James Anderson. That do anything for you?

On the Mavs side, Jet and Kidd probably won't be back next year. Soon enough we will have a roster of guys who, other than Dirk, won't have been here more than three years and may not care about the Spurs, but will remember battling OKC in a gutsy Conference Finals, getting punked by Durant at the buzzer and stuffed by Ibaka this year, and growing tired of looking up at the standings to a talented Thunder team for years to come. Soon enough, fans just may turn their vitriol towards an all-new, yet all-too-familiar annoying one-horse-town crowd.

All we can say now is, watch out for Monday, March 5th, when the Mavs go up I-35 for the last regular season matchup against the Thunder, because it may not be the last time they face each other this season, and may very well continue to get the gears in motion for a major rivalry shakeup.