Jock Notes: NBA; Dirk Novitsky is not now and never has been a big game player. Way down deep he's European, which means: no guts. When the going gets tough you can count on him to miss jump shots, free throws, and fail to rebound. And the Warriors? Who knew?

NFL Draft: when you put together the combine and draft all you have is a modern day slave auction. Tell me this: if you are the top accounting student in the top accounting school in the country would you be told you had to go to work for the worst company in the country or starve? No, because it's illegal. Prediction: the draft is an anachronism and will soon end.

College football: the arrests of six or seven Penn State monsters for storming a student party and beating up a few normal size kids is only more of the same. When I was a kid the same thing happened to us at a party at CAL. A mean and nasty future NFL all pro just flattened a friend of mine. A guy approached him carrying a softball bat the future Hall of Famer grabbed it like it was a stick. We all fled. Not all football players are like that, just a very few, but those few are bad ass dudes. Really bad ass.

Crazy crowds at Mavs vs Warriors games. Why crazy? Because it ain't rich assholes in LA and other places paying a thousand dollars per seat to drink latte' at the games. They are played in Oakland, a no collar town where the only two rich guys living there drive two year old Toyotas. Those kinds of people pay twenty bucks a ticket and go to game to raise hell, and raise hell is what they do. You didn't see any big titted movie stars and washed up actors in the crowd shots, did you?

Spiderman: see it in IMAX. Reserve your seats now. You will be amazed.