With 2:43 left in last night’s romp of the Pistons, Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau signaled for the Mamba. As in “The White Mamba.” As in rarely-used backup center Brian Scalabrine. And people lost. their. minds.

Later this year, the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan will pit some of the world’s finest club football teams against one another. One of the qualifiers, Brazil’s FC Santos, is trying to drum up fan interest with an ad campaign promoting their participation in the tournament. Their method…well, we’re thinking it’s a mistake.

Will Lyles isn’t an angel – by his own admission, he was wrong in the way he dealt with several high-profile high school football prospects. But is he still getting an unfairly bad rap?

Throughout the NBA Finals, Dirk Nowitzki was a clear sentimental favorite, sometimes for ugly reasons. Fortunately, Dirk himself is above that kind of thinking.

Skip Bayless and Chris Broussard discussed race in the NBA, as they are wont to do. Today, their talk centered on the lack of a great white American player.

Stephen A. Smith was on First Take again today with Skip Bayless. Was it loud and occasionally unwatchable? Of course…but not always.

We’ll admit it – we thought the Donovan McNabb-Bernard Hopkins controversy was over. Then Rush Limbaugh entered the fray…and he’s on McNabb’s side.

Donovan McNabb decided to remain silent in the face of boxer Bernard Hopkins’ bizarre criticism, but yesterday McNabb’s agent took up his client’s cause.

Nothing about this makes sense to us. 46-year-old boxer Bernard Hopkins has a title bout coming up…so why is he thinking about Donovan McNabb?

Former Nebraska cornerback Prince Amukamara went an unexpectedly-low 19th in the NFL Draft…could that really have had something to do with his ancestry?