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Eliot Spitzer was a tireless crusader for the cause of cleaning up Wall Street corruption. He also was a sex-crazed fiend who would spend the gross per capita of the average Third World country on a blow job.

The Sixers have spent the past decade being too small and individualistic on the court, dumb-witted and stubborn in the front office, and unwilling to change with the times in both areas. All of that changed last season. They got rid of their star players. For quarters at a time, they ran the court and shared the basketball. Andre Miller looked like a poor man’s Steve Nash, and Kyle Korver made enough plays away from...

The Philadelphia 76ers lost their season opener last night to the Milwaukee Bucks, 117-108 in overtime. The Sixers seemed to have the game locked up. They were up 7 points on the Bucks with only 1:07 left in the fourth quarter. Andre Igoudala, however, would foul out of the game, leaving the Sixers weaker on their defensive end. A Michael Redd three-pointer with a little over a second remaining tied the game and sent the game to OT, where the Bucks capitalized on their momentum and sealed the victory.

The Phillies will announce today at noon that 68-year-old Pat Gillick is their new General Manager, replacing former GM Ed Wade, who was fired on Oct. 10.

It's not that we don't like watching Allen Iverson play. The guy is an absolute warrior - wants to play hurt, wants to play when the Sixers are up, wants to play when the game's close, wants to play when they're getting hammered. Time and time again, he gets knocked to the court, and you just wait for him not to get up, because he's not the burliest guard in the league, after all, but then, there he is, scraping himself off the floor and hobbling to the free throw line.

Curt Schilling has become the Larry Brown of Baseball. Moving from town to town, Curt often contradicts himself in order to look out for, well, himself. Curt made headlines again on Tuesday morning. As reported on Blinq, he called into WEEI, Boston's sports talk radio station, to criticize Philadelphia radio hosts who criticized former Phils manager and current Red Sox manager Terry Francona. "They are some of the biggest pieces of trash," Schilling said of the WIP hosts. "These guys were some of the worst people, and are some of the worst people I've ever met in my life. They have no business being in sports. They have a sports station that tries to be what 'EEI is, and they suck."

The Sixers have always had entertaining drafts, but they've been even better lately now that Larry Brown isn't around to squander the team's young talent. Last night, though, was a low-key affair for the local squad. Due to an old trade, the Sixers only had a second round pick -- the 45th pick of the evening, to be precise. The Sixers used the pick to draft Louis Williams, a 19-year-old high school star from Georgia. Many have bashed the pick, including ESPN, which didn't think that Williams would even be drafted. Williams will be a long-term project, and while he doesn't provide any immediate help for a team teetering on the contender/pretender edge, he might prosper in an environment that has helped raise another young, raw talent -- current center Samuel Dalembert. Speaking of Dalembert, he was tendered a contract offer yesterday, which is believed to be worth over 2 million dollars. Kyle Korver and Willie Green were tendered offers as well, both believed to be worth a little less than a million. The three Sixers players aren't expected to sign these offers. They are merely tendered offers that make the players restricted free agents, allowing GM Billy King the option to match any outside offers that his players receive. The Sixers may not have had a first round pick, but as long as King works out deals with his younger talent, Draft Day won't be a waste, even if Williams doesn't pan out. Photo credit: the Official Sixers Website