Happy Father’s Day

BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, step-dads and foster dads out there. If you aren’t a father (yet) it is hard to describe what a joy that this role can be…it is literally the gift that keeps on giving. With that said, let’s hit the links:

— Okay, so maybe Kevin Kuwik’s suggestion to have Archie Miller join him in the Twitterverse wasn’t such a great idea:

http://twitter.com/#!/Archie_Miller

I think Doug Hauschild needs to do an intervention here with Archie, stat.

— OHSH.com with a list of Ohio recruits getting calls from colleges. UD is mentioned with several 2013 kids:

http://www.ohiohshoops.com/2011/06/recruiting-news-6172011.html

— Not so much here in the State of Michigan, according to alleyesonuhoops.com:

http://www.alleyesonuhoops.com/june15.html

— The good news: former Flint Powers SG Javontae Hawkins, who is headed to Huntington Prep, mentions Dayton among the schools he has offers or is hearing from.

The bad news: he lists 24 different colleges!

http://www.nbebasketball.com/w3/2011-0615/javontae-hawkins-on-the-rise-and-on-the-move/

— Meanwhile in Fitchburg, MA my alma mater Notre Dame Prep continues to load up on D-1 talent:

http://blog.northstarbball.com/2011/06/14/update-on-notre-dame-prep-trio-ledo-davis–cassell.aspx

— Pat Forde of ESPN.com with his list of the top ten overachievers and underachievers in college hoops:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=6595711

— The great Joe Posnanski with his read on the Dallas Mavs beating fellow former Clevelander LeBron James and his playmates in the NBA Finals:

http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2011/06/feeling-heat.html

— The day after the Finals ended, Macy’s pulled a “Dewey beats Truman” in The Miami Herald:

http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/2011/06/13/miami-herald-runs-ad-selling-heat-championship-shirts/

— ESPN’s Sports Guy Bill Simmons has launched Grantland, a website devoted to sports and pop culture:

http://www.grantland.com/

The initial reviews of Grantland are mixed.

Deadspin doesn’t think much of it:

http://deadspin.com/5811438/elaines-was-a-dump-or-the-grantland-fallacy

Slate wonders what audience Bill Simmons is targeting:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2011/04/28/bill-simmons-internet-tendency-is-going-to-be-super-humble.aspx

However, this piece from Grantland by former Washington Post reporter Jane Leavy is pretty ****ed good and just in time for Father’s Day and the final round of the U.S Open:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6673033/one-round

— Craig Wolff at The Wall Street Journal thinks that it is time for all sports reporters to hit the highway:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304392704576375852250694930.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5

— Actor Liev Schreiber is that guy — the voice who narrates all of the great sports documentaries on HBO:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304392704576373733043381082.html

— Let’s hear it for the Whiffle Ball!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303635604576391642837417256.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_second

— “I’ll take weird habits for $1,000, Alex.”

Brony

“What do you call a grown man who likes to watch My Little Pony, Alex?”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304392704576375852250694930.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5

–Can you think of a better guy to read the audio book version of the children’s story for adults Go the F**k to Sleep than Samuel L. Jackson?