The cost to Pinoy you has reached a new low. For one flat monthly rate ($60), you can call your secret mistress for less than those expensive phone cards. Who needs them?

In his undrafted rookie debut, Anthony Morrow stole the show. The rookie became the teacher and taught the class how to ball. The 6-5 Guard from Georgia Tech only made the Warrior’s roster via their Summer League.

I knew I put in the work. I just wanted to refine my entire game in the summer league, and it’s working out pretty well for me right now.

Why is Spencer Hawes the man of the night? Mostly because someone left this guy on their Fantasy Basketball bench while he went spectacular.

This is the line for the number one pick of the 2008 NBA Draft Derrick Rose’s debut game against the Milwaukee Bucks. This highly anticipated rookie debut could be the start of a long history of basketball excellence that was once anchored by Michael Jordan. Could Rose be the answer Chicago have waited for since Jordan left? Ask Chicago native Derrick “the baller”:

“Words can’t describe what I felt,” he said. “I was worried about tripping.”

There is no lack of confidence either. Wearing jersey number one, Rose started the game at point guard and managed respectable numbers.

“It’s way more intense,” Rose said. “I’m playing in an NBA game in my hometown. I don’t know if it can get any better.”

Despite victory against the Bucks, Rose though he could have done better.

“He’s beating himself up over the four turnovers,” said coach new Bulls’ head coach Vinny Del Negro.

Bulls win 108 to 95 at home against the Bucks.

"You have to realize how frustrating it is to watch your guard dribble away 21 seconds of the 24 second clock, never giving the ball up, then taking an off balance jump shot with 3 seconds remaining, and then your team turns around and commits a silly foul when the other team is in the bonus to send Pierce to the line."
   - Mike Fratello aka The Czar, 2008.10.28 (Cavs vs Celtics)

"There, more than 1,000 homes stand vacant and decaying in a neighborhood that once thrived with families living the American dream of home ownership."

Cleveland city leaders have been dealing with the subprime mortgage fallout for several years and can enumerate the ways it has cost their city:

• Lost property tax revenues
• Foreclosures are straining Cleveland’s police and fire budgets, too, as drug dealers and addicts gravitate to abandoned homes
• In 2007 and 2008 the City of Cleveland will have spent $12 million demolishing foreclosed and abandoned homes.
• The number of homeless students in Cleveland’s public schools has increased by 40% over the last year

"When the Federal Reserve didn’t intervene to stop what the city saw as predatory lending practices, the City Council passed an ordinance to ban predatory loans. The Ohio State Legislature rendered it null and void by passing its own law prohibiting cities from regulating lenders: "The state solely shall regulate the business of originating, granting, servicing, and collecting loans and other forms of credit in the state and the manner in which any such business is conducted, and this regulation shall be in lieu of all other regulation of such activities by any municipal corporation or other political subdivision."

"Cuyahoga County treasurer Jim Rokakis has been following the crisis for close to a decade and trying to clean up the mess. He said the loans on offer weren’t like anything that borrowers had ever encountered before."

Watch the video

JIM ROKAKIS: Back in the old days when there was no sheriff in town, people would rob the banks. Well, here we are in modern day era. And there’s no sheriff in town. The banks were robbing the people.

Bill Moyers Journal . Mortgage Meltdown | PBS

In a preseason game, rookie phenom Derrick Rose smacked the Mavericks up 30pts.

Is there no pride for the Mavericks?

This is West Coast Swing. See how the dance just fits the music.

BTW: this competition is a Jack & Jill, which means the couples are randomly put together right before they start dancing. There is no prep at all. The whole thing happens in real time.

Did Ferrari break the rule? See for yourself

Ferarri team order

Suppressing the vote has long been a cornerstone of the GOP’s electoral strategy. Shortly before the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Paul Weyrich — a principal architect of today’s Republican Party — scolded evangelicals who believed in democracy. “Many of our Christians have what I call the ‘goo goo’ syndrome — good government,” said Weyrich, who co-founded Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell. “They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Block the Vote : Rolling Stone

From the Moyer article:

All of this distracts from several important points. ACORN has registered 1.3 million voters, and maintains that in virtually every instance they are the ones who have reported the incidents of fraud.

Bill Moyer: A Mighty Hoax From ACORN Grows

“The concept was to disrupt lines of communication. That’s a fancy way of saying, ‘make it so the phones didn’t work,’ ” Raymond said recently. “No calls going out. No calls going in.”

“Even if that meant suppressing the votes. So if that means they were trying to steal the election, yes, then they were trying to steal the election.”

How to rig an election from a former Republican operative.