This is how a local Friday night newscast ended in Cleveland. After the sportscaster blows a gasket, check out the guy dancing in the background.

Friday night LeBron James moved a chapter closer to basketball immortality with a game-winning three-pointer that rocked Cleveland, shocked Orlando and evened the series at 1-1. With one second remaining on the NBA Game 2 Eastern Conference Finals timepiece, James waged hand-to-hand combat versus the Turkish Michael Jordan, Hedo Turkoglu, and managed to briefly get free for a three-pointer at the top of the circle. With Turkoglu's outstretched hands in his face, James received Mo Williams pass and launched his perfect parabola to stake a claim to be the rightful heir to Michael Jordan.    more »

This is from Lucinda Williams' 2008 release, "Little Honey", which is coincidentally Sheridan's Album of the Year for 2008. Lucinda closes the album with a great cover of AC/DC's rock anthem "It's A Long Way To The Top" that I now immediately associate with Jack Black's "School of Rock" and not Bon Scott and Angus Young. Hollywood is tricky like that.

Did you know Lucinda Williams' father, the poet Miller Williams, delivered the Inaugural Poem at Bill Clinton's second inauguration in 1997?

"Real Love" by Lucinda Williams

LeBron James is the baddest dude on the planet, but even 49 points couldn't carry the Cavs to a win versus the Orlando Magic in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. LeBron was great, but the rest of the team appeared to be playing under the influence of a food coma.   more »

President Obama versus former Vice President Dick Cheney is starting to rival The Thrilla in Manilla. Each man gave speeches today detailing what he views as the future of our national security, but only one of the two men is President of the United States.   more »

At the Washington Press Correspondents' Dinner, comedian Wanda Sykes offered that Rush Limbaugh should experience kidney failure and die. I'm not so sure I want to go so far as to have people die of organ failure, but I do understand Ms. Sykes's sentiments. How about constructing a large man-made island (Guantanamo?) where people who offend the Sheridan sensibilities would be sent for reprogramming or a daily dose of Sheridan? My girlfriend has volunteered for a daily dose of Sheridan, but why should others be excluded from my bon mots?    more »

Superman will meet kryptonite in human form and his name is LeBron James. The Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard is an immense talent blessed with nearly unparalleled physical gifts, but LeBron James is a once in a lifetime basketball player who is seeking to write the first chapter in the LeBron James legacy of championship basketball.   more »

In an old school NBA playoff donnybrook, the Nuggets take the series, but this is the sanitized NBA of 2009 where David Stern has eradicated the entrepreneurial services of squeegee men and made the NBA less physical than a water polo match between Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia.   more »

Manny Ramirez receiving a 50-game suspension from Major League Baseball for violating Major League Baseball's Performance Enhancing Drug policy is pausing me to rethink my religious views and the existence of god. Is Ramirez's suspension clear, undeniable proof that a higher power exists or perhaps it's a perfect example of the karma carousel of what goes around - comes around.   more »

Mexicans claim the swine flu was brought to their nation by a Canadian tourist. Dirty, Dirty Canada! As we all know, Mexico is a pristine country - I buy all of my bottled water and drugs from Mexico.   more »

The Rangers disagree with the suspension, but Tortorella gunned the water bottle into the crowd before he was doused in beer. The Don Johnson stubble wearing clown, Tortorella, instigated the incident with the fan. If Tortorella can't handle a heckler, he needs to get into a new line of work. The last time I looked, NBA coaches Phil Jackson and Greg Poppovich don't hurl water bottles and basketballs at hecklers behind the bench. (I'm sure Jackson and Pops have never been heckled.) As much as the NHL is attempting to enter the 21st century, it is this type of thuggish behavior that makes it the ugly red-headed stepchild of North American sports.    more »

At the end of Wednesday night's 2-1 win in Game 4, Avery took two moronic penalties that jeopardized the Rangers one goal margin. Tortorella's head looked as if it was going to slowly catch on fire from the smoke pouring out of his ears. Putting Ovechkin and company on the power play is analogous to putting Mike Tyson in a room with beauty pageant contestants - bad things are bound to happen.   more »

This is a perfect music video. If naked people with big pixielated blobs on their private parts make you squeamish, don't hit the play buttom.

Tonight the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers will meet again at Madison Square Garden, with the Rangers holding a 2-1 lead, in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series. The Capitals will attempt to even the series behind the hot goaltending of twenty-year-old Simon Varlamov. If Varlamov can withstand the tactics of New York's agitator extraordinaire and anger management graduate, Sean Avery, the Capitals have a shot tonight.   more »

If you live in Boston, your day of sports viewing may have started with the running of the 113th Boston Marathon, I decided to take a pass on the event. Don't we all know the drill by now - a man and a woman from the continent of Africa wins their respective race and Americans bemoan the lack of world class marathoners in the good ole U.S.A.   more »

It doesn't get much better than this. Temperatures are starting to occasionally reach 60, unless you live in Colorado where the threat of 43 inches of spring snow is not diminishing, the NBA and NHL playoffs are under way and major league baseball has returned. As a sports fan, it's hard to focus on what is important when there are so many viewing options. Was Saturday's spring football game at Alabama worth my time? No, but I did drop in for a visit to see if former Duke point guard Greg Paulus was going to take any snaps under center for the Crimson Tide.   more »

As I type, the Yankees are getting pounded by the Cleveland Indians on the inaugural Opening Day of the new Yankee Stadium (Final Score: Tribe 10 Yankees 2). Adhering to tradition, the Yankees are hosting their Opening Day/Open House for the new Yankee Stadium in god's natural light. Unlike the nouveau Mets in Queens, the Yankees did not break with tradition and schedule Opening Day for a 7:05 pm start. It doesn't matter what city you live in, or the type of stadium you play in, the Opening Day game should always be played in the afternoon.    more »

In an attempt to understand why an alleged institution of higher learning would hire a basketball coach, who had been the focal point of a successful multi-million dollar sexual harassment lawsuit against the Madison Square Garden Corporation, Sheridan introduces you to Florida International University and its new head basketball coach Isiah Thomas.   more »

Let me put this out there - right away - I do not consider myself a golf fan. When people start to bloviate on the regal majesty of golf, my eyes glaze over and I start thinking about Chris Paul on the break or Tim Lincecum throwing insane heat. Does anyone get amped up watching Angel Cabrera grip it and rip it?   more »

As Italy is experiencing the aftermath of its worst earthquake since 1980, Italians are wondering why modern buildings toppled as easily as buildings built 800 years earlier. Questions have been raised regarding the construction standards used in Italy and adherence to anti-seismic building codes.   more »