SEAWEED FOR THE SAC KINGS: Despite the season-ending injury to superstar Chris Webber, the Sacramento Kings beat the Dallas Mavericks 99-83 on Sunday to even their Western Conference semi-final series at 2-2. According to ESPN.com's account of the game, the Kings have one thing to thank for their victory: a "soothing seaweed bath" that was prepared for guard Doug Christie by his wife, Jackie, after the Kings lost Game 3 on Saturday. The bath inspired Christie to put up 13 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and supposedly encouraged his teammates to improve their play.
This would be bad enough even if we didn't already know about Mr. and Mrs. Christie's, shall we say, interesting relationship. You'd think Christie would've learned by now not to talk to reporters about his open submissiveness to his wife, after getting burned by the New York Times this time last year- and no, that story was not written by Jayson Blair.
ANOTHER REASON TO MAKE FUN OF DOUG: The notorious neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel is on trial in Toronto for the Canadian equivelant of racketeering, and he wept in court yesterday, claiming that he "owes [his] life to Adolf Hitler." Zundel's lawyer was quoted as saying "there's not one iota of evidence from a witness, but all hearsay. I don't think the certificate is reasonable and I don't think Mr. Zundel is a threat to the security of Canada."
The lawyer's name? You guessed it, Doug Christie. And while the NBA Christie once played for Toronto, I can't imagine Zundel would want to have anything to do with the biracial basketball star.