Seven Without S

After tonight's new Babylon 5 episode, Darin watched Game 1 of the NBA Finals. It was a squeaker--went into overtime. And he couldn't take it. He kept walking around, saying, "Four points, four points."

(I was--yes, I admit it--watching Part 2 of The Thorn Birds in the other room.)

The Bulls lost at the very end, but it was a road game and only Game 1, right?

Darin: not happy. And this is not a guy involved with sports.

I noticed that the coverage by NBC is way slanted toward the Bulls. Darin says that's because this is Michael and Phil Jackson's last year, so everyone's concentrating on them. I said, Utah's kicking their butt (the Jazz were up by 6 or 10 points or something), you'd think someone in the control booth would notice that.

Mike, who came over to watch Babylon 5 and left when the game started, said that there are 7 professional sports teams whose names do not end in "s." We came up with 6:

1. Red Sox
2. White Sox
3. Jazz
4. Heat
5. Magic
6. Avalanche

I suggested Manchester United as number seven. But no--has to be baseball, Am. football, basketball, or hockey. (I'm out on hockey. The Ava-who?)

In the original draft of this entry I asked readers to tell me the seventh, and almost immediately Nevin wrote in with

7. The Tampa Bay Lightning

who evidently are a hockey team.

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