• So, you’re a long-downtrodden team, who finally has some chemistry, has a coach getting players to buy into a winning attitude, a young All-Star in the post, a veteran point guard who can lead, and a good record for the first time since 1908… what do you need to do? Sign an alcoholic. The Clippers have signed Vin Baker, and I’m not seeing a lot of upside for them.

• Ray Lewis was heard at the Pro Bowl telling people that he wants to be a Charger. He apparently wants out of Baltimore in the worst way, and was trying to sell himself to a couple of Chargers players at the Pro Bowl. I think it’s very unlikely to happen, as I believe Chargers general manager AJ Smith would prefer to keep San Diego’s homicide rate down. Randall Godfrey and Donnie Edwards already make up a pretty solid inside linebacking unit. I’m not saying that Ray-Ray couldn’t improve things a little bit, but there’s no way San Diego’s going to give him major cap dollars to do so.

• A Jamaican guy won a silver medal for bobsledding, though he did it for Team Canada. John Candy is rolling over in his grave. The guy, Lascelles Brown, was born in and bobsledded for Jamaica. While training in Canada, he fell in love with a Canadian woman and married her. He asked Jamaica to move their whole training operation to Canada, and they refused. So he left, and yesterday, won a silver medal for the Canadians.

• Chad Hedrick and Shani Davis go head-to-head today in the 1500m. Hedrick holds the world record at that distance, although the world record he broke was held by Davis. Come on, Shani. Fuck. Him. Up.