One more good article for folks interested in the World 'Ships

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Basketball...65320-sun.html

Also, this little nugget

M.I.A.
The small African nation of Senegal might have had a good basketball team if Pape Sow (Toronto Raptors), DeSagana Diop (Dallas Mavericks), Boniface N'Dong (Los Angeles Clippers), Saer Sene (Seattle SuperSonics) and Cheick Samb (Detroit Pistons) decided to play in Japan. Each chose not to play for various reasons, mostly because they didn't want to get dunked on by Uncle Sam.

In all fairness, Pape Sow is injured.

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Nov 13 LW Milan Lucic had an active night. He scored his first goal in eight games since his Oct. 25 hat trick and also pounded Michael Komisarek in a third-period fight. Lucic cut his hand in a fight with Michael Komisarek. "I'll be fine," he said. "(X-rays are) negative, but there's so many broken bones in there from before you can't really tell."