Michael Malone out as head coach of the Denver Nuggets. Also gone: general manager Calvin Booth.
Malone went 471-327 in ten seasons as coach. There are three games left in the NBA regular season, and Denver is in fourth place in the Western Conference.
More from ESPN, which is spinning Booth’s termination as “not extending his contract” rather than a firing.
We’re a week away from April 15th, National Buy a Gun Day.
Can you feel the excitement? Because I sure can. You’ve got a week to make your BAG Day plans. (And complete your taxes, too.)
Am I buying anything this year? The answer is…probably not. And the reason for that is the best reason in the world: I spent my gun budget in Tulsa this past weekend.
Yes, it’s very nice. I will post photos when I can get to them in the queue.
If I hadn’t blown my gun budget for the next few months, there is something I am really excited about: Smith and Wesson just announced a new lever gun in their 1854 series…
…chambered in .45-70 Government.
Both Mike the Musicologist and I have been looking for guns in .45-70, and the S&W seems to be competitively priced with the newer Marlins. MSRP from S&W is $1399 for the synthetic stock model, and $1499 for the walnut one.
I don’t just say this because I am an unabashed S&W fanboy: the 1854 in .45-70 seems to me to be a genuinely exciting package. I expect it will take a month or so to trickle down the production chain to retail, but I plan to ask my local gun shop on Saturday about getting one.
We run a full service blog here. And this time, we remembered to stop and get photos on our way out of town.
Even better, the weather on Monday was actually nice, after dealing with cold, rain, and overcast from Wednesday night through Sunday night.
Interestingly (well, to me) the Billy Sims Barbecue we went to on our last trip has moved. The new location replaces a shabu-shabu place that both Mike the Musicologist and I liked. And it looked like whatever went in where the old location was has also closed.
But: they did take the statue with them. There’s a large empty plinth in front of the old location, though. I’m not sure what you can do with an empty plinth, other than put a replacement statue on it. But given there’s nothing at that location right now…