I'm late with this, but I like ripping on BC, so it's time we acknowledge how poor their defense was against VaTech. There are a surprising number of nice dunks in here, but one is much better than the others...you'll be able to figure out which one.

Meanwhile, Europeans? Not so good at dunking.

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Odawas / "Alleluia"
Cortney Tidwell / "Eyes Are at the Billions"
Two spacey and epic tracks. Odawas' new album is Raven and the White Night, while Tidwell released Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up last year.

Dead Disco / "Automatic" (video)
Metric / "Dead Disco" (video)
Dead Disco are three moderately attractive women from Leeds who wear a lot of makeup and play their own instruments. I've been listening to this song for a few weeks now, and somehow overlooked it when I mentioned all the new stuff I found over at Good Weather For Airstrikes. Reminds me a bit of the Metric song from which the band takes its name: punky dancefloor pop-rock with female vocals.

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Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips posted something over at NPR that sounds an awful lot like Wayne Coyne. Wayne might be my favorite personality in all of rock 'n roll, and to know why you only need to watch his video graduation speech for his old high school in Oklahoma. His cadence is a little off because he's clearly reading it off a prompter, but the message is pure Wayne.

Wayne Coyne Speech Pt 1
Wayne Coyne Speech Pt 2

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Dodger pitcher Matt White is a journeyman who recently acquired some very hard, very valuable assets.

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If you hadn't heard, Scottie Pippen is considering a comeback, and the word is that it's because he needs the money. In the meantime, TrueHoop passes along a fantastic story about why Michael Jordan is rich, and Scottie Pippen is not rich.

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Crime and violence are funny and/or sad:
- A woman used a baby as a down payment on a used Dodge Intrepid. This woman had clearly never driven a Dodge Intrepid before.
- Boston College girls are not to be trifled with.
- Bank robbery has never been so sexy.
- Next time you're in Pakistan, leave your kite at home.
- But do bring your children in case you need poker collateral.
- You don't want a moose riding shotgun.

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Vijay Singh is angry, accented, and fortunately for us, mic'd up.