Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Hernandez
Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Based on nothing statistical or scientific - just who is your favorite King of the moment? Expound in the thread. Poll My favorite King du jour is: Jon Brockman Omri Casspi Tyreke Evans Francisco Garcia Donté Greene Spencer Hawes Kevin Martin Sean May Andres Nocioni Sergio Rodriguez Kenny Thomas Jason Thompson Ime Udoka Beno Udrih Paul Westphal 26 votes | Results
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Ime Udoka knows a little bit about adjusting to a new team. He started his college career at Eastern Utah before transferring to USF. His final stop was Portland State in 2000. Then came the International Basketball League, United States Basketball League, Spanish League, French League and NBA Development League before Udoka finally washed ashore in the NBA. He played four games with the Los Angeles...
Blog-a-Bull (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
[Thanks to enemy combatant pookeyguru for today's game preview . I'm not sure yet how the 9pm CST start times will throw off my recappin' game, but it likely will somewhat. -ed.] Tonight is a battle of 2 teams at different paths in their journey. The Kings started out 1-3 before Kevin Martin was sidelined with a fractured left wrist, and subsequently had surgery, before winning the last 4 games to...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Paul Westphal has spent much of his life in the Los Angeles area, so the first-year Kings coach would know how to live the incognito celebrity existence if he had to. He'd wear sunglasses in public, and maybe a wig and oversized hat. But while his team has won four consecutive games and holds a winning record for the first time in nearly three years, the local attention hasn't reached that point just...
Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
What a great week for us. I don't think anyone could have predicted how good we've been playing, especially without Kevin Martin and Francisco Garcia . We end the week at 5-4 and in 6th place in the West. So lets take a look at what happened. The Good : 1. 3-0! > .500 BABY! Unbelievable. We come off a nice win in Utah and defend our home floor against the Warriors , Thunder and Rockets . I don't...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Kings rookie Omri Casspi's much-chronicled search for quality hummus is finally over. Casspi and his brother, Eitan, sampled the Middle Eastern delicacy at Opa! Opa!Restaurant on J Street on Wednesday and decided that it met their high standards. "I tried the hummus and the falafel, and it was like having good food from home," said Casspi before Friday's game. "The hummus was so good...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Kings rookie Omri Casspi's much-chronicled search for quality hummus is finally over. Casspi and his brother, Eitan, sampled the Middle Eastern delicacy at Opa! Opa!Restaurant on J Street on Wednesday and decided that it met their high standards. "I tried the hummus and the falafel, and it was like having good food from home," said Casspi before Friday's game. "The hummus was so good...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Kings coach Paul Westphal likes to give a little comic relief when praising his players. So after watching Kings forward Andres Nocioni do his best to harass Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant in Tuesday night's victory over the Thunder, Westphal complimented his player in a way that led to a few chuckles. "I told (Nocioni) after the game, 'That's the best job I've ever seen somebody do on somebody...
Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
More photos » by Rich Pedroncelli - AP "Wait, Exhibit G said that? He's crazy. Don't listen to bananas." (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) Browse more photos » The recent meteoric rise of the Kings to a record of 4-4 got me thinking. In lietothegirls' entertaining post , pookeyguru made a comment about how there is no reason to believe that Paul Westphal has gotten through to...
Card Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Not gonna lie, setting this up is pretty fun. The first round rages on as the top seed is revealed... 1. LOUISVILLE BEATS WEST VIRGINIA TO GO TO THE FINAL FOUR (3/6/05) After dismantling top seed Washington two days prior, it's safe to say that Louisville fans were confident heading into an Elite Eight matchup with seventh-seeded West Virginia. That confidence was shaken quickly as the Mountaineers...
Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The front office would have rated at or near the top several years ago, but the Kings seem to have lost their touch since then. Horrific contracts for the likes of Beno Udrih and Francisco Garcia unnecessarily prolonged a salary-cap hangover from the glory days, one that would have been far worse if Bonzi Wells hadn't foolishly turned down a ridiculous five-year, $36 million offer three years ago....
Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
More photos » by Steve Yeater - AP Browse more photos » What a complete game for the Kings . You knew Sacramento had the advantage on the glass and in the paint, and that Tyreke Evans had a huge size advantage on the perimeter. But the Warriors are deep with talent (Anthony Morrow and C.J. Watson are legit, and Anthony Randolph shouldn't be third-string anywhere) and the roster is filled...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
If you thought the Jazz were a little beat up, check out Sacramento. The Kings visited Utah on Saturday night without two of their best players, shooting guard Kevin Martin and guard-forward Francisco Garcia .
SlamNation (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The end of the draft got pretty ugly, with quite a few players being picked based solely on one double digit scoring or rebounding game. I mean, who is Omri Casspi, Dahntay Jones, or Luc Mbah a Moute? This is like the worst case spelling bee NBA edition. The most mysterious player however, has to be Oleksiy Pecherov. The seven footer lit up the Celtics for 24 points earlier in the week and then gathered...
Sactown Royalty (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
More photos » by Darren Abate - AP Browse more photos » Kevin Martin 's really in a pickle. The Bee reports that today Martin will decide whether to undergo surgery to repair his broken wrist (missing 6-8 weeks), sit 6-8 weeks in the hopes it will heal on its own, or slap on a soft cast and play through it, risking a full break (and a longer recovery). The "smart" move would be...
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