What makes sports great is it’s unpredictability. Tiger Woods was pretty much handed a Grand Slam before one event this year, and he craps his pants at the Masters (by his standards, anyway).

But sometimes, sports can be very predictable. As I write this, here are three of the top five stories on ESPN.com. No joke here; these are real.

• Nuggets ‘Melo arrested, charged with DUI
• Kansas State frosh Beasley to enter NBA draft
• Stern stands behind Sonics owner despite e-mails

Now, is anything there really a surprise? The only thing surprising in the Anthony story is if the ‘I’ that Melo was ‘U’ was not marijuana - (Hey, have you ever been a part of a 50-win team that didn’t make the playoffs. Well, have you ever been a part of a 50-win team that didn’t make the playoffs - ON WEED?)

As for Beasley, how is this a story? He’d be in the NBA now if it weren’t for that new rule the league passed a couple years ago pretty much requiring a year of college.

And, gee, David Stern is being stubborn even when he’s egregiously wrong.  Sure, those e-mails - along with pretty much every comment they’ve ever said - proved the Sonics’ new ownership was Oklahoma City bound. And they were going regardless of what the city of Seattle did or didn’t do.

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