>> here comes larry bird. >> reporter: and a man with opinions on everything from larry bird's divinitye basketball jesus. his autobiography drive, we refer to the bible in my house. >> reporter: you don't think that's at all -- to call larry bir the basketball jesus? >> no. >> reporter: he calls lae prone james' former facial hair -- >> the beard is awful. >> reporter: to the coaching ability of gene hackman in "hoosiers." >> -- decide to use him as a decoy, like, what coach would do that? >> reporter: simmons has been writing his sports guy column for espn.com. before that, he wrote it in boston. he was a pioneer on the web. one of the first web-only columnists. did you invent the internet? >> please al gore did. i was one of the first people who kind of realized hey, this is different than newspapers. how do i use this to my advantage? i had to figure out a way to write that column in a way that i could pull readers to where i was despite the fact i wasn't going in locker rooms. i started writing about all the stuff me and my friends were talking about. arguing about sports movies. t

but not so much jordan and magic and larry bird had to holophane people on their team.hing, the state seven years, another star player was never going to move to cleveland to join them. my thing is if he was 40 years old and it was fine, but he was 26. when you were 26, think of the stupid moves they you made. exactly, everyone said what the hell. when vicki was 26, she may move that she regrets to this day. >> let us move on. now let us move on to sky, you keep saying since the sharks were eliminated no one in the bay area cares about hockey i love vancouver and their 10 win wednesday. >> i will try out a number that jackie will probably cringe at but the ratings for basketball verses in the bay area alone, nine times as many people watch hockey. it was a fantastic game and you know if you sat and watched it it was terrific. >> just watch the fourth quarter that is all you need to do, the basketball game is always decided in the fourth quarter there is no reason to watch the first three. [laughter] >> a kind of like the prime time, jackie brown out dancing came back an

to, as well, i would think these transportation issues are just diffused, hard to predict, and larry bird a moat to those families that are not assigned to their choice schools. i know we had a miserable time getting into lhasa yet. we got none of our choices and had to go through that whole traumatic thing. yes, we should have rational assignment, and then be clear where those communities are being fed, and we can address the transportation issues. i also want to say that i think there are a lot of families in favor of the feeder haute, and they already thought it was a done deal. i heard that from many. the last thing i would say is that i understand that the k-8 schools are very light schools. this is as close to that model that we can get without having all that way. >> good evening. my name is david, and i am a parent of two children, both at lafayette, won his fifth going into six and one that is second going into third, and first of all, we were tremendously surprised and shocked that the feeder system was removed for this year. it was our expectation that it was going to be there,

i know larry bird must be dying looking at all these white guys get all marked up like this. wow.ext! jimmy kimmel. now that's a tattoo. that's a manly tattoo. that's classy. i love you. oopsy, that's all the time we i'm iron mike tyson with "tattoos with tyson." ♪ >> jimmy: when i was a young boy, i always dreamed that one day mike tyson was kiss me on the back, and now it's finally happened. hey, we have a fun show for you tonight. later on members of the portland trailblazers and philadelphia 76ers go head to head to head to head in a tournament of friendship that we call the teammating game. and when we come back, i'll it is down with kids to talk basketball. so stick around. blueshirt: hey america, it's summer. and just because you're on the go, doesn't mean you can't stay connected. whatever you're thinking of doing this year... ... we'll help you find the perfect device to make it better. we'll set it up, get you streaming and even show you how to use it. which means you'll spend less time fiddling with it... ... and more time using it. vo: make summer better with great pri

hey, he looks like a metro-sexual lumberjack. [ scattered cheers ] >> he looks like a prehistoric larry bird thor at a "styx" concert. >> he looks like meg ryan on steroids. check out this dude. [ laser ] haha! >> he look like a 38-year-old new born baby. [ laughter ] >> he looks like he took a bath in nair. >> he looks like the last thing you see before being executed in a medieval dungeon. >> haha! [ laughter ] he looks like an athletic said fred. [ buzzer ] >> speed round! [ laser ] >> "teenage mutant ninja turtles." [ laser ] >> jaden smith from the future. [ laser ] [ laughter ] >> really want to mow your lawn this summer. [ laser ] >> welcome to "circuit city." can i help you? [ laughter ] [ laser ] >> rupaul without the wig. [ laughter ] [ laser ] >> dane cook after five years in prison. [ cheers ] >> john boy! john boy! >> this is ploy counterpunch, tonight's topic for debate, can the boston bruins win the stanley cup? [ cheers ] what up, bert? >> they're playing great hockey against vancouver right now. >> okay. >> when it's all said and done. >> yeah. >> i'd have to say, no. gordy?

larry beil has highlights coming up in this morning's sports. i have fallen in love with making birdor ]what is that? that's a horrible crow. here are some things that i'll make as little portals. honestly, i'd love to do this for the rest of my life so i've got to take care of my heart. for me, cheerios is a good place to start. [ male announcer ] got something you'll love to keep doing? take care of your heart. you can start with cheerios. the natural whole grain oats can help lower cholesterol. brrrbb... makes you feel ageless. [ male announcer ] it's time. love your heart so you can do what you love. cheerios. [ bob ] squak. >>> 5:17 saturday morning, june 18. looking out at the bay bridge. kind of get the idea it's overcast out there. kind of a summer pattern settled in. lisa argen says it will be really summary later in, a few days from now going to get in a heating trend. >> when summer comes on tuesday. yeah. even tomorrow for father's day. the warm-up begins. but we'll see a nice afternoon today. starting out with extensive low clouds and fog. that is typical for us. as we h

bird, of course. >>> much more ahead on today in the bay, still to come, the state's political landscape changes with just days until the budget deadline. how will it impact that impasse? political analyst larry morning, there's lots to do today in the bay. my friend and colleague, scott budman, will be emcee today at the fourth annual silicon valley duck race and festival in los gatos. look at those. last june, 15,000 rubber ducks raced their quacks off to raise $60,000 for 16 local charities. scott wants to see how much more they can raise this year, get by 1 p.m., you sponsor a family or even a flock of ducks, get your chances to win $1 million. now, for the food and fun you have to be there for the slide show, go to nbcbayarea.com. >>> and why should the ducks have all the fun? maybe you feel like gliding silently along the water as the sun sets along the horizon. check with the folks of cal kayak in oakland's jack lemmon square, you can as they are holding moonlight kayaking tonight at 7 p.m. as the sunsets, the city lights add atmosphere, evenings topped off with the beautiful moon rise, quite the peaceful image. married couples take note, my wife and i we had the battle for the paddle