Friday 04/11 A.M. Quickie:NBA West, Bill Self, Masters, Draft, More

Lots to cover in today's Sporting News column:

• The state of the NBA West: Nuggets vs. Warriors...
• If Bill Self wants to be at Kansas, I'm fine with that...
• Thursday is when the freaks take over the Masters...
• Wow, what happened to the Orioles?
• Wow, what happened to the Giants?
• Who's the leverage: Jake Long or Vernon Gholston?
• Joe Paterno won't be coaching in 2009 (I think)
• How can you not be excited for Florida's Spring Game on ESPN tomorrow?

By the way, you know that "Re-Play the 1986 Season" baseball fantasy league I'm in through Strat-O-Matic and Sporting News?

You can still get in on it too, in your own free league. If you're of a certain age, it's pretty awesome; if you're younger than a certain age, you'll be kind of freaked to manage players from before you had any memory of sports (or were even born). Here's the link.

More later.

-- D.S.