Sports fans can be like rock jerks too.

This(the title) is a link into the world of oddly literate sports fans. The blog represents a campaign to free the great Darko Milicic (often called the human victory cigar) from the clutches of the Detroit Piston Bench.

Darko is a 19/20 year old kid from Serbia drafted by Detroit in 2003. He makes about 4 million a year, but plays at most only a couple minutes in a game. He will either be the greatest ball player of all time, or a complete bust. Most people believe he will prove himself to be the latter: He doesn't play except for the final minutes of a Detroit beat down, because he pretty much sucks.

The jokes found in this site may be unintelligible for the non-NBA following nerd. Yet I believe it may surprise some of my readers to find this level of arty criticism on a sports page. The high snobbery of criticism extends far beyond music and art my friends. Enter Free Darko and experience a new kind of nerdmanship.

(I would skip the Mark Clayton article, he is just a retired NFL receiver and writes poorly.)