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Before getting to the Week 11 picks, let's take a moment to honor the incompetence of the NHL commissioner.

All that and more in this week's Bake Shop mailbag!

Cousin Sal joins Simmons to guess the Week 11 NFL lines. Then Bill's 7-year-old daughter offers her brief analysis of the NHL lockout. To listen to this podcast, you can download it on iTunes here or go to the ESPN.com PodCenter here. Previou...

Attempting to understand the big, fat mess that is the NHL.

For Parts 1 and 2, click here and here. We're less than a week away from the opening day of the 2012-13 NHL season, which can only mean one thing — the players are locked out. It's time to take a closer look at what the NHL lockout is all a...

For Part 1, click here. We're less than two weeks away from the opening day of the 2012-13 NHL season, which can only mean one thing — the players are locked out. It's time to take a closer look at what the NHL lockout is all about and when...

We're less than two weeks away from the opening day of the 2012-13 NHL season, which can only mean one thing — the players are locked out. For the third time in 18 months (yes, we have a lockout hat trick), a major sport's team owners have shut...

Last August, I watched Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra hoist a giant jug of coconut wine in his uncle's backyard in Los Banos, Philippines, and tell his family that next year, he hoped to bring back an NBA championship trophy. It was the closest Spoe...

Let's imagine, for a moment, that we're back in the middle of the lockout-shortened, hyper-accelerated NBA regular season. It's a Wednesday night and there are 13 games on the schedule. As a fan, it's hard not to feel excited — Memphis is playi...

If the Twittersphere has taught us one thing, it's that athletes can be completely absurd individuals. The NBA lockout was a prime opportunity to observe how millionaires spend their non-basketball time, and while every day of these NBA playoffs is t...

Hey, remember the shortened NBA regular season? Now that the playoffs have started, it feels like the regular season only existed to serve as a talking point for diagnosing Derrick Rose's torn ACL. The 66-game season was actually a blessing for d...

Are you ready for the future? Last week, BusinessWeek reported that when NBA owners meet on April 12 for the first time since the lockout, they might get into a conversation about the feasibility of putting corporate logos on jerseys, a la European s...

What happens when you combine the NBA's lockout-shortened season with some unforeseen scheduling quirks? You get 28 Days Later at Staples Center. Here's how I explained it to my wife yesterday morning: Me: "Crazy stretch at the Staples coming up."...

During the NBA lockout, the narrative unspooled by the vipers on the ownership side was that the league was in danger of being cleaved into two types of franchises. A small number were big-market teams in glittering, spired metropolises that collecte...

In the conclusion of his review of the NBA season, the Sports Guy wraps up his self-Q&A session.

In his continuing review of the NBA season, the Sports Guy conducts a Q&A session — with himself.