Posted by Teddy Panos, Sun Staff

A few enhanced thoughts while hoping random steroid testing of sports bloggers and writers isn't implemented:

At this point, Major League baseball should just inform us when a player is actually NOT using performance enhancing drugs.

The Manny Ramirez revelation sealed the deal for even this cynical scribe. There's nothing and no one left to believe in. Even those who did it cleanly are now tainted. Seriously, at this point, would you be surprised by any name associated with PED's?

We're told Kevin Garnett has really taken Glenn Davis under his wing since arriving in Boston. Apparently, the tutelage doesn't end on the court. Did you catch the slo-mo reaction after the Game 4 buzzer-beater? Big Baby seems to have taken on some of KG's colorful vocabulary, too.

At least, in that moment of ecstasy after hitting the game-winner, Davis was thoughtful enough to remember that Sunday was also Mother's Day.

You have to love Dwight Howard. This man-child has been in the league four years now, is built like the Incredible Hulk and plays the game with about as much finesse as the Incredible Hulk would. Yet Howard, who has amassed more than 15,000 minutes of combined regular season and post-season playing time, has yet to commit a single foul. Just ask him. (drip, drip, drip goes the sarcasm!)

Hey kid, you should at least wait till you're old enough to shave before looking befuddled by every single call that goes against you.

Speaking of poor officiating, the NBA hasn't improved a lick since the Ed Donaghy point fixing scandal a couple of years ago.

In pivotal Game 3 of the Denver-Dallas series, an attempt to intentionally foul in the final seconds was ignored, leading to Carmelo Anthony's game-winning 3-pointer. This, despite the fact 61-fouls (roughly 1.25 per minute) had already been whistled in the contest.

Not to sound like Tommy Heinson here, but the Celtics-Bulls officiating crew included two guys from Chicago. In Game 4 of the Magic series Paul Pierce, the one TRUE superstar on the court, was called for a phantom fifth foul on an inbounds play where he never touched the man he was guarding.

Orlando guard Rafer Alston earned a one-game suspension for dope slapping Eddie House, as did Los Angeles guard Derek Fisher for lowering his shoulder and bulldozing Houston's Luis Scola.

Kobe Bryant elbows Ron Artest just below the neck area and doesn't draw a foul, while Artest gets tossed from the game by referee Joey Crawford for getting in Bryant's face after the flagrant elbow. That's the same Joey Crawford who once threw Tim Duncan out of a game for laughing on the bench.

I don't know what speaks worse for the NBA...the fact that such questionable officiating leads people to continue suspecting more referees of fixing games, or the fact that such incompetence is still on display in games that matter most.