Up all night, the sports news on TV was truly shocking

	Mike Krzyzewski made an interesting decision during the Blue Devils' loss at Florida State last week. Grant Halverson/Getty Images

Last week I suffered from horrible insomnia. Between bouts of anxiety and anger, I was swept up in the strangest few days in sports in a while. Maybe it was the lack of sleep. Maybe it was the painkillers my dentist gave me after pulling my wisdom teeth. Whatever the reason, much of what I saw on television last week seemed like a bizarre dream.

I drifted off to sleep for a few minutes on my couch, and when I opened my eyes, the ESPNEWS bottom line informed me that Duke had lost to Florida State. That was weird. Weirder still was Coach K pulling his starters off the court and getting them safely to the locker room after Seminoles fans prematurely stormed the court. Nice of Coach K to leave five bench warmers in to fend for themselves. Poor guys. Talk about your pressure free throws. "OK, all I have to do is drain these two gimmes and then act like Mel Gibson in Braveheart to get back to the locker room!"

The Clippers lost to the Jazz last weekend and the Lakers beat the Pistons. Which do you think is more odd? I think the Lakers get the nod on this one since Kwame Brown got 12 boards against the Pistons' front line. How that happened, I have no idea. I didn't think Brown was capable of getting 12 boards in a lumber yard. The Clippers were done in by a three-pointer with a minute left by ... Mehmet Okur! Nothing like a 6-foot-11 guy stepping back behind the arc and hoisting a shot that looks like a watermelon being shot out of a catapult. I may be off base here, but Mehmet the mouth breather doesn't look like a guy you want running the floor and chewing gum at the same time. If his shot didn't go in, he could have choked while he choked.

I caught a bit of the World Baseball Classic at 3 a.m. I don't want to sound negative, but Ichiro Suzuki and a bunch of guys who are 5-foot-8, 140 pounds doesn't strike me as classic. Classic to me is the fact that Taiwan sold the naming rights OF ITS COUNTRY to China. In the WBC, as well as in the Olympics, they are referred to as China-Tai Pei. The team is forbidden to fly the Taiwanese flag in international play, so it had to create a hybrid/interim flag. It looks like a surrender flag with a Care Bear on it. Adorable, but not quite intimidating.

Japan crushed China-Tai Pei, which may not register as news on many people's radar, but it certainly registered on mine. Isn't Taiwan the country that takes the American children behind the woodshed for a beating every year in the Little League World Series? Where are all these young baseball gods going after they hit puberty? Apparently, not to batting practice. Where is Danny Almonte when you need him?