This week: Rugby stans and stands, South Beach on Struggle Street, Melo’s midlife crisis, winning 20 from 21 “is really hard to do in the NBA”, packing Porter’s bags, cut price Delly, vague familiarities with Australia, captain’s picks, pre-emptive soft tissue injuries, Tony Davis, covid luck, large washed gentlemen who might like to live in Denver, hot wings, .500-adjacent teams, uninspiring Celtics, big two-and-a-halfs, Nil-waukee, the only person on the internet hating on Ben Simmons’ 42 point performance, vintage Seth Curry, the Raptors figuring it out, shouts to Mick Simmons, C is not for cookie, Dray’s diatribe, drummer jokes, Hollinger’s ludicrous MVP takes, shooters’ gyms, terrible colour clashes, Portland’s prospects, jinxing Kyrgios, reckless endangerment of a large lump of silver, pitched racism, cancelling various cricketers for klout and taping up tennis balls with Bobo Vieri. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.