Everything you need in 7 Minutes.

Watching Team USA slaughter Mexico is entertaining, what's even more entertaining though is listening to Bill Walton. This guy should be a baseball announcer. He is nothing but filler. Since they don't have to actually talk about the game that's happening because America is up by 30, Bill is free to wax and wane about just about anything he wants.

Some subjects he has touched on, just in the last seven minutes of the fourth quarter alone:

-- The Robber Baron Era
-- The Mexican Revolution
-- The fact that Mexico is the 12th largest economy in the world
-- "the lightning flash across the volcano" (no idea)
-- The limitations and frailty"ness" of human nature

If the US government wants to takesteps towards solving the poor education that plagues our inner-cities, all they have to do is put tapes of Walton in the VCR and let the kids take in all the wisdom Bill has to share. They could save money as well by canceling history classes, philosophy, economics, and sociology classes and subbing Bill's in-game sermons in their place.

Bill knows what he's talking about when it comes to basketball, most of the time, but it seems like this guy does more pre-game studying to buff up his commentary then he ever did in all his college days at UCLA.

If you have a chance, catch some of the next three games. Don't watch the game, do something else, like write or read or cut your toe-nails, just listen to Bill and all his worldly wisdom.