Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (going at two miles an hour):

• Generalissimo Doug Collins is still the Bulls coach.  Mostly.  Probably.  Jesus, it must be awful to stand behind John Paxson in line at McDonald’s.
• Rick Reilly, mysteriously available for a quote for a story about how he slayed malaria.  In other news, Rick Reilly starts next week at ESPN.
• Weegee wizardry found in Indiana garage sale by old women in Indiana.  They liked the trunk it was in.  ”…though how you could mistake a Weegee for a family photograph, I don’t know.”
• Everyone will soon stop dying of AIDS and malaria (thanks, Rick!) and will instead die of emphysema and this.
• Channing Frye, honey, stop watching Dr. Phil.  You’re killing us.  And the Trail Blazers.
• Yes, please.  Affirmed.
• And since the gymnast stories have already started filtering out…

And the Question of the Day (special guest reader: Mary Lou Retton’s haircut): How much sleep did you actually get last night after the triple-overtime thriller in the NHL Finals? We slept like swaddled babes, thanks.