NBA Season Is Here

The NBA season has started and class is back in session.   This point is highlighted by Shannon Brown from my hometown Lakers throwing down a rebound with considerable force and urgency.   Enjoy. Oh yeah, also, happy Halloween. I’ll be back and posting again on Monday. more about “NBA Season Is Here“, posted with [...]

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Nike’s New Ad Is Weird

Nike has a new ad out for their basketball branch that features a few up and coming NBA guys as the 1990′s’esque hip hop crew the Hyperizers performing the song “Don’t Criticize (Hyperize)” — and I’m not exactly sure what to make of it.  On one hand, the whole thing is incredibly strange, and let’s [...]

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Vernon Forrest: 1971 – 2009

Apologies, as I’m shamefully late to get this up.  Sadly, tragedy has continued to plague the boxing world as two-time champion Vernon “The Viper” Forrest was shot to death in Atlanta over the weekend.  The reports say that he was shot in the back after what appears to have been an attempted robbery.  He was [...]

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Hide Your Pitbulls, Michael Vick Is Back

The juiciest news of the day is probably that Michael Vick has been granted a conditional reinstatement by the NFL, with the possibility to receive a full reinstatement by week six of the upcoming 2009-2010 season.  So despite engaging in the most infamous dog fighting this side of Amores Perros it would appear that Mike [...]

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Arturo Gatti: 1972 – 2009

I’m late getting this up, but there is some more sad news on the heels of Alexis Arguello’s death, another famous boxer has passed away.  Former welterweight champion Arturo Gatti was found dead in a hotel room in Brazil over the weekend.  Apparently, his 23 year old wife is being held as a suspect in [...]

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LeBron James, Nike, and CONSPIRACY!

If the very beginning of this is old news, then you’re in the NBA know and please just bear with me for a moment.  During the summer NBA superstar LeBron James hosts a skills camp for younger players.  During this year’s camp, a pickup game broke out featuring a series of college players and LeBron [...]

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Alexis Arguello: 1952-2009

This is a pretty sad story.  The mayor of Managua, Nicaragua as well as boxing hall-of-famer and former three time world champion was found dead in his home this morning.  He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest that reportedly is looking like it was the result of a suicide. Not only has the world [...]

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Jordan & Mos Def

I know I’ve been kind of video-heavy with my posts of late, but I was about to throw up a review of Mos Def’s latest album, and wanted to first remember the man at his very peak.  Michael Jordan has always been somebody who has always been very conscious about being extremely digestible to the [...]

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For Father’s Day

With the US Open going on (even if Tiger Woods is struggling through the first two rounds) and Father’s Day this weekend, I had been thinking this would be a good video to repost.  I know it’s a commercial by an enormous conglomerate about one of the most wealthy and well known athletes on Earth, [...]

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The Decline of New York Basketball?

If you’re a basketball fan, and I am, you’ll probably find this article over at The New Republic interesting.  Essentially, it’s a look at the decline in New York basketball while chronicling the last year in the career of Lincoln High School’s Lance Stephenson.  It’s a very interesting read that brought back images of Kenny Anderson [...]

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