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The latest manufactured drama from the world of basketball (the previous one was Grant Hill vs Jalen Rose) centers around one of the best players in the NBA, Kobe Bryant. During last night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs, TNT cameras caught him calling referee Bennie Adams a faggot after being hit with a technical [...]
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Homophobia in sports is a problem. Despite increasing acceptance from the larger society, there are currently no openly gay male athletes in American team sports. Which makes Glenn Burke’s story so historic. Burke was a wildly talented multi-sport athlete who was compared to Willie Mays when he debuted with baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers. Yet his [...]
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Professional athletes are lightning rods for criticism. When they squander their finances we wonder how they could wasted more money than most of us would earn in several lifetimes. When they have legal issues we attribute it to the Dumb Jock syndrome and are quick to declare them guilty. If they fail to live up [...]
You had to be living under a rock to not know about Lebron James signing with the Miami Heat. The two-time NBA MVP was the most sought-after player in this year’s free agent class, and he made the announcement on an ESPN special called “The Decision” that was watched by nearly 10 million people. The [...]
Gilbert Arenas just can’t help himself. The basketball star, already under investigation for bringing guns to the locker room, made a bad situation worse by imitating gunfire before last night’s game. This proved to be too much for league commisoner David Stern to handle, and he has suspended Arenas indefinitely without pay. If the suspension [...]
Just when you thought the Tiger Woods scandal was fading away…. The new Vanity Fair boasts a series of previously unpublished photos of Tiger, including this cover shot of him as he’s never appeared before. The pics were taken by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz. I don’t know what Woods was thinking, but the thugged-out look [...]
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We begin 2010 with a late-breaking contender for Most Niggative Moment of 2009. Last week it was reported that NBA star Gilbert Arenas was caught with guns in his locker. That seemed strange, but the story gets more bizarre. Thanks to a New York Post exclusive, we now know Arenas pulled a gun on teammate [...]
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