Locker Page 1347 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Anyone See Glory Road?
I considered going to check it out, but I was a little hesitant. Nothing against Jerry Bruckheimer, but I don't feel like giving up $8 to see him tackle any serious issues of culture, because I doubt it's going anywhere beyond the standard Hollywood "let's just make sure we all feel warm and fuzzy...
OIbermann Vs. Swann: Battle Of The Intellects
We'll confess a slight affection for Keith Olbermann, though we sometimes think this conversation happens in his head every day:...
OK, The Knicks Are Starting To Freak Us Out
Last night, the Knicks — the New York Knicks — won their fifth straight game, beating the Dallas Mavericks 117-115 in overtime. (We had tickets to this game but had to turn them down; hey, "Yes, Dear" was on.) These weren't weak wins either; they beat Cleveland on the road, and Phoenix and now Dal...
Flea Likes All Kinds Of NBA.com Products
We haven't checked in on our friend Flea — not to be confused with Our Friend Flicka — and his NBA blog for a while. Looks like Flea is currently in Australia, suffering from a lack of proper NBA inundation, but that isn't stopping him from some more slam poetry, or something....
Eva Longoria Slumming It, Big Time
Gossip site EITM Online — imagine US Weekly with uncomfortable photos of Mischa Barton's, uh, monthly visit from a friend — has a picture they claim is of Eva Longoria (Spurs guard Tony Parker's lady friend and fellow terrorizer of Mexican police officers) and ... wait for it ... "ESPN Hollywood"...
You're Doing A Heckuva Job, Swanny
After months of hinting and posturing (we mean, testing the waters. Sorry), Steelers Hall of Fame wide receiver Lynn Swann made the big announcement last week — he's running for governor of Pennsylvania. Swann, a football commentator for ABC, hopes to earn the Republican Party endorsement for the ...
Vroom-Vroom-VROOM!
Well, once again a religious group is threatening our constitutional right to admire a different NBA cheerleader in a bathing suit every month. The American Decency Organization is hopping mad at the Detroit Pistons for a recent team calendar which features members of the Pistons dance team in sk...
Look Out For The Black Mamba. (Relax, We Don't Mean Literally)
We hate to be the ones who have to point this out, but after all we've made fun of him for — with our personal favorite still being Chuck Klosterman's notion that the Lakers are like "an eighth-grade intramural team which happens to have one kid with a mustache" — it's worth noting that the man no...
Mark Madsen's "Text Messages With The Stars"
Someone just directed us to Mark Madsen's blog — we honestly had no idea he had a blog; a star of such caliber, too! — and pointed out this particularly amusing entry about a cellphone text message he sent to Robert Horry last year, after Horry's huge 3-pointer for the Spurs in the NBA Finals:...
Gheorghe Muresan Will Destroy All Bloggers
Apparently, former Washington Bullet/Billy Crystal co-star Gheorghe Muresan does a lot of meet-and-greets at Wizards game, and blogger Mark Pike was one of them and sent us this picture....
Fiction Is Actually Stranger Than Kobe's Truth
Further showcasing the almost impressive casual racism of the porn industry, a reader sends us the link to this very special porn film: Tobey Bryan's Backcourt Violation, from our classy friends at Hustler....
Rodman's British Reality Debut
Well, the rumors were true, if they're not too lame to actually be called rumors: Dennis Rodman, who "has more going on in his life than ever before", is appearing on the Big Brother program, living in the house, all that....
Tracking The NBA's Secret Man
If you're unsure of just how cool this whole Web stuff can be, get over to Henry Abbott's True Hoop and check out how investigative reporting will be done in the future. (And we don't mean "with rocket packs," though that's possible.)...
The Ladies Love Fennis Dembo
True Hoop and End Of The Bench have one of those stories that they just knew we weren't going to be able to resist: Rampant groupie sex, in Detroit, in the late '80s. We mean, come on. That's bait, catnip....
Stu Jackson, Straight Up Gangster
We remember covering the Illinois basketball team back in the early '90s, when Stu Jackson was coaching the Wisconsin Badgers. We never found Stu all that talented a coach, but mostly, we were struck by how bland and vanilla he was. For a guy who had once coached the Knicks, we were expecting some...
Dennis Rodman, "Reality" Star
We haven't heard back from an inquiry email we sent our man Darren Prince yet, but we're hearing a lot of rumors here, and hey, rumors, we like rumors....
Elton Brand Is No Yuppie Scum
It's possible this has been around for a while, but we hadn't seen it. Apparently, a Duke fan got a hold of former Dookie Elton Brand's email address and lambasted him for leaving the Blue Devils early for the NBA. Brand, if the email is to be trusted, was less than amused....
LeBron James Is Three Years Younger Than The Bush Twins
Yep, the rumors you've heard are correct: LeBron James is turning 21 years old tomorrow....
Athlete Run-In: How James Posey Is Like Ice Cream
A little bonus athlete run-in story for you today, about Heat swingman James Posey (who, inexplicably, is dominant for us for Miami on NBA Live 06). It comes to us from Erik G:...
Beware Of Bicycles, Young Frenchman
As a followup to yesterday's Tony Parker-Eva Longoria dustup with the San Antonio police department, the great Smoking Gun — whose annual holiday gift just arrived in our mailbox — has dug up the official police report from the incident. It doesn't have too much extra information from the original...