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Shirtless, Slurring Lamar Odom Freestyle Raps In Sad Video
Here's some shit that will bum you out. According to TMZ, this video of a shirtless and fucked-up-on-something Lamar Odom freestyle rapping with some other dude was shot sometime in the last month. If that's true, it doesn't look like Odom's recovery from substance abuse issues is going too well....
Cracking Up With Charlie Barnett, The Legendary Street Comic
Originally published in the Village Voice (date unknown). Anthologized in the author's collection of reportage, No Success Like Failure. For a sort of companion to this, check out Solotaroff's dispatch from an Andrew Dice Clay show in 1989. The author's afterword is here....
A-Rod Storms Out Of Hearing, Says MLB Is "Full Of Shit"
The Alex Rodriguez Show rolls on! And gets better with every episode. Today, according to reports, Rodriguez swore, walked out of his arbitration hearing, and said he won't participate any more after it was ruled that Bud Selig would not have to testify....
Here's What Crack Actually Does To Your Brain
You know Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoked crack. But scientifically, do you know what crack does to the brain, and how its side effects manifest? Here's AsapSCIENCE with a quick and dirty rundown on how crack works and its side effects, including the gross, gross, gross delusional parasitosis, which I...
Len Bias Would've Been 50 Today
Len Bias is long gone, having overdosed on cocaine in 1986, two days after being drafted by the Boston Celtics. But as we wrote earlier this year, Bias is still very much alive in our politics. ...
Falcons Fullback Allegedly Tries To Eat Marijuana After Traffic Stop
Oh, Jason Snelling....
Report: MLB's A-Rod Witch Hunt Hamstrung A State Investigation
There are already plenty of reasons to call bullshit on Major League Baseball's crusade against Alex Rodriguez, but here's another one....
Pot Isn't Life And Death, And Tyrann Mathieu Isn't A Redemption Story
Tyrann Mathieu smoked some weed in college. If we're going to play this brain-dead association game, let's start by being clear about what he actually did. He smoked some weed, somehow got vilified for it, was thrown off his football team, went to rehab for weed, and now plays for the Arizona Cardin...
Does Former NFLer Sam Hurd Deserve Life Without Parole For Coke Bust?
Be sure to take time to read The MMQB's long look at the fall of Sam Hurd, the former Cowboys and Bears receiver who will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to drug trafficking back in March. Michael McKnight's story outlines the complex series of events that led two years ago to Hurd's arres...
Report: Alex Rodriguez Tested Positive For Stimulants In 2006
The New York Times has a massive story on the ugliness of Alex Rodriguez's arbitration hearing, and as you might expect, everyone comes out looking bad. Sex! Bribes! Leaks-a plenty! But your headline-ready revelation is that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for a banned stimulant in 2006, according to...
Carl Pelini Resigns For Using "Illegal Drugs"
Update, 4:15 p.m.: FAU head coach Carl Pelini's resignation after one-and-a-half seasons was due to his use of "illegal drugs," confirmed AD Patrick Chun....
Report: Texans Rookies Were Released For Smoking Weed
ESPN's Tania Ganguli is reporting that Cierre Wood, Sam Montgomery, and Willie Jefferson—the three Houston Texans rookie who were unceremoniously cut from the team yesterday—were released because they were caught smoking weed in a hotel room. [Exaggerated wanking motion]....
Report: A-Rod's Lawyer Tried To Fight Anthony Bosch's Lawyer
You know what this Alex Rodriguez appeal case has been missing all this time? A lawyer fight! Thanks to Rodriguez's attorney, Joe Tacopina, we finally got one. Someone hold Tacopina's cuff links, because he's ready to swing....
Jay Z Explains Why He'll Be A Good Sports Agent: "I Was A Drug Dealer"
The November issue of Vanity Fair features a big story on Jay Z—Get ready to find out how he wooed Beyoncé!—and the mag released an interview from the story today, a portion of which deals with Jay's recent venture into the world of sports agency:...
Josh Freeman Is In Stage One Of The NFL's Drug Program
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers/Josh Freeman real-time divorce is ugly. He was recently benched, then deactivated and banished to a suite (Schiano says it was a mutual decision, Freeman's agent says bullshit) for Sunday's 13-10 loss to the Cardinals. Now comes news that Freeman is in the first stage of the...
Marquette Lacrosse Player Accused Of Dropping Acid, Punching Cop
Rough Saturday for Charley Gargano, sophomore lacrosse player at Marquette. He may not have the typical laxbro name (too ethnic), but he's got the hair and the arrest record....
Why The NFL Should Let Players Smoke Pot
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
All The Quoted Players Who Are Backing Away From <em>SI's</em> OK State Story
Sports Illustrated is now more than halfway through its big dumb investigation into the Oklahoma State football program. Since the magazine began rolling out its five-part series, many of the former OK State players who were quoted by co-writer Thayer Evans have claimed that they were misquoted in t...
The Most Important Part of <em>SI</em>'s Oklahoma State Drugstravaganza
Part three of five (five! Jesus.) of Sports Illustrated's OK State exposé is out, and today's all about the drugs. You'll find this paragraph:...
There Is Peyton Manning Weed
Let's just go ahead and start calling them the Denver Potbros. You make one little plant legal in a state and everyone goes off the rails....