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That's Not A Car Dunk. <em>This</em> Is A Car Dunk
This is Frenchman Guy Dupuy putting on a show on the And1 Live tour. (Somewhere, Blake Griffin is saying to himself, "ohhh, jumping over the tall park of the car. Yeah, that would have been more impressive.")...
Blake Griffin Shows Hint Of Personality, Channels Mars Blackmon To Hype USC's Jordan Cameron
Mars Blakeman, nee Blake Griffin, took the time to film this promotional video for NFL hopeful Jordan Cameron, who played both football and basketball at USC. I'll leave the commentary here to tipster Brian, who wrote in with the link (sic): "This is kind of an odd thing, Why does this exist?" I a...
Shirtless Ryan Kesler Creeps, Eats Pizza Behind Teammate's Locker Room Interview
At first glance this is a routine, fairly boring post-game interview with Canucks forward Raffi Torres. Routine and boring, that is, until his teammate, Ryan Kesler, creeps into the frame and lurks behind the shot — half-naked and eating a slice of pizza. He offers the crust to Torres — that's rig...
The Real Dicky Eklund In HBO's <em>High On Crack Street</em> And Places Less Dignified
The sad tale of boxer Dicky Eklund has been well-chronicled on screens both big and small. One of the more interesting plot devices in the recent Hollywood film The Fighter is that the HBO documentary High on Crack Street shapes part of the movie's storyline. The video above includes some choice s...
Mets Ask For $50 Million More In Loans, Tell Mom They're Doing Fine, Just Need Some Money To Join A Gym
On Friday, we learned that the Mets had received $25 million in funding from Bud Selig's secret piggybank, on top of $75 million they'd already borrowed from Major League Baseball. Surely this meant the Wilpon family would finally have to explore selling the team. Or at the very least turn themselve...
Charlie Sheen Still Doing Insane Interviews, Now Channeling Allen Iverson
In Charlie Sheen's interview with Jeff Rosen of Today this morning, the former star of Two and a Half Men said that overdosing is "for amateurs" and AA is for "people who don't have tiger blood and Adonis DNA," and further immortalized himself by referencing, in his words, "the great Allen Iverson...
Jared Jeffries Is Probably Coming Home To NY Soon, Too
Those of you able to commandeer a television tonight will likely watch the Knicks/Heat, right? ...
Mets Owners Max Out MLB's Credit Line, Start Putting Stuff On Their Mom's Neiman Marcus Card
It's official, everybody: the Mets are broke. Wait, you knew that already. But now they're officially really, really broke. They're so broke, they just put all their CDs and VHS tapes up for auction. Where else will you find Jungle 2 Jungle and its soundtrack in one place, both lightly used? Well, B...
And Here's The Inevitable Blake Griffin Kia Commercial
A lot of us really enjoyed the NBA Slam Dunk Contest last weekend, which brought back a little luster to an informal, if hotly debated demonstration of the sport's signature play. Well, the climax of the contest wasn't a contest at all, nor a schoolyard top-this played out on a grand stage. No, we...
MLS Playoffs To Admit More Good Teams, Bad Teams, Possibly Your Grandmother
Getting into the MLS playoffs this year will be about as difficult as securing admission to the dogshit community college down the road from you. That's because the wise men who run the MLS have decided to let two more crap teams into a playoff system that not only confuses foreign players accustome...
The Rutgers-USF Women's Basketball Game Ended With A Scuffle And Two Middle Fingers Last Night
With under a minute to play and her team up five against USF last night, Rutgers forward Chelsey Lee rebounded a missed shot and was promptly fouled — spiritedly — by Bulls center Porche Grant. The 6'2" senior kept advancing, and eventually got thrown out of the game with a flagrant technical foul...
They Called The Cops On UTEP Coach Tim Floyd Last Night
Your morning roundup for Feb. 24, the day Edward James Olmos turns 63....
Barcelona Players Tripped Up By Language Barrier
The most amusing thing about this jokey dubbed-over video is that it's probably accurate. Ibrahim Affelay is from Holland, the new signing by Barcelona, potentially a good one and clearly not versed in Catalan. Is nobody studying Dutch in grade school anymore?...
Super Slo-Mo Dunk Videos Are Actually Quite Beautiful
Credit the NBA for having the most active YouTube channel. But we were taken aback by these hi-res, super slow-motion videos of DeMar DeRozan, Blake Griffin and JaVale McGee in the dunk contest (Serge Ibaka gets hosed again). Set to haunting music, they're simply: art....
Before Blake Griffin Dunked Over A Car, Kenny Smith Had A Three-Minute Religious Experience
If you missed the NBA slam dunk contest on Saturday night, you not only missed Blake Griffin dunking over a silver Kia and some other confusing but exciting shenanigans — you also missed Kenny Smith, Griffin's "coach" for the evening, delivering a nearly three-minute long speech about obstacles an...
Blake Griffin Dunks Over A Car, And Other Tales From The Slam Dunk Contest
The NBA All Star Slam Dunk Contest was tremendously gimmicky this year. Blake Griffin dunked over a car, JaVale McGee dunked two balls at once, Serge Ibaka dunked from the free throw line, and a child actor pretended to lose his toy for the good of a dunk. It was great....
Blake Griffin Interrupted The Crenshaw Choir To Jump Over A Kia
Your morning roundup for Feb. 20, the day autistic children surpass problem gamblers once and for all....
Let Three-Sport Town Los Angeles Eat Its Dunk Contest
Everybody already damn well knows that Blake Griffin is going to do something sight-bending in tonight's All-Star Weekend dunk contest. (Compulsive-gambler aside: "Field" is a solid bet, anyway). Whether that's reason enough to watch is up for you to decide. Here's the official contest site on whi...
Reggie Miller Shows What's Wrong With The Basketball Hall Of Fame
In his first year of eligibility, Reggie Miller didn't even qualify as a finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. There's obviously a problem here, and it doesn't lie with Miller....
Here's A (Nearly) Exhaustive Video Compilation Of Blake Griffin Dunks
Blake Griffin has done some variation of stuffing a ball through a hoop about 140 times in 56 games this season. We've compiled every single one we could find, in preparation for Saturday's dunk contest. Enjoy....