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Your One-Stop Shop For Outdated Jerseys
So here's a great idea for a blog: The random sports jerseys you see people wearing on the street....

NFL Season Preview: Green Bay Packers
Believe it or not, folks, the NFL season is much closer than you can possibly imagine. So close, in fact, that, if we're going to fit in every NFL team preview by the start of the season, we have to go this early. So there you have it....

R.I.P. Eddie Griffin
We send our condolences to the family and friends of former Timberwolves guard Eddie Griffin, who was killed last Friday when his SUV hit a moving train. Word of his death in Houston only came out yesterday....

NBAer Shot At DeShawn's House
It's still early, and many more details are yet to come, but according to WESH in Orlando, an NBA player was shot early this morning at the home of Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson....

Careful Where You Work Out, Shuttlesworth
Everything's hunky dory for Ray Allen these days. He's gone from being the lone stud on a lousy team to part of an axis powers of superstars for one of sports' most historic franchises. Things are looking up. Unfortunately, as he apparently realized recently, he's still a black athlete in Boston....

Donaghy's Official Guilty Plea, And His Pay Scale
Disgraced — as much as any NBA ref can be more disgraced than they already are — NBA ref Tim Donaghy has officially pleaded guilty to the charges against him. The Smoking Gun has the official document....

One Guy, Pleading Guilty, Blah Blah
If you're all excited — or even, say, a-twitter — about Tim Donaghy's impending guilty plea in federal court today to those whole charges of game fixing, well, settle down there, Paco....

Sorry, Seattle: Your Hoops Team Is Gone
So you know Sonics fans were holding out hope that the Kevin Durant acquisition might spur the new ownership group — which hails from Oklahoma City — to keep the team in Seattle? We wouldn't hold your breath on that....


Everytime Darius Miles Leaves The House, He's Teaching History
You might not be able to tell from this picture, which comes to us via the Blazers Blog and 100 Percent Injury Rate, but it's an etching (drawing? painting?) on the hood of Darius Miles' car. And it's awesome....

Yao Ming's Fantasy Wedding
Rockets center Yao Ming got himself hitched yesterday — or today, or whatever the hell the time change makes the actual date — in front of 70 onlookers and about 100 media people hanging out in the lobby waiting for interviews. It must be so odd to have people wanting to interview you after your wed...

Greg Oden is Exceedingly Likeable
Today's issue of the Oregonian includes a revealing feature on Blazers rookie Greg Oden. Joe Freeman does an excellent job conveying his subject's personality to the reader and even the Buckeye hater in me can't help but lighten up. It's not the first article to praise the young star but it does cov...

The Sun Goes Down On Elton
Being stuck in Clipper purgatory is painful, but that's got nothin' on a ruptured Achilles' tendon. Elton Brand suffered the devastating injury during his off-season workout at the Sports Club South Bay. Once the league's most underrated star undergoes surgery he'll face several months of recovery a...

Wizards, They Love Them Hos
Good rule of thumb: When a professional athlete is arrested for solicitation of a prostitute, we are required to write about it, even if that athlete only average 3.7 points a game last year....

Being An Obscure Gay Basketball Player Won't Help You Sell Books
It's difficult, in the world of sports book publishing, to garner better advance publicity than John Amaechi had for his book Man In The Middle....

It's Never The Offseason In The Mind Of Gilbert Arenas
We know you never miss Gilbert Arenas' blog, because you're a good hearted soul, but if you haven't had a chance to check today ... well ... we're just gonna go ahead and just quote Gilbert directly....