Poor Pau Gasol...

How do you let this happen twice in one game though?

Zzzzzzz, Nike, Zzzzzzz.

I know the NFL loves its tradition and all, so I wasn't expecting anything TOO radical when Nike unveiled its designs for all 32 teams for the upcoming season. I will not, however, sit here and front like I wasn't expecting them to do a little bit more than simply replace all the Reebok logos with Nike logos. Ahh well. At least I don't have to purchase a "new" Ravens jersey.

To view each of Nike's NFL designs, click here.

Anthony Davis...

I know you're headed to the NBA and all, bro, and that's cool, but you have got to pull yourself together.

Lulz

Somebody on Twitter said LeBron doesn't have 360 waves anymore, he has 270s. iDied.

All Hail Nick Faust

"You maaaaad! You maaaaad!" (c) Cam'ron

Congrats to Dirk and the Mavs. Lol @ the Miami Heat. Lesson of the day: Don't count your eggs before they've hatched. Literally.

A Baltimore Sports Tradition

Sickest lax goal I've seen in a while.

This is from the Maryland-North Carolina game in the first round of the 2011 NCAA Men's Lacrosse tournament. Watch for the fake hand-off. Everybody -- all the UNC players, the cameraman, and the announcers -- were all confused by this hidden ball trick. If you're wondering, Maryland went on to win the game 13-6 and will face top-seeded Syracuse in next week's quarterfinals.

We'll miss you, Coach.

Thank you, Coach Williams, for everything you've done for the State and University of Maryland, college basketball, and the Atlantic Coast Conference. I'll miss the hell out of you.

Hall of Fame Gary By The Numbers

1 NCAA National Championship

2 Final Fours

3rd Winningest Coach in ACC history

4 NBA Lottery Picks

6 Conference Championships

8 Former Assistants who became Head Coaches

9 Sweet 16s

17 NCAA Tournament Appearances

22 Years as Head Men's Basketball Coach at Maryland

28 Former Players selected in the NBA Draft

33 Years as a Head Coach

668 Career Wins

Countless Memories

Chris Bosh is such a lady.

No apology from Kobe Bryant

As if loving Coach K and Dook and allegedly raping under-aged white girls, then paying his wife off in diamonds weren't enough, Kobe decided to further solidify his spot on the Mt. Rushmore of all-time biggest jerk offs in sport by dropping the F(aggot)-bomb on on NBA official Bennie Adams last night during the Lakers' win over San Antonio. As you can imagine, he was swiftly lambasted by gay rights groups and fined $100,000 by the league. 

Kobe today issued a statement in which he apologized for nothing and essentially blamed everybody else for their interpretation of his comment.

“What I said last night should not be taken literally. My actions were out of frustration during the heat of the game, period. The words expressed do NOT reflect my feelings towards the gay and lesbian communities and were NOT meant to offend anyone.”

Essentially Kobe is suggesting that though he was angry at being hit with a technical foul and lashed out at the ref by calling him a "fucking faggot", he didn't actually mean to offend anyone. He also suggests that anyone who thinks what he said was in the least bit insensitive or wrong needs to chill.

Does calling a ref a "fucking faggot" in the heat of a game make Kobe a homophobe? I don't think it does. At the very least this way-too-sure-of-himself son of a bitch has once again reminded me that you can be one of the best athletes on the planet and still be an inappropriate idiot.

(Scroll to 0:35 to see Effing F*ggot-gate for yourself)

GQ's Worst Sports Fans in America List

 

GQ sometimes does these top-10 lists. Top cities to get easy booty, the best drinkto give the heaux, whatever. The magazine recently released its top-10 list of America's worst sports fans. 

I can pretty much personally co-sign most of this list. Philly (#1 and #2 on this list...a damn shame) is only about 90-minutes north of where I live. They're fans are mean and bitter and angry. They'd stone the tooth fairy. I went to Maryland (#5) and can tell you that Terp fans easily deserve a spot among the worse. Maryland plays Duke (#8) twice a year in every sport. And everyone knows that anyone who roots for Duke in any thing also wants the terrorists to win.  Maryland also plays WVU in football pretty much every years. They're mostly hicks. The MLB team where I live is in the same division at the Red Sox (#6) and the Yankees (#9). Penn State isn't all that far away. Their fans are as delusional as fans can be. I can 't speak on the other ones.

Here's the entire list.

1-tie. Philadelphia Eagles

1-tie. Philadelphia Phillies

3. West Virginia Mountaineers

4. Oakland Raiders

5. Maryland Terps Basketball

6. Boston Red Sox

7. Penn State Football

8. Duke Basketball

9. New York Yankees

10. LSU football

Hat tip: gq.com

Coach Williams

Thank you for everything you've done. You're no longer effective. It's time for you to go.

Al and Jesse, please go sit the hell down and let Rush Limbaugh buy the Rams already.

Black folk hate them some Rush Limbaugh. They don't even know why they hate him, but they hate him. Hell, I was hyper-critical of Rush Limbaugh until I turned 25 for two reasons: I'm black and like random Soul Train lines to Will Smith's 'Summertime', it's what we do.

Rush recently announced that he is part of a group that wants to purchase the St. Louis Rams football club. Instead of applauding that man for being brave enough to dump money into one of the NFL's shittiest teams, Black America chastised him and booed and hissed from the peanut gallery. And you know when Black America cries out you know our saviors Al and Jesse swoop in to the rescue. Yet again, they answered the bat phone:

From the Associated Press:

ST. LOUIS (AP)–The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson attacked the bid by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams on Monday, saying the conservative radio host’s track record on race should exclude him from owning an NFL team.

Sharpton sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, arguing that Limbaugh has been divisive and “anti-NFL” in some of his comments.

Jackson said in a telephone interview that Limbaugh had made his wealth “appealing to the fears of whites” with an unending line of insults against blacks and other minorities. “The National Football League has set high standards for racial justice and inclusion,” Jackson said. “He should not have the privilege of owning an NFL franchise–and it is a privilege.” The civil rights leader said he’s had contact with numerous players and ex-players concerned about the bid.

Limbaugh shot back at Sharpton on his radio show.

“Now, this saddens me as well this disappoints me,” he said. “I know Rev. Sharpton. Sharpton is better than this. He knows better than this. You know, I didn’t judge Al Sharpton’s fitness to be in radio when he wanted to earn an honest living for once, given his well-documented past as the author of the Tawana Brawley hoax. I believe in freedom and I also don’t discriminate.”

Limbaugh said last week that he is teaming up with St. Louis Blues hockey team owner Dave Checketts in a bid to buy the Rams. He has declined to discuss details of the offer, citing a confidentiality agreement.

In 2003, Limbaugh worked briefly on ESPN’s NFL pregame show. He resigned after saying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.

Now why oh why are they making this an issue? Black women are still catching HIV/AIDS at a higher rate that any other demographic on Earth. Our schools are still failing miserably. We, and by we I mean us coloreds, are still paid less than our white counterparts. Our families are still broken and non-self-sufficient. Our urban neighborhoods are still very much crime ridden. Yet in the midst of all this these fools are up in arms about Rush Limbaugh buying a damn sports franchise?

Why? Because he says some bigoted shit sometimes? How exactly is Rush's comment about McNabb being overated and hyped because the media wants to see a successful black quarterback any different from black people thinking D. Whyte Man is holding us back or letting white folks get ahead based solely on race? I'm sure your older Aunt Faye has said some pretty racist shit about white people or Mexicans or Asians (cus ya'll know it's against our religion distinguish Koreans from the Japanese and Chinese or even know that peeps from the Middle East are actually Asian) and you still let her live, don't you?

We, the black people, have got too much going on in our glass houses for us to be throwing stones at Rush Limbaugh. This is especially true because majority of our broke asses aren't even in the market for a damn NFL team -- and that has nothing to do with the recession. Al and Jesse need not to cry wolf so often and fall back until a cause worth fighting comes along. I mean, it's not like Rush said he wanted to rip the President's nuts off or anything. Geesh.

Dear Barack Obama: You're the President of the United States, not a male cheerleader. Start acting like it, please.

He gambled and he lost, and now the whole exercise looks a little silly, doesn't it? It's ok to say yes.

President Obama, the first lady, three airplanes, several limousines, Secret Service staff and, of course, Oprah Winfrey, the President's back-up first lady, headed to Copenhagen last week to try to lure the Olympics to Chicago and came up quite short. The Windy City finished fourth in a field of four. But that's sort of the way it's been going for the president lately.

Instead of Copenhagen, he might have gone to Chicago and addressed the brutal murder of a 16-year-old honor student in broad daylight at the hands of four street punks. Remember the lectures we got from Obama during the campaign about family values and the importance of a father figure in a child's home, et cetera? Well, here was a real chance to walk that walk, but he took a pass in favor of Copenhagen. Instead, all we got was the White House press secretary saying the beating video was chilling.

The Olympics news came the same day as the jobs report, and that news wasn't any better. Many more job losses than expected. The unemployment rate at its highest level in 26 years.

After centuries months of debate, health care reform STILL isn't going anywhere. Iran is thumbing its nose at our president and the world. They might soon be able to blow up the entire neighborhood over there. North Korea doesn't seem deterred by our change of administrations either.

Afghanistan is getting worse, and there's now disagreement within the administration on what to do about that, study it some more seems to be the short-term answer. Meanwhile, our troops are dying in record numbers there.

Except for the stimulus package, the scoreboard doesn't look too good for our new president.

What does President Obama have to do to start putting some wins on the board?

I'm 99% sure Usain Bolt isn't human.

Nobody off the island of Jamaica knew who this kid was pre-Beijing 2008, now he's a living legend. Usain Bolt today further cemented his legendary status by demolishing his competitors at the 12th annual IAAF Leichtathletik Weltmeisterschaften in Berlin and breaking the world record in the process. Bolt finished the event in 9.58 seconds just ahead of American Tyson Gay, who claimed the silver with a new national record of 9.71 seconds and fellow countryman Asafa Powell, who placed third.

Bolt is a beast! I feel like he's one of those special kinds of athletes us mortals should feel fortunate to live to experience. Here's the video of dude's performance.

I'm 99% sure Stephon Marbury is on hardcore drugs.

Stephon Marbury recently spurned Boston's one-year veteran's minimum offer and is a free agent as a result. I suppose that's why he's been his unemployed ass has been living his life through the internet of late. Get into this videography which is bizarre to say the very least.

VID#1 - This clip made its innawebs rounds several days ago. Stephon films himself crying to this 1995 ass Kirk Franklin track and decided to post it on YouTube. I suppose nearly 15 years later the spirit finally caught up with him. I'm just sayin'. And before one of you churchies jump down my throat about disrespecting this man's moment with his Lord and Savior, please save it. I'm not clowning him for spiritual experience. I'm clowning because in lame loser fashion he decided to film it and post it on the internet.

VID #2 - More recently he posted this vid addressing his haters and debuting his new "dance" while looking mo' suspect than a muuuuug. The first few seconds of this vid sincerely concern me.

VID #3 - Lastly, he decides it's a great idea to go HAM on ESPN. LOL @ his idle threats.


This dude is a f*cking mess. I see why his ass ain't signed.

Photos from Steve McNair's Funeral

The casket of Steve McNair is brought in at the start of his funeral service in Hattiesburg, Miss.. McNair, a former NFL quarterback with the Houston Oilers, Tennessee Titans, and Baltimore Ravens, was shot to death in Nashville July 4.

Mechelle McNair attends the funeral service for her late husband, Steve McNair, in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Brett Favre attends the funeral for ex-Ravens quarterback Steve McNair in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis (left) and Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young were among the more than 4,500 in attendance for Steve McNair's funeral at Southern Mississippi's Reed Green Coliseum.

More pics after the jump.

Summer '09 is not a good look for celebs; claims another famous life. RIP Steve McNair

Rest In Peace

Steve McNair
1973 - 2009

I honestly wish we could fast forward through the remainder of Summer 2009. It just keeps taking far too many lives for my liking. After having already sealed the fates of Harvey Presnel, Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, and, of course, Michael Jackson, this season struck again on Saturday claiming the life of former NFL QB Steve McNair.

Though the details are still VERY much sketchy as Nashville police are working the active crime scene, officials are calling this a murder-suicide. Regardless of what happened and how it happened we lost one of the good dudes yesterday. Despite playing for the much hated Tennessee Titans before signing with the Ravens for the last year of his pro career, I always had a soft spot for Steve and the work he did in undeserved communities in Nashville and then Baltimore.

This really hit me and certainly made me feel some kinda way. Anyway...R.I.P., Steve. Thanks for everything you brought to the table.

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Not a fan of LeBron or Kobe, but I like these commercials.