Basketball
Links: Vitali Klitschko Wants Valuev or Lewis
News and Links for October 16, 2008…
Heavyweight titlist Vitali Klitschko is only interested in fighting Nicolai Valuev, who holds the only heavyweight belt not currently belonging to a Klitschko, or Lennox Lewis, the former champion who retired as such after beating Klitschko in 2004. Lewis hasn’t fought since that fight, which ended controversially, with [...]
Felix Homers Off of Johan; ESPN Writers Wet Themselves
News and Links for June 24, 2008…
Felix Hernandez hit a grand slam off of Johan Santana Monday, one of the most unlikely things to ever happen on the diamond, and ESPN’s crew of trivia-istas came to the rescue to help make sense of it all. Take it away Jayson Stark and Rob Neyer.
Joe Calzaghe [...]
Five Reasons I’m Not Interested in the NBA Finals
I’d do ten reasons that I’m not interested in the NBA finals, but I’m so uninterested that I don’t want to spend the time to put five more reasons to paper. I’m not a basketball hater, but I truly dislike what the NBA is in 2008, and this series represents much of what I [...]
RBI Baseball and Tecmo Bowl Making Comebacks
News and Links for May 29, 2008…
Two of the all-time great video games are on the comeback trail. First, SPORTSbyBROOKS tells us that RBI Baseball is slated to possibly return for Xbox Live Arcade, then Deadspin fills us in on the new version of Tecmo Bowl, coming soon to a Nintendo DS near you.
“I [...]
Kostya Tszyu vs. Jackie Chan in August?
News and Links for April 26, 2008…
Former light-welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu may be making a comeback…sort of. Tszyu is planning on taking on film star Jackie Chan in an exhibition to help promote the Olympic boxing tournament. The “fight” is tentatively scheduled for August 22 or August 23. Wow.
The Joan Guzman vs. [...]
Dana White Says Kimbo vs. Liddell is Possible
News and Links for April 14, 2008…
Dana White says he’d be willing to consider putting Kimbo Slice and Chuck Liddell together — if Slice ever beats “anybody that mattered.” I could see needing some credentials to fight Chuck Liddell circa 2003, but Liddell in 2008 is just a name. This would be the [...]
Portland State Basketball Kicks Ass
In yet another case of “When Athletes Attack”, a pair of Portland State hoopsters, on vacation in Mexico, allegedly beat a man so brutally that he nearly lost his life.
Scott Morrison, the Big Sky Conference defensive player of the year, and Jeremiah Dominguez, the Big Sky player of the year, were arrested and held after [...]
Mark Cuban vs. Bloggers — It’s On
Ever since Mark Cuban banned bloggers from the locker room at Mavericks games, he has been the subject of quite a bit of criticism.
Cuban came under attack after the ban when bloggers around the nation all simultaneously pointed out that Cuban himself is a blogger, and questioned his ability to be in the locker room. [...]
More USC Hoops Issues
Recently I wrote about the joke that is Lil’ Romeo’s basketball scholarship to USC, and in that piece I made it clear that Trojan fans may not be happy with the direction their basketball program is headed in. Now, coach Tim Floyd has added fuel to the fire by implying that USC may lose [...]
Kessler – Miranda Off
News and Links for March 26, 2008…
The bout between Mikkel Kessler and Edison Miranda is off. The fight, scheduled for May 24 on SHOWTIME, was agreed to by both parties last week, but Kessler’s people informed Miranda’s camp that they were pulling out of the fight. No reason has been given for Kessler’s [...]
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