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One More Mile

Last week i wrote a piece titled, Blazers Miles From Resolving Conflict, which now looks to be a true statement after today’s most recent update.  I wrote about the Portland Trail Blazers absurd reaction to the Memphis Grizzlies signing of Darius Miles to a 10-day contract extension.  Miles needed to only play in one more game […]

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Bonzi’s Impact In China

Bonzi Wells made his China league debut towards the end of 2008.  He scored 48 points and snared 11 rebounds in the debut, helping the Shanxi Zhongyu to a 107-106 win over Tianjin. Wells went 17-37 from the floor and shot 5-15 on three-pointers.  He also had seven steals in Sunday’s game.  Some un Bonzi-like […]

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Mayor RAVENstahl of Pittsburgh

In lieu of this weekend’s big game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke R. Ravenstahl has changed his name to Luke Steelerstahl. As amazing as it sounds, this is a true story.  A mayor in Pittsburgh was named Ravenstahl and actually got elected by the people, and that same mayor changed […]

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Blazers Miles From Resolving Conflict

If the name Darius Miles did not bring fear to the Portland Trailblazers organization when seeing him on the court, it does now.  Miles is causing a BIG stir in the NBA, affecting all NBA teams and getting the NBA Players Association involved. When Darius Miles was under contract with the Trailblazers he suffered what […]

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The Fro-Hawk

“Friends don’t let friends wear the FroHawk. If you are a soon to be pro athlete and are considering hiring an agent. Just do the “FroHawk Search”. If they have any clients with Fro Hawks, pick a different agent.” Those are the words of Mark Cuban from his blog, blogmaverick.com.  Despite his legal troubles with […]

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Vincesanity

Vince Young is suing “three friends” for using the “VY” and “INVINCEABLE” names that his three friends got trademarked after his National Championship Rose Bowl appearance for Texas. Rodney Vannerson, Enos Cabell and Tom Roberson were the individuals listed as “three friends” in the complaint filed in a Houston District Court on December 12th.  Young […]

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When In Rome, Do As Brandon Jennings Does

After reading many articles including ESPN The Magazine’s Chris Broussard’s on Brandon Jennings‘ progress in Rome, along with checking out Jennings’ blog, When In Rome, you can certainly see why Jennings will be a lottery pick in 2009.  He has clearly matured as a player already and will only get better until he makes him […]

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Rosenhaus Picks Up Plax’s Fumble, Sort Of

At halftime of the Monday Night Football game between the Texans and the Jaguars three weeks ago, Drew Rosenhaus was given the opportunity to speak live about his client, Plaxico Burress‘ most recent legal situation.  Rosenhaus did his usual clean up job, answering only the questions that he seemed to feel would help his client, […]

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So, You Want To Be An Agent? The Entourage Effect

Most of you are familiar with the hit HBO series Entourage. The show is based on the experiences of Mark Wahlberg as an up and coming movie star coming from Boston to Hollywood. Wahlberg is represented in the series by movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier). Wahlberg said that the idea for the show came […]

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Mark Cuban’s Complaint

As you might have heard by now, billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, has encountered a problem. On Monday, Cuban was issued a civil complaint by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in federal court in Dallas, Texas. The complaint charged Cuban with insider trading regarding his sale of 600,000 shares […]