Reigning league MVP and Miami Heat star LeBron James has been all over the television promoting new endorsements (like Beats by Dre headphones). In one of the better ad campaigns of the season, James has a funny moment at home with his family wherein his eldest son, LeBron Jr., makes a funny doodle (of clown hair) on a picture [of James] using the new Samsung Galaxy Note II while his younger son, Bryce, eats cereal. Monday, he sent out a tweet with
We should all be grateful we are alive today. I say that to myself every time I hear of an unexpected death or tragedy, and that was certainly the case today when the Rockets announced that coach Kevin McHale’s daughter, Sasha McHale, passed away from Lupus at the tender age of 23. [Read more…]
Everyone has critics, some more than others. What often matters most is not the severity of said criticism or even that it happened, but how one reacts to it. Houston Rockets rookie forward Royce White took offense at some perceived criticism from a recent Adrian Wojnarowski column on Yahoo! Sports.
College football’s “Rivalry Weekend” is a great distraction from Black Friday sales and waiting in long lines at stores. The last and final weekend of the college football regular season is oftentimes the most important weekend of the year for some fans—as their team faces their most hated rival. Philadelphia 76ers center Spencer Hawes knows what it’s all about. As a college athlete, he played for the Washington Huskies. This week the Huskies face off against the in-state rival Washington State Cougars.
Welcome to Black Friday, a national disgrace. Pardon my venom this early on a Friday morning, but the very idea of lining up 24 hours before a sale begins has always struck me as beyond ridiculous. And then there are the stores that decide to open only one door, leading the a phenomenon familiar to anyone who remembers what happened in Cincinnati when The Who scheduled a show with festival seating. I got back from seeing fam and passed a few walmarts,
American Thanksgiving Day. A tradition passed on from the pilgrim settlers long long ago. A day in which we take time to give thanks for all that we have and all of the blessings that have been provided to us. NBA athletes are no less thankful than everyone else. Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard gives his thanks.
You never know what unexpected scene a cameraman might capture simply by pointing at certain people or a crowd at any given moment during a game. On Wednesday night, an innocent looking young boy was shown on camera as he reached for a candy bar from an Atlanta Hawks cheerleader. The camera kept rolling on the scene, and the boy was caught doing something absolutely hilarious: he noticed a different kind of candy in front of him. All three of them.
