I wrote about this guy 4 years ago, and now he’s all growns up.  I said, he’s all growns up! dammit, why couldn’t the mavs have signed him?

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there is a rich history of professional sports and political activism1.  but truth be told, these days most pro athletes and owners try to stay out of the headlines when it comes to expressing political opinions.  anyone remember when lebron james wouldn’t sign a petition calling for a stop to genocide in darfur?  i do. [...]

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from truehoop: a story about everyone’s favorite underwhelming australian former number 1 NBA draft pick, andrew bogut, ran in an australian newspaper yesterday. truehoop’s analysis of the newspaper article focuses on some bogut remarks about NBA culture. basically, bogut seems to buy into the notion that nba culture is destructive and that NBA players have [...]

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you may have heard that marginal slightly above average nba player j.r. smith recently got in a bad car accident that left one of his good friends dead. of course, the media coverage has been minor across the nation as j.r. smith is not a big name. however, as you might guess coverage in the [...]

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according to the new york times, nba officials have a racial bias! i use an exclamation mark because if this research by a penn professor, justin wolfers is correct, this is an extraordinary development. according to the article, white officials are more likely to call fouls on black players, and black officials are more likely [...]

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no really, he said so himself. his quote on a radio show: You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United [...]

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the title of that post is much more dramatic than it needs to be. anyways, as you know i am a terrible blogger these days, i’ve really missed the window on the superbowl, but i had nothing different to say than anyone else…game sucked, commercials sucked, prince rocked, and rex grossman sucked. but i did [...]

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