It used to be that your typical NBA cheerleading tryout was only photographed by some dubious guy with a porn stache who gained access to the gym through the ventilation duct, and then posted the photos on his MySpace page. But these days, with every potential reader aggressively in play, more “mainstream” media are catching […]

Someone at the WNBA finally realized that we’re never going to take them seriously as professional athletes until they start acting like it. So it’s quite the PR coup for the league to have one of their top stars arrested for DUI.

(”Who wants another round?”)
Star guard Diana Taurasi must have wanted to celebrate being the […]

The Lakers are already the defending champs, and while the Cavs are adding an over-the-hill Shaq and Boston is making overtures to the shell that once housed Rasheed Wallace, the champs may have made the biggest splash of all — adding the insane, yet extremely talented, Ron Artest.

(Odds Ron’s going to forget he’s Kobe’s teammate […]

Never really been a big fan of Kobe Bryant off the court. But he won my respect with his recent, appropriately prickly treatment of the most unpopular man in Los Angeles, *Mayor* Antonio Villaraigosa.

(What Jackson Browne was singing about)
Villaraigosa is reviled in L.A. as a do-nothing buffoon and consumate media whore. The mayor, who had […]