Former Kansas Jayhawks hoops star and devout christian Wayne Simien takes the KANSAS CITY STAR’s J. Brady McCollough through his life of temptation, which most prominently involved the appropriately-named Miami Heat.
Wayne Simien’s first team meeting with the Miami Heat, which drafted him in the first round in 2005 with the 29th overall pick, gave him […]

Bourbon producer Maker’s Mark announced today a commemorative John Calipari bottle. 24,000 bottles of the Kentucky-distilled booze produced will net $300,000 for the UK Symphony Orchestra and the UK School of Music.

(Cal’s jowled jaundice wonderfully depicted on booze bottles)
You can only buy the booze in Kentucky, and it’ll sell for $50 a throw.

I’ve been to Lafayette, Indiana, and the Purdue campus many times to work sports broadcasts. When I think of Purdue, I think of two things:

1) Gene Keady’s hair.
2) A dreary, featureless campus and city straight outta an early ’70s Buddy Ebsen-starring sitcom. (Thought about early episodes of Rockford Files. Too contemporary.)
One of the few, if […]

If you read SbB regularly, you know former world-class Ice Dancer Anna Semenovich. After a mildly successful competitive figure skating career, she’s gone from obscure Ice Dancer to Russian showbiz celebrity. (Apparently it isn’t the same thing after all.)

(That a scarf, or a tongue?)
I’ve posted plenty of photos and videos of Semenovich over the […]

While on leave from the Philadelphia 76ers to reportedly attend to his sick 4-year-old daughter Messiah, Allen Iverson spent the weekend away from home in Charlotte.

Iverson was at the CIAA weekend, and spent Saturday night partying at Club 935 in Charlotte with rap mogul Jermaine Dupri. (Yes, Iverson was there.)

Couldn’t resist posting this photo making the rounds this morning.

(’89 Liberty Bowl? James Jackson? Anyone?)
Can you guess the celebrity?

From Channel 9 in Australia today:

Only thing worse would be if a television network dumped out of the closing ceremonies for something called Marriage Ref. *shudder*