8:30 PM Klondike is sponsoring an online smack talk-off between Chad Ochocinco & Terrell Owens. You can follow the 2-week long hilarity here. Ocho strikes first: "Heard you came out with your own cereal, hope they're ring-shaped, cuz those are the only rings you'll be seeing for a long time."
7:47 PMESPN's Beto Duran tips me to former Nebraska running back Thunder Collins getting a life sentence today for his role in a September 2008 shooting that killed one man and injured another in a drug deal gone bad.
7:24 PMPeter King today on Twitter: "Now it's certain to be a Cincinnati (Who Dey)-New Orleans (Who Dat) Super Bowl, with The Who at the half. (Thanks, @gmercer9)"
When we saw the quiet announcement today that Royal Ivey of the Milwaukee Bucks would enjoy a three-game vacation due to (in the NBA’s words) “punching Chicago Bulls center Aaron Gray in the groin” on Monday, we just had to see the 6′4″ Ivey attack the 7′0″ Gray’s area.
Thanks to the intrepid investigative work of ODENIZED, we have been rewarded. Watch the goofy tall white man in the post (Gray). At the 0:04 mark, Ivey collapses on Gray to double down when the ball’s fed in. At the 0:05 mark, Gray collapses to the ground and does not get back up. This is like the Zapruder film, except the shot is to the groin.
So what caused this fist to Gray’s anatomy? We have a suggestion…
It was, no doubt, a public relations masterstroke by the club. Gray’s mention in the letter of buying a Louis Vuitton bag for his mother must ease the minds of the Bulls fans who doled out thousands in ticket money this season, only to witness the most hideously underachieving team in the league.
And Gray also confirms what we’ve always known: Ben Wallace is a great guy! Read more…