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7:15 PM Joey Porter was at the Heat game Thursday night. And when the Dolphins LB showed up on the big screen scoreboard, the hometown fans reportedly booed.

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Uni Watch Gives Rock & Roll, PowerPoints To You

Posted by Richard Manfredi on Sep. 04, 2008, 12:10pm

Paul Lukas has made it his life’s mission to chronicle every bit of minutia about sports attire, both on his UNI WATCH blog and his weekly column of the same name on Page 2 of ESPN.COM. But now PITCHFORK MEDIA is reporting that Lukas will be living the rock and roll lifestyle, as he opens for noted indie rock band The Magnetic Fields on a couple of Midwest tour dates this fall.

But Lukas isn’t living out some sort of Rock Bottom Remainders writer-turned-lousy rocker fantasy - Lukas isn’t going to be doing anything musical at all. He’s just going to be giving a PowerPoint on…something. Maybe it will be sports-related, and maybe not. As the man himself says on his blog: