OMG! Holy Shit! A Girl dunked! WOW!
Candace Parker did it seven times. West Virginia’s Georgeann Wells was the first. Now another joins the pantheon.
Tuesday night, Baylor’s Brittney Griner became only the seventh woman in the history of college basketball to dunk. Video, if you haven’t noticed, is above.
Yeah? And? These are the most uneventful dunks I have ever seen. We have been watching slam dunk contests since 1980 and we’re supposed to get all riled up because a woman makes a simple yet very ugly dunk?
Sweet. All we have to do is wait 45 more years for women to dunk like men did over 40 years ago. Awesome!
Ladies, go make me a Turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Click on the photo to see the details of the signing.
Interesting way to announce. If LeBron takes the same route, he’s going to crash all social media sites in the process.
By the power of Zeus, I command you to go to our Unathletic Facebook Page.
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Mattress Ad Gets A Bit Racial – [Gibbs12]
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving in its Entirety – [HighDefinite]
Matthew Stafford’s Balls Dropped – [WithLeather]
Don’t Stair Surf On Glass – [RegretfulMorning]
Santa and Jesus Finally Start Answering Questions – [MildlyRelevantThoughts]
The Muppets Rock Out – [CelebrityOdor]
The college football season is winding down as fans in their mid-twenties across the country plead for more, milking their college experience years after graduating (advice: never graduate). Most fans love to see themselves a change up in championship games. Nobody wants a Yankees or Notre Dame championship, and thankfully the latter will continue for quite some time.
Fans, however, do love that random team that occassionaly seems to somehow make it to the championship game. Whether it be the Rockies of baseball two years ago or last year’s Magic, it’s who fans cheer for. With that in mind, I figured most probably wouldn’t care to see Alabama in the title game (despite not having been there in a long time) and Lord knows we don’t need to see another Florida championship. So I felt I should send out a friendly reminder.
Florida plays Alabama.
This essentially guarantees that at least one of the two won’t be in the national championship game, even if the game is close. After all, Michigan didn’t make it in after losing to #1 Ohio State while ranked #2 a few years back (the start of Florida’s dominance), so unless the BCS’ love of all things SEC continues, that ending should be out of the equation.
Unfortunately, I won’t be holding my breath for #3 Texas to lose to either Texas A&M or Nebraska. But damn, it sure would be awesome in that weird sort of way if TCU, Boise State or Cincinnati ended up in the national championship.
According to Baseball America, Dominican prospect Eladio Moronta has signed with – who else? – the New York Yankees:
Nearly two months after Major League Baseball lifted his suspension, Dominican center fielder Eladio Moronta has signed with the Yankees, a team official confirmed today.
MLB had suspended Moronta for one year earlier this year for misrepresenting his age, then lifted the suspension on September 28 after Moronta admitted he was 20 years old, not 17.
A Dominican player lied about his age? You don’t say!
There shouldn’t be suspensions for Domincan players lying about their age since every single one of them does it. Instead, MLB should implement some sort of conversion scale to pin down the age of these guys. Oh, you’re 16? Let’s plug that into this little formula here and…dikka dikka doo…looks like you’re 19 years and 5 months old! With that out of the way, how’d you like $2 million to play baseball?
How big a sports fan are you? Personally I’m a pretty big sports fan but am I as big a fan as I think? I mean I have buddies that hold season tickets and have been going to games since they were five years old. But who is the bigger fan? Does it matter?
I think to an extent it does. I fully respect when “true” fans get annoyed at front runners who only support the team when they’re good. I also respect when some ass posing as a fan gets called out because they don’t know shit about their so called favorite team.
So I decided to come up with 5 ideal characteristics of a sports fan
Ron Artest is pretty much the realest guy in the NBA (and maybe in all of sports), so it’s always worth listening to what he’s got to say. Artest is never going to sugar-coat anything, and he told it like it is when asked about free agents signing with the Knicks.
In a morning shootaround rant at the Lakers complex, Artest told three New York writers, “I think people need to stop being scared and just go to New York. They’re so scared of the pressure and the media. I’m like, pardon my language, but [bleep] the media and [bleep] everyone that’s putting pressure on them.
“That’s the one thing I hear from the players recently,” added Artest, who signed with the Lakers in July. “People don’t want to play in New York. They fear having a bad game, fear the fans. If somebody does go there, you got to be able to have a heart.”
Of course Artest is right. And I don ‘t necessarily think that not wanting to play for the Knicks means an athlete doesn’t have heart, it’s just that he doesn’t want to appear on the back page of the New York Post every time he takes a shit. Alex Rodriguez, one of the greatest baseball players I’ve ever seen in my life, a guy who is going to go down in the same class as Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle, has had ten times more articles written about his dating life and psychological makeup than about his actual baseball skills. One bad game by a New York athlete, and every dumb New Yorker with their stupid accents and tough-guy bravado has to call into a morning talk show and make a character assassination. The collective intelligence of New York’s fans is definitely missing a chromosome.
So, yeah, I can see why someone wouldn’t want to come play for the Knicks. Sure, the Garden is legendary, but dealing with the media and moron fans – no matter what you do -has got to be draining. Plus, the Knicks are so fucking crippled as an organization at this point that anybody who signs with them is in for years of losing. That includes Lebron, too.
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So remember how Jets wide receiver used Twitter to tell a fan to kill himself? Well, he’s using the Shaggy defense:
I want to talk about that Twitter thing. I don’t know exactly what happened, someone hacked into my account and went stupid crazy on my Twitter page. I just want to let the fans know that wasn’t me. I definitely want to apologize to anyone who was offended, but it wasn’t me. A guy with the team got in touch with someone from Twitter and took my page down so they could delete all those messages and change my password. So I have cancelled my Twitter account for now.
Wow. This is worse than “my dog ate my homework.” I know that Twitter accounts get hacked from time to time (how, I have no idea), but I don’t think David Clowney is high on the list of athletes who would be targeted for a hack. I mean, would you even know who David Clowney was if not for this article? You’re welcome.
What really happened here is that someone with the Jets was smart enough to take Twitter away from Clowney.
Just to get an idea of how ridiuclous it is, imagine using Clowney’s type of excuse in your life. That wasn’t really me who rear-ended you, someone cut my breaks. I wasn’t drinking in public, somone was forcing alcohol down my throat. I didn’t get her pregnant, someone poked holes in the condom. Alright, maybe that last example shows that Clowney may have the right idea after all.
The Nets received their season leading 14th straight loss yesterday to the Nuggets. I mean I guess one could say it was expected as the Nuggets are a far superior team. Hey at least the Nets are leading in something right? Absolutely shitty play. Granted Devin Harris has been out but still one would think a team who has a decent center could muster up at least one win no?
Plus I really enjoy all this losing. Screw Lawrence Frank. He looks like a little pain in the ass type guy and got totally lucky inheriting Kidd in his prime, Carter, and Richard Jefferson. Doesn’t Frank look like some little fired up redhead type that would annoy you to all hell as kids? Like the kind of kid who’d be like “let me come over and play!” or “you suck at this game, let me show you!”
Plus Rod Thorn? No, he was never this smart mastermind guy. Again, he had good players. Good executives don’t let teams get this bad. Rebuilding is one thing but potentially being the worst team in NBA history is another.
Come on guys. I’m rooting for ya!
So who exactly qualifies as the worst teams in NBA history? Here are my top five.
