This is where I put stuff down.
Jeremy Piven on his latest dietary issue. Piven was drinking about twelve cups of soy milk a day. I’m assuming his next problem will have to do with eating too much Fiber One.
via Huffington Post
Vibed
“ I was the guy that dabbled in soy milk, but now I’ve found out soy milk has enough estrogen for me to grow breasts. I had to put the soy milk down. It was a very confusing time. ”
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And if that is Alton Lister getting dunked on in the video below, that is even more of a bummer. Check out this video of the Reign Man dunking on Lister.
Two things I love here:
1. Shawn Kemp further embarrassing Lister by giving him the double pumping finger point. Kemp couldn’t have nailed that taunt any better.
2. The announcer - he also couldn’t have done a better job with the call on this dunk: “POWER SLAM! TOMAHAWK JAM! YEAHHHHHHHH BABY! INTO LISTER’S FACE!”
Watch the Reign Man’s top ten dunks here, it’s worth it.
Here is a video of the aforementioned Carey Scurry doing dirty work on who I believe is Alton Lister. It’s only three seconds long and gets cut off at the end, but it gives you a pretty good idea of Scurry’s athletic ability.
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Lil Wayne - Swag Surfin’
Stunt hard on these bitches I ain’t promised tomorrow/Not when they kickin’ it with me like Nomar Garciaparra
For some reason, I think it’s cool when Weezy name drops athletes in his raps.
Crazy stuff happens in JuCo athletics.
I read an article today about the mob’s influence in Taiwan’s professional baseball league. According to the article, the league has “been plagued by game-fixing scandals” in order to fatten the pockets of gangsters and politicians; players have even been pistol-whipped and abducted for not performing badly enough to effect the outcomes of games in the mob’s favor.
My Dad used to coach college basketball. This article reminded me of a story he told in which one of his players, Carey Scurry, was abducted by another college that was also recruiting him. When that college found out that Scurry had decided to go to Northeastern Oklahoma instead of their school, some of their boosters drove nearly seven hours south to Miami, Oklahoma, abducted Scurry at gunpoint from the dorms in the middle of the night and held him hostage in a Ramada Inn for a couple days. That is pretty crazy to think about, huh.
Scurry made it out unharmed and ended up playing for NEO (the two schools played each other later that season). After his first semster, he went home to Brooklyn for Christmas break and never went back to Oklahoma. He eventually played college basketball for Long Island University and in the NBA for the Utah Jazz, New York Knicks and in Greece for Olympiacos.
I came across an article today from 1995 where John Stockton was asked about some of the greatest catches that resulted in an assist for him. At the time, John Stockton had 9,911 assists and was on the verge of setting the NBA record for most assists in a career. Stockton mentions three catches that really stuck out in his mind - one by Karl Malone, one by Mark Eaton and one by Carey Scurry. About the assist to Scurry, Stockton said, “I just cut loose and I thought it was going in the stands and he jumped - maybe this sounds like a kid saying it - but it seems like he jumped to where his hand was above the backboard. I thought it was going into orbit and he dunked it.”
Pops seconded Stockton’s statement about Scurry’s athletic ability, he told me today that when Scurry dunked, his head was above the rim and that sometimes he shot down at the basket. Carey Scurry averaged 4.7 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game during his three year NBA career. He was only abducted once.
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Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Oh. No.
I’m looking forward to seeing this tomorrow night at The Empty Bottle, my favorite place in Chicago to see live music. Those of you that know me personally can go ahead and correctly assume my crush on Thao Nguyun.