Notes: Tony K. Suspended Over Hannah; WADA (& the USADA) – Presaging a Surveillance State, Tomlinson for Westbrook?

Hannah and her sausage casing. The hardest working man in sports business, Tony Kornheiser, was suspended by ESPN Monday for two weeks his remarks about an outfit worn by ESPN SportsCenter anchor, Hannah Storm. Pardon the Interruption co-host, Washington Post columnist, WaPo podcaster, and radio show host, Kornheiser made his remarks on his radio show last week. Of Storm’s red knee-high [read more...]

NCAA Short Notes: Carroll Leaving USC? Joe McKnight is; More on the Jim Leavitt Firing; Tyler Smith Dismissed from Tennessee Under Cloud of Suspicion of Drug Dealing on Campus

USC running back Joe McKnight is tired of being hounded by NCAA lackeys and is turning pro. This is happening in the midst of serious talk that SC coach Pete Carroll is reported to be leaving the school for the Seattle Seahawks. Sources say that in the last few months the relationship between Carroll and USC athletic director, Mike Garrett [read more...]

Guns, Race, and Guns: Gilbert, Volunteers, and the Cost of Life in America

A Philadelphia fan holds up a sign for Gilbert Arenas. People in the United States – at least the U.S. – do not want to hear this. White people, Black people, people. But especially White and Black people. Black and White people. Even the juxtaposition – Black-White – is a contrivance, a sick trick of the mind. Racism exists today at its vile [read more...]

Kyle McAlarney: Just Another Case of Keeping the White Man Down; FBS Short: More ESPN Racial Shenanigans with Charlie Strong

Kyle McAlarney thinks he can ball with the big boys. He is a 5′11 point guard. His hops aren’t great but he can shoot the three. He plays defense adequately but not at a consistently high level. In college he was busted for marijuana and was removed from his team. Then his mother implied race had something had something to his [read more...]

NBA Quick Note: Ron-Ron Drops Bombs

Ron Artest in his studio. Ron Artest or the Los Angeles Lakers spoke candidly about his past, present and future. Check this out: In a lengthy interview for the December 7 issue of Sporting News magazine, Artest—best known as the central figure in the infamous Malice at the Palace in 2004—bared all… “I used to drink Hennessy … at halftime,” Artest says [read more...]

Cedric Benson Begins to Make Case for Attempted Blackballing by the Bears

At the University of Texas Cedric Benson was the heir to Ricky Williams. Benson even grew his hair out and into dreadlocks to honor the Heisman Trophy-winning Williams. It was said that Benson was a faster version of Williams and was sure to win a Heisman one day. Williams was perpetually shy and it was not until he was with the [read more...]

ESPN and the Fight to Demean All Black People

It’s Michael Vick night and the country is going mad - especially the White ESPN-oriented segment. Wednesday on Philadelphia’s - and ESPN’s - 950-AM sports talk radio, show host Mike Missanelli interviewed J. Whyatt Mondesire, head of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania chapter of the NAACP. Mondesire, along with the Black Clergy of Philadelphia have planned a counter-demonstration to animal rights groups that [read more...]

Michael Beasley in Drug Treatment (find out which league has a drug treatment problem)

What’s up with Michael Beasley? Despite the sports news reports that Beasley is suffering from a social anxiety disorder which he relieves with marijuana (see Ricky Williams), Dr. Drew Pinsky, of radio and television fame who has been seen in capacities as varied as co-hosting a comedy question and answer show revolving around teens and sex to hosting his own, [read more...]

Plax; Memphis Punished - SEMO too; A Too Buff Byrd… 92 PED-Positive MLBers? Kincade-Vick…

Okori: You’vre read SOMM enough to know that I have defended the weightlifting angle and been blasted for doing so. You also can see that I can see when players do things they shouldn’t do with the bat (e.g. Ankiel - see the links in the below comment on the PED list). Byrd has muscled up along with many Rangers, [read more...]

Michael Vick and the Effects of the Game “Those People” Run

Michael Vick stands before the press. On August 7, Michael Vick was videotaped for 23 seconds in a parking lot in Bristow, Virginia hanging with rapper, Young Jeezy. As soon as you could say “Uh oh”, Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports popped up  a link to the video on his Twitter page.  And as soon as you could say, “The Blond Ghost” Mike [read more...]

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