The Roundup: Non-Yankees Stuff, Like Brandon Spikes Sitting Out and Dwight Howard Whipping It Out
Athletes and Celebrities, College Football, Drugs, Fans, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL, Television, Tennis November 5th. 2009, 9:00am
Rachel Bilson’s Flaunt magazine spread … how Nicholas Cage went broke … mailman gets DUI - while on duty … Stephanie Seymour’s divorce is much messier than Jim Nantz’s … next Halloween, maybe we’ll be in Boulder, Colorado … yes, the home-buyer tax credit is worthless and a bad idea … to avoid going to work at blockbuster, man stabs himself in the leg … idiot cops taser man as his house burns … daughter cuts father’s penis off, burns it on stove, gets 15 years in jail …
Florida eye-gouger Brandon Spikes decides to sit out the entire Vanderbilt game. Brilliant move diffusing the situation. (Palm Beach Post)
The time Dwight Howard whipped it out in front of athlete-loving porn star Mary Carey - she’s rumored to have been with a guy on the 76ers, the late Eddie Griffin, and Melky Cabrera. (SRI)
Good read about someone who knew about Andre Agassi’s positive drug test all along. (Star-Telegram)
Speculation about Notre Dame’s QB situation next year. Guess the media think Clausen is gone. (Sun-Times)
Interesting: By this time last season, three NFL coaches had been fired. (Oakland Trib)
After one week, Brandon Jennings easily is your Rookie of the Year leader. Steph Curry in second place. (SI)
If you wanted to attend last night’s Knicks loss to the Pacers, you could have done it on the cheap. Real cheap. McDonald’s for two would have cost more than a pair of tickets. (CSTB)
Agreed: There’s been far too many irrelevant stats and obscure trivia during the World Series. Would much rather hear stories, Vin Scully-style. (Post-Gazette)
Please bookmark this, and if anyone you know wins the lottery, send it to them. Must-read. (Freep)
Jim Rome will be honored at this South Park skit. (You Been Blinded)
Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian are supposedly moving in together. Here is another look at her incredible Halloween costume. And just to get your full Kardashian fix, here’s Rashad McCants on Khloe’s show. (TMZ)
As the season goes south, Michigan State football puts up a wall with the media. (Detroit News)
This trick probably has gotten this guy laid before.
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November 5th, 2009 at 9:08 am
wtf is with that dwight howard shit?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Tell me you put a little more thought into your economic theories than those morons.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:11 am
wtf is with that dwight howard shit?
she had nothing else to talk about? how old is that story? 5 years?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:11 am
man, that Chaz Bono dood sure knows how to pull some quality tail
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20316597,00.html
November 5th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Florida eye-gouger Brandon Spikes decides to sit out the entire Vanderbilt game. Brilliant move diffusing the situation.
Vandy, FTW!
November 5th, 2009 at 9:12 am
really? it’s that old? where the fuck have i been?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:12 am
freaking awesome.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Tough to disagree…(weeping at desk)
November 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am
read the lotto story
November 5th, 2009 at 9:15 am
I don’t know if I’d call that quality. Little above average.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Did anyone else not get the Len Bias re-run on ESPN2 last night? I tuned in and was surprised to see boxing.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:17 am
So, frosted-rowe’d Nsyncers > Dwight Howard, or am I reading this wrong?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Right, only 93 weeks left in the season…
November 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Now I have a question. Chaz Bono is like a leading activist for gay rights. Yet she became a he and now he is having sex with a she. Should’nt the gay community be mad about this?
November 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Chris, 52, won $42 million in the Mega Millions lottery on Oct. 3, 2008. Instead of taking the cash-out option, he gets payments of $1.625 million before taxes annually for 26 years.
Good for him, but if he’s as well grounded as the article makes him, taking the lump sum is the smarter move imo…
November 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
They pulled an eff you, Ill. The boxing went 40 mins too long, then they showed Nascar Now, then they showed Sportscenter, THEN they showed the 30 for 30. I DVR’d an extra 90 mins in case of something like that and still only got the first 30 minutes, have to catch the rest tonight on ESPNClassic. At 10, I think.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
apparently he also owns two islands. totally understand this, you need to be preparred for the zombie apocalypse with an island and team of SEALS to take out the sombies that wander in from the water, but two islands for this? man, his Z-Day preparedness is a bit extreme if you ask me…
/weirdo
November 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
read the lotto story
I prefer to win money betting on sports. At least then I stand a chance of actually winning.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:19 am
ill, check your local listings. They’ve been running the last two of them on Classic on Sunday evenings.
Nov 5, 11:30 on ESPN 2
Nov 8, 9pn, Classic
November 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Saying Mary Carey is a train wreck maybe the understatement of the century.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Hold on. They tax lottery winnings in Michigan? Is it like that in every U.S. state? That sucks.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am
God Damnit! Thx, bsanders.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Activist, correct. Gay, no. Transgender, yes. Not speaking for them, but it would seem the gay community gets mad only if you are a homophobe or bigot.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Does that chick go from homo to hetero?????
bi??????
November 5th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Hold on. They tax lottery winnings in Michigan? Is it like that in every U.S. state? That sucks.
Of course. It’s income. It also helps to wildly inflate the amount you could possibly win. If you win 40 million dollars, you immediately become a fiscal conservative, because you get a taste of that 39% tax bracket, plus whatever Michigan takes back from you.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:22 am
“We still have macaroni and cheese and hot dogs for dinner,” she says.
Of course we do, we just eat more.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I believe that they do it up here as well.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:25 am
badger - yes, lump sum gives you MORE money, but i imagine it’s also much easier to burn through it quickly that way. even if you are smart with your money.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I think they should have done some liposuction on Chaz at the same time they were doing the sex change. Man or woman, that’s one fat human being.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am
There is no possible way you did not know this. Any sort of winning of anything is taxable.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am
ugh. Dantonio only needed to put a clamp on himself, not the kids.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am
That explains why you guys have those huge jackpots. It’s not like that here (Canada, Ontario specifically). If the jackpot is $40 million, you get $40 million. The lottery corporation, which is government run, takes their cut off the top before posting the jackpot. It’s essentially the same in the end but we don’t have to deal with the whole lump sum vs gradual payout issue. You take your over-sized novelty cheque and you’re on your way.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:29 am
@TBL
I don’t think so. Youget paid more by taking the yearly payments. The reason the lump sum is the smarter option is because if something would suddenly happen to you payments are stopped immediately.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Interesting: By this time last season, three NFL coaches had been fired.
This year, the 4 worst teams all have first year coaches. The worst run team has already dared their coach to quit. The other worst run team’s coach is just waiting to be fired for punching people.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:30 am
25 percent federal tax and then whatever the income tax is in your state. NJ had actually zero tax on lottery winnings until earlier this year.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:30 am
There is no possible way you did not know this. Any sort of winning of anything is taxable
JayV, he’s Canadian.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:31 am
i would agree with this, in most cases i think the annual payments stop upon death. having a lump sum invested in something that you could withdraw the interest on annually would almost be the same as taking an annual payment on the winnings, plus if anything happened to you your family would still have the funds.
not that i’d actually win the lotto since i don’t play. but i have a plan.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:31 am
With the Powerball (at least), the lump sum is half of the total jackpot. The yearly annuity is the full amount paid out over 30 years.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Yep. Thats why if you win more then 10 grand at a casino call a friend and have him come help cash out.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am
There is no possible way you did not know this. Any sort of winning of anything is taxable
JayV, he’s Canadian.
Racist.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am
You make more with the yearly payments. Bit, if you invest even conservatively with little risk with your lump sum, you have a better chance of making more money in 26 years than you would with the yearly payments. Always take the lump sum and then just don’t go buying islands and bavarian castles.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Well definitely take the annuity!
/UFL’d
November 5th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I remember seeing an episode of Jeopardy where one of the contestants was Canadian, and Alex mentioning that her winnings wouldn’t be taxed in Canada because they were considered “windfall earnings”.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Finance 101 - Money now is better than money later (potentially). By not taking a lump sum, you are limiting yourself to the money you can make in interest.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:35 am
My friend actually had this problem in AC once… and we were a little young. A pit boss actually asked him how much money he had and my friend didn;t lie. Shockingly, he advised him to give me some of it just because they didn’t want to go through all the paper work for the IRS.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I was curious one day and ran some numbers. Figuring 5% interest per year, it took 10+ years for the annuity to catch up to the lump sum.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:37 am
you ALWAYS take the lump sum. take most of it then and invest in different maturity bonds so that when those bons mature you get money at different points over time and you earn a higher rate of return than the lotto is discounting for the annual payments.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:37 am
That.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:37 am
going to be a sluggish day.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Hank Gathers likes all this lottery talk.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:38 am
I like living with chicks that either like to be naked all the time or dont wear anything below the waist all of the time. I hope to do it again sometime soon.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Been at work for 2 hours now and I want to kill myself. I need sleep like Mary Carey needs valtrex.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:39 am
ouch
November 5th, 2009 at 9:40 am
guys - you’re assuming average joe knows the first thing about “annuities” and “bonds” and financial strategy.
and its not as easy as, ‘go talk to a financial advisor’ - one of those guys finds out you won the lottery, they’re going to swindle you. everyone will be after your money.
it really is a tough spot for the clueless folks (ie, most of the country).
November 5th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Any sort of winning of anything is taxable.
never report what you bring home from Vegas. and if you can’t carry your winnings on the plane with you, you made enough to rent a fucking car and drive back to wherever you’re from.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:40 am
This story cracks me up. The WAC’s bringin in the flacks!
November 5th, 2009 at 9:41 am
TBL, just put up a post, claiming Notre Dame is a certified lock for a BCS bowl, and then go take a 2 hour nap. The rest will take care of itself.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:41 am
exactly. they usually look like a miz.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Hold on. They tax lottery winnings in Michigan? Is it like that in every U.S. state? That sucks.
I live in a suburb with 40k people. Somebody here won a $318mm lotto, but a city needs to specifically put lotto earnings into their tax code or else they don’t touch it, and mine didn’t. Ugh.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Damn…
November 5th, 2009 at 9:42 am
cash money in a mattress pad with a shotgun and doberman.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:43 am
If they were smart, they would’ve started hoarding gold, guns and MRE’s long ago.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:43 am
never report what you bring home from Vegas.
A bunch of wrinkled, sweaty clothes, a nasty ass hangover, 3 half packs of free cigarrettes, and 7 ATM withdrawal receipts.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:43 am
BTW there are companies that deal specifically with lotto winners, where you can take the cash payment, and still get it in lump sums, but get more than you would from the state lotto. ALWAYS TAKE THE LUMP SUM.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I have on multiple occasions (at least 20), given a random degenerate a nominal cash fee to sign the IRS forms when I have cashed a reportable ticket at race tracks. While technically any winning is taxable, tracks are required to report any winning wager that pays over 600 to 1.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Not to mention the fact that we haven’t even discussed inflation, and that the value of the money that you’ll get in years 20-30 of the annuity is going to be less than the value of the money you’ll get in years 1-10, even if the dollar amount is the same.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:45 am
It’s a good weekend if that’s all you “bring home” from Vegas.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Hank Gathers likes all this lottery talk.
Len Bias is just pissed he didn’t sign that contract in that precious 24 hour window he had
November 5th, 2009 at 9:45 am
That’s why you need to find a financial advisor whose compensation is tied to the performance of your assets.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Reggie Lewis, uh….Reggie Lewis!
November 5th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Whether you take the lump sum or the payments, you are going to hire a financial advisors. The swindling will be less painful if you take the lump sum.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:53 am
that was mean…and the troof.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:56 am
re lump sum vs annuity payouts, it’s not as easy as it may seem.
a number of 401-k providers are giving people the option at retirement to turn the lump sum that they’ve accumulated over the years into a guaranteed stream of payments.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:00 am
off topic: anyone else watch “V” the other night?
November 5th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Not if your intelligent about it. Head to the nearest large, reputable bank. Hire a Private Bank advisor, whose sole job is to make money on your money and keep you happy. Start a trust, where the majority of the money sits, collecting interest.
It’s very easy to let all that loot slip away. It’s also very easy to make that money work for you from day 1, live a ridiculous lifestyle, and never work again.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:02 am
The difference is your 401 is transferrable after death. Lottery? Not so much.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:06 am
It wasn’t great, but not bad either. Morena Baccarin is smokin’ hot as usual and the look of the show is pretty good. But I do already want to bullet in the actor playing Juliet’s (from Lost) son.
/I can’t say enough how much I love Morena Baccarin
November 5th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Indeed. I dug it. I was 6 or 7 for the original and that scared the crap out of me. The new one reminds me of classic 80’s fare. Propoganda film at its best. This time, fear anyone and everyone, for they may be a terrorist. Nice twist.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:10 am
not one comment on the hotness of Rachel Bilson? slippin
V was outstanding
November 5th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Loved the Nic Cage story. He puts 100% of the blame on his financial advisor yet he owns a Bavarian castle, homes in LA,NY, Las Vegas and two in New Orleans. I am sure that owning that many multi million dollar homes and a fucking castle had nothing to do with the drain on his finances.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:11 am
lol.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I agree, I came off pretty douchey there.
/failed my family.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:16 am
i went in expecting sci-fi on the scale of Lost and FlashForward but was pleasantly surprised when it was much simpler and much more enjoyable. you know what the score is early and you’re not spending most of the time trying to figure out what’s going on.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I’ve seen this several times in this thread…if you take the annuity option and die, the payments still continue to your estate. Don’t know why people think otherwise.