Archive for July, 2007

On Nowness, Barkley and Race in Sports: an Interview with Mike Wilbon of the Washington Post

Posted July 19, 2007, 4:36 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

You know him from the Washington Post, PTI and most recently, his squabble with Peter King. Perhaps you remember him from The Sports Reporters, back when it was the Supreme Court of sports journalism. Now the show has devolved into Judge Joe Brown, but that’s neither here or nor there. Mike Wilbon is among the [...]

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This You Gotta See

Posted July 13, 2007, 3:28 pm by Jason McIntyre (1 Comment)

For obvious reasons, we do our best to avoid youth sports on here. But the Commission unearthed a video of a kid they’re calling ‘The White Reggie Bush,’ so we had to take a peek. What you are about to see may startle you. This kid is supposedly eight years old, but already has tremendous [...]

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The Beckham Assault Continues

Posted July 12, 2007, 1:57 pm by Jason McIntyre (27 Comments)

As you can see here, David Beckham and Posh Spice seem to have invited a camera crew into their bedroom to take a few post-coital photos. There’s a bunch more here, and they’ll all be in W Magazine, should you feel the urge to look at Becks in his undies and Posh’s cups running over. [...]

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Bogut, Bling and the Surprising Lack of Media Coverage

Posted July 5, 2007, 4:36 pm by Jason McIntyre (34 Comments)

Blinded by the giddiness of the NBA draft and impending free agency, we completely missed a significant story: in a wide-ranging interview, Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogut trashed NBA players and the league’s culture for spending excessive amounts of dollars on material goods, cheating on their wives and being terrible role models. We can’t tell [...]

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