5/3: Giving The Veto To A One-Man Laker Team
• Poor Kobe Bryant. First he didn’t like sharing the ball with a future hall of famer, and now he wants a better supporting cast.
So now, following a third straight disappointing season after three championships and another NBA finals berth in a five-year span, it's reasonable to question the Lakers' direction. And that's what Kobe Bryant did after a second straight first-round loss to the Suns.
"Personally for me, it's beyond frustration -- three years and still being at ground zero," Bryant said. "This summer's a big summer. We have to see what direction we want to take as an organization and make those steps and make them now."
I used to be a Kobe fan (well maybe not a fan, but I had no problem with him) back when he played alongside Shaq, but when this duo split up the line was drawn in the sand: you were either with O’Neal or Bryant. I chose the former. Don’t know why. Maybe it’s because Shaqueille has made several thuggish ruggish rap albums. Yeah, that’s got to be it. In honor of this, I got Shaq Diesel playing now.
I’ll treat you like Spielberg/you get Jur-ass kicked in the park.
Yes, it’s going to be one of these entries.
I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t be able to work with a teammate that could win championship ring after championship ring. Then again, I’m not a pro athlete so what do I know about the pressures of making millions of dollars for playing basketball? If I had to share a locker shower room with O’Neal, I’d probably be pissed off, too. And for the record, I don't think Kobe raped that Colorado chick. But it serves him right for fucking around with those white girls.
My Ford Explorer boomin' with the clumped-up funk,
all you jealous punks can't stop my dunks,
they're brand new like Heavy,
built like Chevy, Impala,
but Shaq's a smooth balla,
(yeah, but what about rhymin?)
I can hold my own,
knick-knack shaq-attack, give a dog a bone.
Not even...
About to get busy like Gomer Pyle
...can compete with that one.
• Hey, W. might use the ol’ veto pen again.
The House voted Thursday to expand federal hate crime categories to include violent attacks against gays and people targeted because of gender, acting just hours after the White House threatened a veto
I said it before and I’ll say it again. Fuck hate crimes. If some black guy calls me a no-good cracker while jacking me for my scrillia scratch, I want him to get the same punishment as he wouldn’t have said anything. Of course, I’d want the person to be hung from a tree. Wait a second, that might appear RACIST. How about hanging from a telephone pole? Yeah, that’ll work.
• Woah woah woah.
Disgraced radio host Don Imus will sue CBS Radio for the huge portion of his $40 million contract that was left unpaid after he was fired for racist and sexist comments, his attorney said Thursday.
Martin Garbus, a First Amendment attorney, said he plans to file the breach of contract lawsuit by the end of next week.
Imus, 66, was barely three months into the five-year deal with CBS when he was dismissed April 12 after describing the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" on his nationally syndicated radio program.
Five years. $40 million. Don Imus would have made EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR?!
• Why in the bloody hell is this even a story?
If O.J. Simpson picked it, here's how the Kentucky Derby would end: Tiago at the wire.
"I'm just loving Kentucky this week," Simpson said on a rainy Thursday morning on the backstretch. "It's just a great time."
Simpson made his fourth straight trip to Churchill Downs since being acquitted of murder charges in the June 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. Simpson made several visits in the 1970s and said he used to think about owning a Derby horse.
"I used to be in the horse business a little bit with (billionaire horse owner) Wayne Hughes," said Simpson, who chatted while he checked out Philadelphia-bred Hard Spun. "We had some horses together back in California."
Simpson, a former Heisman Trophy winner, said he was friends with Tiago jockey Mike Smith, and that the horse's bloodlines make him a favorite pick for the NFL Hall of Famer. Tiago is the half brother of Giacomo, the 2005 longshot winner.
"I'm kind of going with him right now, even though I like Hard Spun," Simpson said. "He's been training well."
OK, the last part here is worth the newsprint/bandwidth.
Simpson, whose book "If I Did It" was canceled last year, might run into a familiar face when he's at Saturday's race: Queen Elizabeth II.
OK, the two have never really met. But Simpson played Officer Nordberg in the "The Naked Gun" movie that featured a plot to assassinate the queen at a California Angels baseball game. The plot was foiled by dimwitted police detective Lieutenant Frank Drebin, played by actor Leslie Nielsen.
"We kind of treated her bad in "The Naked Gun." I think she'll be treated a little better here," Simpson said, laughing. "I think I better avoid her."
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