It looks like Shaq won’t be busting through anymore doors to fight crime—legally, at least—and he has his rapping skills to thank for that. Fresh off his not-so-fresh lyrical bitchslap of Kobe Bryant, Shaq has been asked to give...

So, um… what exactly are they feeding the columnists over at the LA Times? Because whatever it is, it’s gotten their group feisty over this LA-Boston NBA Finals match-up. First, Bill Plascke decides to call out the fans who...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA Finals:The Celtics show the Lakers how to come back from 24 points down, beating LA, 97-91. They’re up 3-1 in the best of seven series and look to close out the series...

Tim Donaghy, remember him? He was the NBA official that was busted for betting on the games he officiated. Well, by strict coincidence his sentencing is coming up at the same time as the NBA Finals and he filed...

When LA Times columnist Bill Plaschke decided to wonder out loud whether Paul Pierce’s Game one knee injury was authentic, he probably understood what he was getting into with Celtics fans. “How dare the Angeleno columnist question the authenticity...

Pau Gasol is no dummy—we know this. So when we came across these photos from a Don Julio Tequila tasting party, we wondered if Gasol knew exactly what starts tomorrow. It’s the NBA Finals! Does he know about the...

While we’ve been to a few Laker games in our lifetime, we’ve never really been within spitting distance of either bench (ugh, that Elden Campbell really irked us sometimes back in the day). That’s because we’re obviously not Jack...

As the seconds ticked off last night’s 100-92 Lakers’ victory, propelling them into the Finals, Los Angeles’ Sasha Vujacic made a three-pointer that had a Butterfly Effect that was felt all across the nation, not to mention in front...

The NBA has realized that their games have been a little… um… overly dramatic over the past few years and is going to start fining players who egregiously flop during games next season. Like the Spurs don’t have enough...

It’s no secret that out of all the trades that went down this year, the most significant may have been the one that brought Pau Gasol from Memphis to the Lakers. But what if things had gone differently? You...

The Denver Nuggets’ Eduardo Najera has created a solid, if unspectacular, career playing basketball in the NBA for the past eight seasons. So why does the Chihuahua-born baller grace Gatorade bottles and get to hang out with one of...

For us, celebrities answering phones during telethons got played out after Ken Burns yelled at someone during an ‘06 PBS pledge drive for his Baseball documentary. So when we heard the Miami Heat were having members of their basketball...

After two years being the big men on the Stanford campus and hooking up with co-eds like pro golfer Michele Wie, Brook and Robin Lopez have decided to go pro and enter next year’s NBA draft. The twin towers...

If you were to ask us why the NCAA tournament is so exciting, we’d have to say the lower-seeded teams (also disparagingly known as “Cinderellas”) turning their worlds upside down by beating their higher-seeded rivals. Sure, that’s conventional wisdom,...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night March Madness: Davidson’s obscurity is no more as they walk the fine line of being a legitimate team and a “Cinderella.” Where do they stand on your bracket? Davidson 74, Georgetown 70. [Yahoo]...

A motivated Shaquille O’Neal is a dangerous man. So it’d beehove most of the Western Conference to tell Bill Walton to shut his yap about Shaq being done, or else he’s going to have to do something drastic with...

If you ask even the average, semi-interested basketball fan what they look for during the NBA’s All-Star weekend, it’s the dunks (us? Vanessa Bryant sightings). But are gone the days when high flyers like Kenny ‘Sky’ Walker, Dominique Wilkins...

Now that the league has had a week to digest the Pau Gasol trade—and have the shock it created worn off by the Shaq deal—some people outside of the blogosphere and newspaper game are now calling out Memphis for...

Mitch Kupchak has been earning his paycheck lately. He just pulled off a major move, getting former Rookie of the Year, All-Star and Spaniard Pau Gasol from Memphis for the underachieving-is-too-good-of-a-word-for-him Kwame Brown and some other pieces that will...

Here’s the fastest goal in La Liga history, courtesy of Valladolid’s Joseba Llorente. And if were to do what analysts do when a guy hits three home runs on opening day, we’re going to calculate this game’s final combined...

Here’s Edison Miranda knocking David Banks into the ropes… literally. We love that Banks is so dazed, the ref has to come over after that and guide Banks onto the stool. Hey ref, how’s about you call that fight...

The closet—hider of skeletons, shoes and secret lovers. We’re sure that’s what Glen Rice’s estranged wife Christina Fernandez collectively had in hers when the former NBA All Star came in to her house and decided he didn’t want to...

No matter how many times it’s shown to us, we can never stop laughing feeling bad for the skateboarder bleeding profusely from his head after attempting a crazy jump. [IFilm] Ever wanted to get a North American Soccer League...

We hope this trip to the local San Antonio Target is an attempt by Tony Parker and Eva Longoria to make it seem like everything’s normal after their… um… recent difficulties. But guess what, ParkOria, there aren’t any paparazzi...

New Jersey Nets star Jason Kidd apparently needs to keep his hands to himself, according to a lawsuit filed in New York by “A plus-size fashion model.” According to the plaintiff, the Net couldn’t stop grabbing her big ass...

With ParkOria denials of marital doom coming at a furious pace, a certain piece of damning evidence came to light. Dun-dun-duuuunn: text messages released by the home wrecker. Yes, the shorthand of the millennium might be coming back to...

If asked, which would Laker Kobe Bryant admit to wanting to sink more: his marriage or his ball club? Because it seems like he’s done pretty damaging work on both ends for the past couple of years. But just...

This clip rules, not only because Steve Nash shows off his recently-acquired chipped tooth, but because of Michele Tafoya acting as if he just grew a second head right in front of her. [YouTube] German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn got...

The unholy union of Eva Longoria and Tony Parker seems to be on its last legs. That’s because a new set has entered Tony’s life-the set belonging to model Alexandra Paressant. According to the X17 web site (the same...

The last time the Cleveland Cavaliers’ wunderkind LeBron James came off the bench was during the 2004 Olympics. But since coming back from his sprained finger coincided with contract-holdout Anderson Varejo’s return to action, Bron-Bron decided to be a...

ESPN, the same network who can’t go fifteen minutes without talking about the Patriots or Red Sox, has decided they’d take the Boston sports scene down a notch. On their website’s Page 2 section Friday, ESPN.com decided to ask...

Here’s Nicolas Anelka of EPL’s Bolton this past weekend making the same boneheaded play you’ve seen before. But then you read something like this, and maybe it’s not so boneheaded (cha-ching!)[YouTube] Ashley Young of Aston Villa decided to give...

So why are the police releasing this video of St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa getting busted in a DUI so many months after? Apparently someone forgot to send Palm Beach police an autographed photo of Albert Pujols. [Sox...

Miami Heat coach Pat Riley has kicked guard Smush Parker (seen here during his Laker days) off the team for assaulting a parking valet over a $12 ticket. Man, parking attendants and athletes just don’t mix, do they? Police...

Sports are such a diversion consisting of numbers and minutiae-first downs, shots on goal, cheerleader busy sizes-sometimes we forget what an overreaching diversion they are. The ability to share a beer or conversation with someone because they cheer for...

The Lakers’ Lamar Odom and Luke Walton are no strangers to the bong, but they were pretty clear-eyed for this play. Kobe who? Oh yeah, Kobe Bryant, the best baller in the NBA. But still, this bounce pass was...

You know that can of bug spray that the Yankees used to keep gnats off the fat back of Joba Chamberlain during the playoffs? Now you can buy it! [ESPN] Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes is retiring...

The United Nations is usually in the role as a preventer of cruel and unusual punishment. But last night, UN representatives were the victims of it as they had to watch the New York Knicks—as a guest of team...

In the past two weeks, every other sports magazine cover has highlighted the supposed new basketball rivalry between college UCLA and USC. Well, this news adds even more heat. Percy Romeo Miller, aka rapper Lil’ Romeo and son of...

Detroit was named the most dangerous city in America today, but any athletes playing there should be happy they can be employed in the U.S. Tony Harris, a former college basketball standout at WSU, was found dead in Brazil,...

Does Phil Jackson need a time-out in his Zen-meditation room? It looks like the four-year Lakers coach lost it after a loss to San Antonio and decided to chide his team for the lack of, um, heterosexual blocking fundamentals....

After New York Knick point guard Stephon Marbury went missing from the team yesterday, a lot of speculation went into what caused to semi-star to go into exile. Did three years of the Knicks sucking so bad finally make...

A-Rod’s not greedy, he’s just trying to feed his family… really expensive food. [YouTube, via Deadspin] The Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry was backed by his team against drug allegations—after he passed the drug and lie detector tests....

Yeah, we’d like to inform the guy holding the plastic that TiVo was created for moments like this. [The Offside Rules] The legendary Orange Bowl stadium in Miami is going to be demolished and its fixtures-even the urinals-sold off...

The San Antonio Spurs may have the Latino vote, but they’ve been lacking excitement. Manu Ginobli brings some to the table by dunking over 7’6” Yao Ming. [YouTube] The L.A. Galaxy can’t get enough Europeans over here. Former Chelsea...

Dallas Cowboys’ Tony Romo: Pro Bowl quarterback, female-celebrity sexer, referee-in-training? [You Tube] The Beijing Olympics has made Chinese citizens so proud that over 3,500 babies have been named Aoyun, which means Olympics in Mandarin. Luckily for the kids, China...

We don’t know what surprised us more about Saturday’s Lakers/Suns tilt—the 30 point shellacking L.A. put on Phoenix, or this Jerry Springer-esque exchange between the team’s two head coaches, Mike D’Antoni and Phil Jackson....

A reader sent us this list of reasons Latinos should root for the San Antonio Spurs to repeat as NBA Champs from Ken Burns Hates Mexicans (heh). While we don’t feel that Tony Parker’s marriage to Eva Longoria should...