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I have noticed quite a few people have been googling ‘Kareem+Cancer’ and ending up here, so when I saw that the basketball legend was discussing his illness with the great Olbermann tonight, I naturally decided to steal the content and post it here for my legion of accidental fans to enjoy. I know, I know, I’m the real hero here…so please return often out of gratitude, won’t you? And, by the way, those ads to the left don’t click themselves.
This is kind of a long, boring story which I have little interest in typing out, but the gist is that MJ’s eldest son Jeff Jordan, who quit the Illinois hoops team and then changed his mind recently was suspended by the NCAA for the first two games this season for playing in an unsanctioned AAU event this past summer, when he wasn’t even officially a NCAA student athlete.
Who cares? Really. The bigger issue to me is the douchey entitlement issues of the Jordan boys. One flat refuses to wear his school’s official apparel and the other seems to decide at whim whether or not to grace the Illini squad with his presence. I would say that these kids are in line for a huge dose of reality when they get out of college, but let’s face it…that’s not even close to true. Marcus and Jeff Jordan will continue doing whatever they please for the rest of their lottery-winning lives and assholes like me will persist in filling up the blogosphere with their exploits. I need to find a quiet place to cry now. (cbssports)
A federal appeals court in Chicago ruled yesterday that Michael Vick can keep $16.2 million in bonuses which his former team, the Atlanta Falcons, sought to recover when he was imprisoned on a dog fighting conviction.
There’s a joke in there somewhere about scratch off lottery tickets, but my racist chapeau has been at the haberdashery for a couple of weeks, so I won’t try to figure it out. That dough would have gone a long way at the Leavenworth commissary though, huh? I wonder if Vick still owes anyone for protecting him ‘on the inside’? It will probably be in Vick’s sure-to-be-upcoming autobiography. (reuters)
