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[Video] Bryant Gumbel evokes slavery: says NBA Commissioner David Stern like ‘plantation overseer’
Ouch, you know things are getting ugly in the NBA Labor dispute when even milquetoast-ass Bryant Gumbel is playing the race card like this!
Read more: LA Times Blog | CBS Sports
Hank Williams Jr. Monday Night Football Theme Song Yanked After He Compares President Obama to Hitler
Meant to post this before MNF tonight with a pithy comment about who’s gonna ask us if we’re ready for some football now that Hank Williams Jr. got kicked off of ‘Monday Night Football’ by ESPN but I fell asleep after the tryptophan kicked in from eating left-over Thanksgiving turkey this afternoon. Williams is a f-cking NUT though. I mean, hit the jump for the original video of his full appearance on ‘Fox & Friends’ on Oct. 3 that created the initial firestorm if you missed it or aren’t full convinced.
Related:
– Hank Jr. writes song dissing ‘Fox & Friends’ and ESPN. He night be a country cat but he got his response record cut and ready to roll with hip-hop speed & efficiency!
[News] Police charge 26-year-old London, ON man over NHL banana-tossing incident
Since I’m now back in Canada, I feel obliged to pay attention to the national obsession with hockey more than my personal passion would normally warrant. But y’all should know by now, as previous posts have demonstrated, that I’m gonna do it from my own particular perspective here at The Kitchen:
“London Police Chief Brad Duncan speaks at a press conference September 28, 2011, announcing police have charged Chris Moorhouse, a 26-year-old London, Ontario man in the banana toss incident at last week’s Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings exhibition NHL game at the John Labatt Centre.”
CLICK HERE to read the full article and CLICK HERE to watch the CTV News piece on the story.
Related:
In the very same week as this banana-tossing f-ckery though, Wayne Simmonds has been on the other end of a second ugly alleged intolerance incident:
NHL bad boy Sean Avery accuses Simmonds of uttering gay slur: Globe & Mail | Toronto Star
Université de Montréal Business School Students Mock Usain Bolt in Blackface Back-to-School Stunt
In 2011?! Still??! Really??! *Smdh….*
Read the full story HERE from the Toronto Star.
Read some of the comments on this CTV Montreal link about the story HERE. It’s clear we have a long way to go before we’re ever going to reach a post-racial society.
[Video] All of Blake Griffin’s NBA All-Star Dunk Contest Dunks
Opening 360 Dunk:
Windmill Alley-Oop:
Forearm hang dunk:
Dunks over a car while a choir sings “I Believe I Can Fly”:
Lot of chatter around that final dunk but Charles Barkley was right: it wasn’t really all that. Many have groused that he didn’t deserve to win the contest either but with the buzz around this kid coming into the contest because of high-flying antics, I’m not surprised that he did. I don’t keep up with the NBA as much as I’d like to, but they gotta be grooming this kid to be one of the future faces of the league. He’s even made the Clippers relevant! Speaking of which I am going to see the Raps play the Bulls next week thanks to a Christmas gift of tickets form my cuz (thanks, Drew!) which leads me to…
For those of you who think I’m riding Griffin’s nuts a little too hard with this post though, hit the jump for videos of dunks by Javale McGee, Serge Ibaka and the Raptor’s Demar DeRozan :