Tag Archives: basketball
-
This Day In Sports History (September 21st) — United States Dream Team
It was on this day in 1991 that U.S.A. Basketball announced the “Dream Team” for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Ten of the best players in the NBA were named to the team, with two more added in May of 1992. Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, [...]
-
Put Your Fantasy Sports Knowledge To Good Use At FantasyFactor.com
Stop me if this sounds like a familiar story. You’ve spent weeks crafting the perfect draft strategy. You’ve studied all the injury charts, the updates, the rumors and match ups. When draft day arrives you execute your strategy to perfection, making ungodly value picks and getting all the sleepers that you were targeting. Excitement for [...]
-
Wizards Guard John Wall Schools A Hotshot High School Prospect In One-On-One (Video)
When you’re a big-time college basketball recruit, it’s easy for your ego to get a little inflated. After all, you’re always talking to people who tell you how great you are—coaches, recruiters, fellow students, your mom, you name it. So what’s the best way to knock a big-name recruit down a peg? Have him go [...]
-
Montenegro Defeats Serbia With Awesome Half-Court Buzzer-Beater (Video)
The 2012 Summer Olympics may be over, but there’s still some big-time international basketball going on—specifically, qualification for the 2013 FIBA European Basketball Championships. And over the weekend, a Group A qualifier between Balkan neighbors Serbia and Montenegro had a thrilling finish. The favored Serbs went up 67-54 with just 4:55 left on the clock, [...]
-
Mayor of Phoenix Breaks His Nose Practicing with WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury (Video)
We all know politicians like a good photo op—you know, a chance to shake hands and kiss babies. It makes them seem more human, like the rest of us. And these days, pro sports teams offer politicians some of the best photo ops one can buy. However, the really good politicians don’t settle for demonstrating an [...]
-
Stat Line Of The Night — 8/12/12 — Kevin Durant
The USA men’s basketball team entered the final day of the 2012 Olympic Games with a perfect 7-0 record, but despite their dominating performance up to that point, a loss to Spain in Sunday’s final would still make their visit to London an epic failure. With all of that pressure staring them in the face, [...]
-
Google’s Homepage Has A Cool Kayak Game
As if Google hasn’t already provided us all with enough through their incredibly efficient and extensive search engine, throughout these Olympics Games they have decided to give us even more, via their series of addictive Google Doodle Olympic Games, which allow you to play a different Olympic sport each day before you get on with [...]
-
France’s Nicolas Batum Punches Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro In The Groin (Video)
France was eliminated from the 2012 Olympic men’s basketball tournament earlier today after losing their quarterfinal game to Spain by a score of 66-59. And while this may have been the last that we will see of this French team in London, they certainly left their mark… Unfortunately for Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro, that so-called [...]
-
TNT Should Hire Irish Basketball Announcer Timmy McCarthy (Video)
It sure would be nice to be at the 2012 Summer Olympics in person, but let’s face it. Not many people have the time or money to fly halfway around the world to watch sports for two weeks. For this reason, the announcers are especially important when you watch the Olympics on television. They need [...]
-
LeBron James Flops With 30-Point Lead Over Nigeria (Video)
Talk about having no mercy! We already knew that LeBron James was more than willing to flop all over a basketball court in order to get a foul call, but is he capable of doing that sort of thing with a 30-point lead against a far inferior Nigerian men’s basketball team? He sure is! At [...]
-
Stat Line Of The Night — 8/2/12 — Team USA Basketball
I was going to award the “Stat Line of the Night” for Thursday, August 2, 2012 to Carmelo Anthony after his 37 points and 10 three-pointers helped him break the Team USA single-game scoring and three-point records in under 15 minutes of action, but it was almost impossible to overlook the incredible statistical performance put [...]
-
Kobe Bryant’s Wife Not Too Happy About Those Pics Of Him Partying Without A Shirt
Did you know Kobe Bryant and his ridiculously hot wife Vanessa Bryant have patched things up? I didn’t. I thought they were getting a divorce. And it made sense, really, given the whole “cheating” and “being accused of rape” thing. But apparently, even though all the divorce papers were finalized this spring after Vanessa filed [...]
-
Kobe Bryant Signs Autographs Tunisian Player’s Shoe Following Olympic Basketball Beating (Video)
Question: Other than the final result, how does a basketball player know when he’s a cut above his opponents? Answer: When one of your opponents asks you for an autograph. What am I talking about? Well, let’s start at the beginning. Yesterday, the USA men’s basketball team played their second game of the 2012 Summer [...]
-
Basketball Pump Prank Makes People Think They’re Watching A Sexual Act In Public (Video)
We’ve already told you today how the perfectly innocent-looking 2012 Olympic mascots have been viewed by some people as, um, less than innocent. Well, here’s another story about how perfectly innocent, totally not perverted activities can sometimes be misinterpreted. Internet sketch comedy troupe “Sketch Empire” recently did a little bit in which two people—sometimes two [...]
-
Bulgarian Fan Faceplants While Celebrating U16 Women’s Basketball Victory (Video)
For most of us, it was hard to get excited about the Under-16 Division B Women’s European Basketball Championships taking place in Estonia over the past couple of weeks. Much of that lack of excitement probably has something to do with the fact that few of us knew this tournament was even talking place. However, [...]
