It’s always boneheaded when pro athletes get busted on drug charges, but the way Grizzlies’ guard Damon Stoudamire got caught was downright ridiculous. Stoudamire was arrested at the Tucson airport because some weed fell out of his pocket as he was going through security! Oops, how did that get there? Stoudamire has [...]
LeBron James is causing quite a stir in Cleveland, where he’s openly professing his support of the Yankees over the hometown Indians. It’s true that he’s been a Yankees fan for some time now, and I don’t so much mind him sticking with his team, but the problem has been his open flaunting of [...]
Last Saturday, Lakers forward Kwame Brown decided it would be a good idea to get in the car with his buddy Charles Warren, who was drunk and had a suspended license. No big deal, we’ll just cruise down the wrong way of a one-way street — what’s the worst that can happen? Well, [...]
Stephen Jackson of the Golden State Warriors has already been suspended for the first 7 games of the season. That was due to a boneheaded act of firing a gun in the air at a strip club in Indianapolis, for which he pleaded guilty to criminal recklessness (a felony). So what better way [...]
You’d think former NBA stars would be more careful with their tax returns, but not The Tractor! Robert Traylor was sentenced to 3 years probation on Friday for preparing a false tax return. What did Traylor do wrong? Well, just hiding the properties of his cousin, a convicted drug dealer! Traylor [...]
Ex-Oklahoma State star and former NBA player Byron Houston will be spending the next 4 years in jail. This summer, Houston was arrested for indecent exposure and was placed on probation. Well, a woman drove by his car in Oklahoma City and saw Byron Houston at the intersection, pleasuring himself! His attorneys say Houston suffers [...]
Quite a wild story developing with this one — Isiah Thomas jumped on the sexual harrassment bandwagon for his strange relations with Madison Square Garden executive Anucha Brown Sanders. Over the course of a few months, Thomas went from calling her names like “bitch” and “ho” (and he even distinguishes levels of offense for [...]
NBA Commissioner David Stern has reinstated referee Joey Crawford. You may remember Crawford from going off on Tim Duncan last April for no apparent reason — Crawford T’d up Duncan for laughing on the bench, and then he challenged Duncan to fight in the middle of the game! Classic stuff there. Duncan [...]
Controversy hit the NBA big time when the FBI helped flush out the fact that referee Tim Donaghy bet on games that he called the last 2 seasons, even making calls during the games that might ultimately affect the outcome of one team covering the spread! He resigned on July 9, pleading guilty on August [...]
Kobe made headlines for all the wrong reasons in the summer of 2003 when he was accused of raping a woman in his hotel room in Colorado. The oft-idolized NBA star had to admit to having sex with the woman, but adamantly insisted that the encounter was consensual. The case obviously tore into his credibility as [...]
