His style especially has grown more experimental, flamboyant even. Still, I never saw this revelation coming: "Three years ago I was like, 'Man, I kind of want to paint my toenails black,' " Wade tells me. We're on-set at a Manhattan photo studio right now his feet are covered by striped Paul Smith socks and size 14 Jordans. "At first I thought, 'Nah, I can't do that. They're going to kill me.' But eventually I decided to try it." He went to Miami's Mondrian hotel and asked a shocked pedicurist to give him the Marilyn Manson treatment."
Later I was on vacation in the Bahamas with LeBron," Wade says, laughing, "and when he saw my toes he was like, 'Something is seriously wrong with you.' But eventually Bron was like, 'You know what? You're crazy, but that's just you.' When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care."
On Saturday, Denver Nuggets player Al Harrington took the Bugsy Challenge at Burger Joint at Flamingo Las Vegas. The Bugsy Challenge consists of a burger with six one-third-pound burger patties, six types of cheese (American, cheddar, pepper jack, fresh house-made mozzarella, Swiss and panko-crusted deep-fried provolone), chorizo, sautéed mushrooms, black and tan onion rings, three strips of applewood smoked bacon, three strips of cayenne peppered bacon and a fried egg, all oozing with Burger Joint’s special pink peppercorn aioli.Somewhere, Adam Richman is warming up in the bullpen to take on that burger.
The full Bugsy Challenge weighs in at 4.5 pounds and is on the house for anyone who can finish it. Harrington was given 45 minutes to complete the challenge and unfortunately did not succeed. The NBA player is the fifth person to attempt the challenge and the fifth person to be thwarted by it since it launched at the beginning of August.
A source tells Wetpaint Entertainment that last fall, a representative of E!, the network that airs the many Kardashian reality shows, approached the New York Knicks to find out if Danilo Gallinari, the studly Italian who was then a forward on the team, would be interested in dating Kim. According to our source, both E! and Kim were interested in having her date a big New York athlete for the debut season of Kourtney & Kim Take New York, and the Knicks were their first choice. (The show, which first aired in January 2011, begins its second season next month.) Gallinari — then 22 to Kim’s 30 — was told that such a move would be good for his career and that he would garner lots of media exposure. Gallinari declined, saying he would be happy to meet Kim but wasn't interested in dating or being a reality-show star. E! had “no comment” when we called them.Sadly, we have to live with the knowledge that in some alternate universe "Big Cock" is married to Kim Kardashian.
According to a news release, the Paul team applied and auditioned for the show, hosted by Steve Harvey, just as any family can.The episode is set to be seen by most markets next Tuesday.
Family members participating in the game show will be Chris, brother C.J., dad Charles, mom Robin and aunt Rhonda.
The opposing team will be the O'Haras from Revere, Mass. They'll play for $100,000 and a car.
We're all used to Elisabeth Hasselbeck tackling political issues on the popular talk show “The View,” and we've seen her many a time get heated during discussions on hot topics. But this week we got a glimpse of the “sporty chick” side of Elisabeth Hasselbeck and co-host Sherri Shepherd.Just in case you care, here are some other pictures of Sherri and Elisabeth wearing Celtics and Knicks jerseys on recent episodes:
Sherri and Elisabeth came out on Monday wearing Oklahoma City NBA jerseys - a statement to NBA owners and players that it's time for the lockout to end. These girls want the players and owners to get things figured out so we can have a NBA season!
And taking the protest a step further, they've introduced a segment on the show called "Bad Basketball" - Sherri and Elisabeth are going to make viewers watch them play basketball on the show every day until the lockout is resolved.
The Bucks guard is getting a delayed start to his third NBA campaign, but he believes he will be playing in Milwaukee this season.(Courtesy of Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
"Of course," he said. "They are going to come to an agreement sooner or later. The world can't go without basketball; the world is shaped like a basketball."
A team of treasure hunters led by an American former basketball team owner claims to have discovered two ships from Drake's fleet lying on the seabed off the coast of Panama. The 195-ton Elizabeth and 50-ton Delight were scuttled shortly after the naval hero's death from dysentery, aged about 55, in 1596. It is thought that Drake's final resting place may be nearby.(Courtesy of The Daily Telegraph)
Pat Croce, a former president of the Philadelphia 76ers and self-professed "pirate aficionado", embarked on a search for the ships after researching a book on the latter part of Drake's career, as a privateer plundering Spanish ships in the New World.
Mr Croce, 56, described the discovery as "pretty wild", saying that after several days of searching in murky waters, the team suddenly got lucky. “It’s been truly miraculous,” Mr Croce told The Daily Telegraph. “You set yourself impossible goals in life but to find these two ships has been amazing.
Earlier in October, New York Knicks star Amare Stoudemire pitched to a handful of major networks a half-hour scripted comedy that he is developing with producers Jeff Kwatinetz and Happy Walters, who is Stoudemire's agent and president of Rogue Sports, Relativity Media's sports business.No word yet on what the show is about but we'll keep you updated when we find out.
Jeff Marks of sports business consultancy Premier Partnerships says that the projects are important for developing athletes' brands. "They aren't doing this for free, but at the end of the day, Amare Stoudemire doesn't need an extra endorsement deal or two," Marks says. "I think it is about the personal brand."
He has played with childhood pal Durant and Wall in exhibition games across the country and also has incorporated elements of yoga, karate and, yes, ballet into summer workouts intended to make his body stronger, more limber and help ensure a long, productive career. He has dropped about 15 pounds after playing last season at 240 pounds.
"I don't really dance," he said. "I do it for the stretching."(Courtesy of The Star Tribune)
Does he own a tutu?
"No, no, no, no," he replied. "I wear shorts and a shirt."
The City of Memphis may seek payback as National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern threatens to cancel more games in the standoff between NBA owners and players.
The Memphis City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 18, passed a resolution sponsored by Council Chairman Myron Lowery that instructs the council’s attorney, who also works on behalf of the City of Memphis, to “explore all options” for recovering money the city may have lost because of game cancellations. These may include a lawsuit by the city, a response that the council’s attorney believes would be the first of its kind by an NBA franchise community.I'm still trying to figure out if a lawsuit has any basis here but considering the strange things we've seen in the world of sports recently, it wouldn't surprise me if it happens.
