Amare Stoudemire
The NBA has always been full of stars who aren't afraid to make unique fashion choices. With dress code restrictions and uniform violations constantly getting more strict, player's have turned to eye wear to stand out over the years. This nice little chart monitors the evolution of safety goggles in the NBA from George Mikan in the 1950's all the way through to Russell Westbrook's current post-game spectacles. Via Heading for the Exits ...
The high stakes world of sports can bring out very strong emotions in otherwise totally level-headed people. Combine those wild emotional swings with the immediacy of the Internet and you often wind up with a very enjoyable collection of irrational reactions forever preserved in screen grabs. Fair or not, fans have always gotten away with acting like total lunatics. The guys who actually win or lose, however, don’t get quite as much leeway. Here’s a collection of our favorite moments of athletes, owners and even the team publicists acting just like the rest of us do when we’re watching the game in our ...
It's well established by now that being a prominent athlete on Twitter has a substantial downside. Any public failing (and the failings of athletes tend to be public) invites hundreds of thousands of Internet folks, emboldened by relative anonymity and ease of communication, to douse the athlete with whatever hateful balderdash they please, so long as it's under 140 characters. This came up a couple weeks ago when Jon Rauch of the Mets had a rough outing on the mound and broadcasted the backlash, retweeting all the vile mentions he received. It surfaced again over the weekend, when Amar'e Stoudemire (who hasn't even had the opportunity to fail in more than a month) took exception to a ...
What a disaster the Knicks are right now. It's pretty amazing how quickly this became the conventional wisdom, the giddiness of a batshit regular season erased by two ugly losses, a crushing season-ending injury to Iman Shumpert, and, mostly, a fire extinguisher brutally attacking Amar'e Stoudemire's left hand. Suddenly, the Knicks aren't just behind 2-0 in a playoff series - they're a disaster. There are calls to blow up the whole team, to trade Amar'e Stoudemire for magic beans and two cute kittens, to sign Jason Kidd/Steve Nash/Dwight Howard/Howard the Duck. We feel caution is in order. In our minds, the problem is not that the Knicks are falling apart; the problem is that they're ...
