Posts Tagged ‘Team USA’

LeBron Guarantees Gold For Team USA

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

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You damn right. I said gold medal.
LeBron “Illustrated Man” James has thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the basketball-playing world by telling them they are playing for the silver and bronze because Team “Dream Team 2.0″ USA [...]

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LeBron James = Illustrated Man

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

As an admitted tattoo aficionado, I can honestly say I fully support the idea of athletes rocking the ink. There have been countless galleries of athletes and their skin art and this isn’t an attempt to recreate that. No, what we have is a surprised blogger because he didn’t know LeBron’s upper body [...]

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USA Basketball - Gold or Bust

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Not to be outdone by the NFL, Team USA opened their “training camp” as well as they prepare for the upcoming 2008 Olympic games (and their Friday exhibition match-up with Canada). In what should be no surprise, Kobe, LeBron and company are preparing like anything less than the gold medal will be a failure, [...]

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Team USA Men’s Basketball Roster Set

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

As expected, Chris Paul — or Tayshaun Prince, depending on who you ask — was awarded the final spot on the Men’s Team USA Basketball squad which will be trying to win the gold medal at the Olympics in about a month or so. The roster, which was finalized and officially released today, doesn’t [...]

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Taking A Crack At The USA Basketball Roster

Friday, June 20th, 2008

While the official USA Basketball Men’s Senior Team roster comes out on Monday, I figured since today is Friday, I’d take a crack at guessing who’s on the roster out and then checking it for accuracy on Monday. Sound like a plan? OK, here’s our shot at the final 12:
1. Kobe Bryant
2. LeBron [...]

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More On LeBron’s Tipping Habits

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Last month, I featured a post about LeBron James and his apparently abhorrent tipping habits. The story goes something like this, LeBron and a group of friends went to a upscale steakhouse and ran up a tab in the neighborhood of $800. According to the (whiny) report, LeBron’s resulting gratuity was slightly insulting [...]

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