NBA fans pining for Ricky Rubio to toss an off-the-backboard alley-oop to Blake Griffin may get their wish granted well before the Spanish point guard ever becomes an All Star. Per ESPN, a new format will be implemented for this year’s Rookie-Sophomore Challenge, allowing first and second year players to play on the same team together. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobe Bryant’s rocky relationship with the City of Brotherly Love took another interesting turn last night. In front of a packed Wells Fargo Center, the Laker brought his career scoring total to 28,601 points, moving him past former teammate Shaquille O’Neal for fifth all-time on the NBA’s scoring list. Read the rest of this entry »

Porn Actress Tori Black Arrested After Breast Milk Fight [Film Drunk]

Pat Sajak: I Hosted ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ Drunk [Warming Glow]

Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Preps Album [Rolling Stone]

Teenage Girl Calls Cops To Report Mom Having Loud Sex [MSN]

A-Trak’s 10 Favorite Sample Flips [Ego Trip]

Snoop Dogg To Kris Humphries: “You Shouldn’t Have Tried To Wife The B***h” [TUD]

Shaquille O’Neal on Whether or Not Kobe’s Divorce Will Affect His Game [Vibe]

Top Spring Outerwear on Mr. Porter [Details]

This Week’s NBA Action In Pictures [With Leather]

Georgia’s Waiting List For HIV Drugs Is Longest In Nation [Creative Loafing]

Watch the Worst Church Singer of All Time [The FW]

Google Changes Privacy Policy [CNN]

When It’s Okay For Men to Cry [GQ]

Congressman Regrets Knocking Michelle Obama’s “Large Posterior” [CBS]

Shaq Will Compete At Wrestlemania [With Leather]

Kid Rock, Detroit Church Donate Gifts To Needy [AP] Read the rest of this entry »

Low key, the Shaq/Kobe era was one of the greatest and most debate-inducing in basketball history. Their rivalry, however authentic, managed to achieve something many wondered if the NBA could pull off following Michael Jordan’s retirement in 1998 and bitter lockout later that year that spilled into 1999: reel in the casual fan. Read the rest of this entry »

And with one tweet from Darren Rovell, the world’s greatest post game show (and top three pregame) just got that much better. The Big Social Security Check, better known as Shaquille O’Neal, appears to be taking his legendary personality over to TNT to presumably join Read the rest of this entry »

Witty and charismatic as ever, today Shaq officially announced his retirement from the NBA. Of course, that simple Twitter post could never be enough. He knocked out the somber formalities and acknowledgments, all the while peppering in his typical, sarcastic quotables throughout. Read the rest of this entry »

After a long and storied career, Shaquille O’Neal has decided to call it quits on his basketball career. As unusual as always, The Big Aristotle decided to use social networking to announce that he was leaving the game, posting a short video message on the website Tout via his Twitter account. “We did it. Nineteen years baby,” Shaq shared. Read the rest of this entry »

Whitney

Nicki Minaj Doesn’t Mind Us Talking About Her Ass [Vibe]

Is Locomotive Curt the Next Big White Boy Rapper? [BroBible]

Rewind: Top 10 Ugliest Mistresses [TUD] Read the rest of this entry »

Whenever September 13 or March 9 roll around, it has become custom to expect a slew of articles, videos and everything in between paying respect to Hip Hop’s fallen giants: Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. The concept has been beaten into the ground long ago, but it serves as a true testament to the unwillingness of pop culture to let go. Read the rest of this entry »

Karen La Colombiana

The 11 Best (And One Worst) Jay-Z and Kanye West Collaborations [PopEater]

Ryan Leslie’s Stolen Laptop Found, Man Set To Claim $1 Million Reward [HHW]

The Growing Cult Of Cassie [Guardian]

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Sued For Fight That Happened 11 Years Ago [The Urban Daily]

Clifford Taught You Well, Tiny [C&D] Read the rest of this entry »

Kel

Natalie Portman Knocked Up & Engaged [GOT]

Diddy To Pay To Fix Model’s Torched Hair [TUD]

Yelawolf x Complex: The “Mantras” Interview & Video [Complex]

Lil Mama Gets Booed Off Stage [TRU] Read the rest of this entry »

Although everybody is still side-eyeing Shaq for his mid-life crisis engagement to Hoopz, yesterday was Halloween so it made it acceptable to stare. But that didn’t mean your retinas were safe from being burned. Dressed as…well…I couldn’t really tell you what the f*ck is going on here except for that love is blind and it grows an unkempt beard when it’s happy. Read the rest of this entry »

Shaquille O’Neal & Hakeem Olajuwon battling during the ’95 Finals, aka the non-Mike years. Read the rest of this entry »

My job here as a curator of words relies on, well, words. But at this point, I’m speechless. What in the Tom Hanks is going on in this video? Where the hell is normally iron-fisted David Stern to put a stop to incidents like this? Read the rest of this entry »