Re: Some interesting bits I'd like to share. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>To get you inspired, here is a peek at what your friends in the NBA have been doing politically. (Here is an older post with some similar listings.) This time I decided just to focus on the big money--people who have given $5,000 or more. There are dozens of small NBA contributors, the vast majority of which are from players or coaches (working alphabetically: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Red Auerbach, Charles Barkley, Larry Brown, John Chaney, Joe Dumars etc.) to Democrats. Although it must be noted, Clyde Drexler's lone two grand went to the G-O-P.Alonzo Mourning $25,000 100% Democratic Lute Olson $66,555 100% Republican (Including a good chunk to Rick Santorum, even though Olson is not from Pennsylvania. Olson's second wife works in Republican politics.) Vlade Divac $10,000 100% Democratic Michael Jordan $18,000 72% Democratic, 28% Special Interest George Karl $7,000 71% Democratic, 29% Republican [Isiah Thomas $5,000 100% DemocraticDavid Stern $829,620 98% Democratic, 2% Special Interest</div><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>After last week's locker room brawl between Wizards big men Brendan Haywood and Etan Thomas, it became pretty clear that the "Brendan Haywood coming off the bench" experiment would be short-lived and the best move would be to trade the former Tar Heel. BULLETS FEVER has opened up the floor to the fans to create a good trade for the unhappy 7-footer. Our favorite is a really boring one -- Haywood for the Bucks' Dan Gadzuric. It's not the sexiest trade in the world, but the Wizards need more athleticism up front and the Bucks need more muscle. ? Most fans are angry at the league's new zero-tolerance policy, but few are doing anything about it. That's not the case with NEED 4 SHEED, which has started an online petition to Stern in hopes that he'll "SAVE SHEED and the game of Basketball as we know it." By the way, Rasheed Wallace has four technical fouls in the Pistons' first seven games.</div>"The new microphone we use will be very slippery, but [the NBA] has signed off on it. It'll be hard to get used to, especially the stand-up opening, and we're holding on to that microphone with a firm grip. We'll deal with it." -- Marv Albert, TNT's lead play-by-play announcer, to the Sacramento Bee <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>After two weeks on the market, Ron Artest's debut album, My World, has sold a whopping 460 copies. That's right, 460 copies. Even the much-maligned Kevin Federline sold 6,485 copies of his debut album, Playing with Fire. Does that mean K-Fed is 14 times more popular than Artest?</div>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...ters/index.html
Re: Some interesting bits I'd like to share. Well, at least the Marv Albert comment was slightly funny.
