"tryna ball, money tall, just like yaw ming"

The wait is over! The Expendables comes out today, Friday the 13th.

Here's a little Rambo 4 action to get you warmed up:



Yes yes yes!

Juicy J is back at it again with the low budget, ride around town in your Rolls Royce video. This song is a banger!

Yaw Ming - Yes Yaw, not Yao.



The song is off his new mixtape/sole cd? Cutthroat: The Take Ova

Let Me Address An Issue:

There are rumblings around the Internet that Horace/aka McEnroe is running around talkin mess about me/ aka Becker. I'll admit defeat where defeat did occur. I even had two match points to win the game and lost. However, a devastating foot injury that occurred the night before, substantially limited my ability to be the agile Becker that we all know and love, the type of Becker that usually defeats the American resistance. After a grueling 7-5 loss, I shall seek revenge tonight on the Wimbledon Centre Court grass. And whilst the foot is not 100% healed, no amount of pain will allow me to lose to this pompous jerk of a man named McEnroe! Victory...will be mine!

1 more day until...

The Greatest Action Movie Ever!




Rated R by the MPAA. The reasons?

- Frequent and prolonged portrayals of graphic violence.

- Occasional gory/grotesque images.

- Explicit depictions of decapitation and dismemberment.

- Graphic portrayals of brutality and torture.

- Frequent gun, weapons and hand-to-hand violence , as well as explosions (some blood and detail shown).


USA USA USA !

Tonight at 6pm you can stream an intrasquad scrimmage from USA Basketball on Facebook.

Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=139153186102876&index=1

Should be cool. I noticed on NBA TV they have some stuff scheduled that looks like it might be the same thing, but it says it ends at 7pm, so not completely sure.

TV

New season of The Office starts Sept 23rd. Steve Carell's last season as Dunder Mifflin boss should be a classic. Latest rumor has Danny McBride guesting on the 7th season and possibly replacing Carell. That would be funny as hell.

Hard Knocks started last night. Didn't watch it, but I did DVR it.

Music

Kanye West ft Beyonce and Uncle Charlie Wilson. You have to scroll down on the little widget thing. The song is the last one on the playlist.

yeah

Students, sorry for another delayed absence. There is just not too much happening on a daily basis in sports to fill a blog. But fear not, I have plenty going on outside of the sports.

But first, the sports.

• Will Barton is not going to be eligible to play for the Tigers this year. Cool. The 4th best player in the country not playing. In a way it may be a blessing in disguise. That's one less badass to have to score points, it might open the door for another guy to step up. Too bad it is our best badass scorer...So I imagine we would have been a top 10 preseason team. I think we'll still be Top 25. Right? I have no clue.
• Brett Favre retired, then didn't. He said he'll play if the ankle is good to go. I hope he plays, I like him and I'd like to see him give it one more go.
• Darelle Revis is looking like he'll hold out for the season if necessary. That's stupid. Just play, the money will be there. How can he waste a prime year of his career? The Jets are stacked (even if he doesn't play). Get out there, Revis!
• Tyson Gay beat Usain Bolt in the 100m the other day. I guess that's an upset. Gay sprinting...get it? Gay? Ha.
  
• Shaq was introduced this morning for the Celtics. He said he has 2-3 more years. Umm, hate to break it to you Big Shaq, but...no you don't. No one on that team (minus Rondo) has 2-3 more years. KG, Ray Ray, PP, JO, Shaq...well Pierce probably has some old man minutes in him in a couple years. Either way, Boston might be looking like a retirement home by midseason.
• T-Mac signed with the Pistons for 1 year. He is 31 years old. Kobe is the same age and still unstoppable. Imagine if T-Mac still had knees...or what could have been. Vince Carter made it a little longer than T-Mac before his knees gave out. If Vince and T-Mac could've stayed healthy until 32-33 years old...woo. They would have put up giant point totals. Probably top 20 all-time totals.

Trippin:

For the wife's big 3-0 we went to New York City. Neither of us had ever been. I will say, it was the best trip I've ever been on, everything we did was awesome. The people were friendly and helpful, the hotel was great, our flights were on time. Couldn't have been better. We checked out a lot of cool stuff:

• Top of the Rock - which is a great view from the top of the Rockefeller building (where NBC is). We went at night and the view was spectacular.
• We did the double decker bus tour. Saw all of Manhattan and Brooklyn and got a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. It was very informative and they took us to some cool spots for skyline pictures.
• Went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I'm not real into art stuff, but it's kinda hard not to be impressed when you see Van Gogh, Picasso, Dali etc
• Saw an off Broadway play called Avenue Q. It's people with puppets singing funny crude songs. Sounds lame, but it was really funny...and you could drink in the theater.
• Went to Chinatown and Little Italy, got some fake Rolex watches and the wife got some fancy handbags.
• And we just shopped all down 5th Ave. Niketown was 5 stories. The NBA Store was freakin' sweet. I wanted to buy everything in there. I think they maybe had 5 Grizzlies items in the whole 3 story place...shocker.
  

One thing we did was go to the Bronx and visit the new Yankee Stadium as the Yankees played the Red Sox. A-Rod got hurt in BP and didn't play, but I saw CC Sabathia go 8 innings and Mariano Rivera come in and close out the 9th.

I realize I have stated on this blog that the Yankees are my most hated team in all of sport.

Confession: During the visit to Yankee Stadium...I caught Yankee fever. I don't know man..I don't know why. I'm so conflicted right now. I can't hate a team that put on an amazing experience for me and the wife (who also loved the game and stadium). I even bought a Sabathia shersey, a shirt for the wife, a beer cousy (sp?)...it was ridiculous.

First pic is CC and Big Papi. Second pic is Rivera.



Hoop Family

Lost in the C-League. We are now 1-3. Sheesh. We just played like doo doo last night. And I busted my ankle real bad with like a minute left. I seriously can barely walk...eh.

Expendables opens this Friday!

"you got a system in that junt let it waaaang"

R.I.P Lorenzen Wright

Worst fears were confirmed the other day as they found the body of Memphis Baller Lorenzen Wright shot multiple times.

I don't want to dwell on this for the whole post. It just seems like the longer the murder goes unsolved we might find out some things about our hometown legend that might shine a light on his personal life that no one ever knew about. Things that may help the case, but bury his legacy.

Here is Skinny Pimp's TV's (24's and Wang) ft Yo Gotti, Kia Shine, 8Ball & MJG and cameo from big #42 himself, Lorenzen Wright (throwing up South Memphis, ha). This song is hot! Memphis classic!




Let's go ahead and continue the Memphis rap video day.

Juicy J, Project Pat and French Montana. This song is kinda good. Video sucks.




Other Shizz:

• Laurence Fishbourne's daughter made a porno. She even is quoted as to saying something like Kim Kardashian got her break after she made sex tape. What a dumb shit. Unless daddy doesn't give her money? Who knows, you would think he would not approve of a porno, but maybe he does? Weird.
• Trina reportedly dropped K-Mart and is now with Dez Bryant. Dez making moves. Nice.

I feel like a gossip reporter..this is stupid...

Football, hurry up! I missed last night preview of Hard Knocks on HBO. Boo.

Until next week...

I'm gone like Drew Carey's blubber

where art thou 'Ren?

It's been a bad couple days for former Memphis Tiger basketball players.

Memphis OG Lorenzen Wright has been missing for a week reports his family. In some ways this does not surprise me at all. Just look at the track record of Memphis players, from Memphis. Ren, Burks, Hunt..and that's just recently. They can't escape their own environment. Sad. And there have been reports of Ren's crazy spending habits. He's recently lost 2 multi-million dollar homes. Not to mention the death of an infant daughter. The guy has definitely been through some stuff.

I never thought to myself that Lorenzen would be the old Tiger hanging out at games and getting involved in the program, rallying the fans, being a supporter. He just didn't seem like the type.

And he may have had another couple years as a big man on the bench somewhere. Shit, Kurt Thomas and Theo Ratliff are getting jobs.

I'm going to stop here, this is becoming an obituary...so here's to hoping for the best, but preparing for the worse.

Now on to some dumb shit...

Another Memphian, former Tiger and NBA player Shawne Williams was arrested with another former Tiger Kareem Cooper the other day. Driving on suspended license, weed in the car...sound familiar?

Williams had his share of "problems" when he finally got to U of M, but he had a freaking awesome year. (5 threes in the first half against Duke in The Garden in his first game anyone?). After he got drafted? Back to the old ways. Burned bridges in Indiana and Dallas. Waste of talent.

And why is Kareem Cooper in Memphis? You may remember him getting arrested during his time here for...oh, what was it?....weed! Maybe he needed to re-up?



Music:

Three 6 Mafia ft Waka Flaka and Project Pat

bigger douche than LeBron?

Possibly.

Chris Paul now said he wants a trade. He wants to pull a LeBron and form his own Big 3. Sources tell ESPN sources that he wants to go to NY Knicks. But he also lists Orlando, Dallas and Portland as "wish list" of teams.

Bet you won't see Melo signing that extension with Denver if CP3 gets traded to NY. Amare, Melo and Paul vs Bron, Wade and Bosh? That would be insane.

True Story:

Dream I had last night

Me and Horace were in Dallas at American Airlines Arena to "witness" LBJ's first Heat game. (I'm pretty sure the NBA hasn't released the schedule for next year, but if the Heat's first game is in Dallas? You can call me Prophet Johnson). Anyway we were right where the players come out. And in this dream, the Heat were introduced last. LeBron was hanging out right next to us. We high-fived and he gave us both a nod of acknowledgment. Then he sat down and started talking to us. Hoarace asked him if he was going to average 30 points and 20 rebounds. He laughed and said "Nah, but I'm going to get 20 and 15 assists tonight." I told him he has to average at least 15 dimes a game with the team he's on. He then started talking about how the media made it seem like he didn't like Shaq. I told him, "I love Shaq, he's hilarious." Bron Bron responded, "Me too!" And then I told him Dirk was one of my favorite players and he said, "Dirk's cold." Then I woke up.

Anyway, my dream about LeBron made me hate him a little less. Too bad he's probably not like that in real life.

Not much to blog about during baseball season. Eh.

the decision

First off, I have no dog in the LeBron fight. I could care less where he went, although as an NBA fan, I wanted him out of Cleveland. Why? Cause it's fucking Cleveland! What NBA fan would want the game's most exciting player to play for Cleveland?

So the King chooses Miami and drops a big Cleveland Steamer on the state of Ohio.

Fuck Dan Gilbert. He addressed an open letter to Cavs fans right after James announced his decision. He basically trashed him and called him a coward for leaving and said he quit during the playoffs. Ok, guy, he was there for 7 years and you never put the talent around him to win. I'm sure you bent over backwards to make sure he was comfortable and his family and friends were taken care of, but shut up.

What player is going to read that and want to play for Dan Gilbert? What a baby.

And to the people burning his jersey, I understand you're pissed, but really?

It's kinda like the Cal decision here. I look at it like the best 9 years of Tiger basketball (in my lifetime). Yeah, it sucks he left, and everyone was real pissed off, but now...I'm over it. Cavs fans should look at it like they were really lucky to have LeBron for 7 years. Yeah, he didn't win any rings, but who could when the second best player is 33 year old Antawn Jamison?

Yes, LBJ was douche to the max for giving a 1 hour ESPN special to announce the destruction of the Cavs, but get over it. It's not 1995. The Cavs aren't just going to leave town (I don't think) like the Browns.

And hey, Mike Miller is joining the Heat too. That's kinda cool. Didn't realize Mighty Mike was tight with LBJ. So the Heat have 5 players assuming Miller signs. LBJ, Bosh, Wade, Miller and Chalmers.

The Heat traded the number 2 pick in the 08 Draft, Michael Beasley, to the Wolves for a second round pick. Damn! Wolves stealing talent. Nice play for them.

MLB

So the Yankees are about to get Cliff Lee in a trade. Sheesh, that's just not even fair.