Aquille Carr, Overseas Pros and Major League Basketball
If you’re surprised Aquille Carr is skipping college to play pro basketball overseas, you shouldn’t be. Reports that an Italian club had offered him $750,000 first surfaced in 2011, not long after the 5-foot-6 dynamo used a dazzling array of crossovers, stutter-steps, blind passes and dunks (yes, dunks!) to become a viral video sensation and … Continue reading
ABDB Ep 26: Old Folks, Cantankerous; Young Folks, Broke
What happens when the best sports talk show ever meets the top sports podcast on the net? Click the text below to find out. Pouring out grape drank for Duane “Sweets Watson”… Episode Willie Upshaw/Paul Palmer/Vinnie Johnson+Isiah Thomas… Special guest in the house, the one and only Bomani Jones!!! Damn you, Darius Lovehall! The Morning … Continue reading
ABDB Ep. 22: What if Tom Brady… were BLACK!!
He’d look like this. And the All Balls Don’t Bounce Podcast would sound like this. If you ever need support knowin who’s on the court, you call — All Balls Don’t Bounce… Pimpers Paradise even more pimped out than ever…Shouts out to ABDB’s ever-expanding circle of friends… Annika Sorenstam still beefing with Michelle Wie, says … Continue reading
ABDB Ep. 8: Who You Callin an Uncle Tom?
Phoenix Suns president Rick Welts reveals his homosexuality — courageous…Ain’t is strange how the newspapers play with the language? …Former Villanova BBall player Will Sheridan also comes out the closet — opportunistic…Will Sheridan steals four minutes of our lives… Celebrating Ocho Cinco…Newsroom fear turns non-events into big stories, especially if they involved the Miami … Continue reading
ABDB Ep. 7: Immigration, Agitation and Aquille Carr Nation
Where sports and social issues intersect, that’s where you’ll find ABDB. This week we tackle immigration policy via Atlanta Hawks foward Etan Thomas, gay marriage via NHL pest Sean Avery, and child labour via high school basketball star Aquille Carr. Along the way we break down Manny Pacquiao’s whitewash over Shane Mosley, Gus Johnson’s exit … Continue reading
ABDB Ep. 5: Pimper’s Paradise.
Two days before UFC 129, the All Balls Don’t Bounce crew descends upon Duane “Sweets” Watson’s luxurious downtown condo to preview the event. Along the way cast a critical lens on the NFL’s attempt to extend their lockout, examine the creative accounting NCAA schools employ to appear to comply with title IX, and conclude that … Continue reading
Buzz Bissinger, the NBA and False Friends
When I enrolled in Spanish class two years ago my instructor warned me about “false friends” — words that sound familiar to English speakers but actually mean something different and potentially embarrassing en Español. Exitado was one of them. An anglo looks at that word and thinks it means “excited,” but in many parts of Mexico, … Continue reading
Morgan Campbell: A Writer on Sports and More 