Kobe Bryant Slammed With $100,000 Fine

OUCH! Be careful what you blurt out if you are an NBA star…The LA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 Wednesday by the NBA for allegedly using an anti-gay slurin frustration over a referee’s call Tuesday night.Bryant was caught on TV calling referee Bennie Adams a “f**king f*ggot after Adams penalized Bryant with a technical foul during the third quarter of a victory over the San Antonio Spurs.  Continue reading

Kobe Bryant Becomes First Athlete Immortalized At Grauman’s Chinese Theatre

Kobe Bryant hand and foot print Grauman's Chinese theatre

Kobe Bryant has become the first athlete – ever – to be immortalized in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre! Yep- Kobe and not Michael Jordon, not Joe Montana, not Babe Ruth, not Tiger Woods, not Wayne Gretzky, nor Mohammad Ali. But Kobe Bryant.

On Saturday afternoon, Kobe had his hands and Nike-clad feet immortalized in cement next to the likes of Shirley Temple, Steve McQueen, C-3PO, Tom Cruise, Marilyn Monroe, Brad Pitt, and Lucille Ball.
Congratulations to the LA Lakers star – Guess that’s what five NBA championship rings gets you in Hollywood – especially if those rings were earned in this city. Continue reading

Kim Kardashian Please Marry Miles Austin

Some women are athletes’ good luck charms; some are their Achilles’ heels. The Dallas Cowboys have already suffered through the worst kind of the latter type of women; here is hoping that they now have a good luck charm hanging on to one of their star players.

As a huge Cowboys fan, I am rooting for the new romance between Dallas Cowboys Wide Receiver, Miles Austin, and Kim Kardashian to move away from tabloid gossip and fully blossom into a long-lasting relationship. In fact, if the couple decides to get married tomorrow, they have my full-hearted blessing. Continue reading

Do I Dare Admit That I Would Not Mind If The Boston Celtics Beat The LA Lakers In The NBA Finals?

(Please forgive me my British friends. This is all a classic case of: “I swear, it was me; it really had nothing to do with you.”). As a newbie Los Angelean, I don’t know….I just can’t yet get into the Lakers…So, I’m gonna play the devil’s advocate, and say, I wouldn’t hate it if the Boston Celtics won the finals.

I say this as I recall a day not too long ago when the Boston Celtics – the entire team- made a very sad me a very happy girl. In 2007, I was stationed in London for two months; and I think I hated all but possibly 800 minutes of that entire 2-month period. I missed my family, my friends, my dog, my bed, a boy I was just getting to know before I left, my American TV and football in particular. I hated the rain, missed the sun; hated the food, missed my American-made Diet Coke. And no one could understand my accent, nor could I understand theirs. ARGH. Hated it all. Especially the Tate Modern museum, but, I won’t go there now…

So, on many Sundays, I would take “Bus #9 to Aldwych” and go to the “Sports Cafe” in Piccadilly Circus in London just to watch American football, and be surrounded by other Americans who were like me; misplaced. I’d go by myself, but always ended up leaving with “friends” I had made there. Well, one day, a whole slew of green and white jersey-wearing tall  men entered the Sports Cafe, and despite the fact that the bar was a multi-level large place, walked straight into my section and took three booths right next to me.

They must have felt the pull of the Celeb Magnet, sad magnet and all. It turns out, the Boston Celtics were playing an exhibition game in London. And just like that, in a matter of a minute, I had 10+ slices of home sitting next to me–speaking in an accent I understood and better yet, who understood me…Thank you Celtics for the kindness you showed that day. I don’t think it was a coincidence that you won the National Championship the very same season, considering the deplorable season you all suffered from the year before our meeting….You may have shocked everyone else with your amazing turn-around in one season, but you didn’t shock me. Karma. LOL…