0 comments by Matt Yoder on 5/13/2013
One of the biggest stars in music today is aggravated with a certain NBA playoff team choosing to play his music to pump up their home fans. Seattle based rapper Macklemore was informed by a Twitter follower that the Oklahoma City Thunder was playing his latest hit, "Can't Hold Us", to excite the home fans in the […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 5/10/2013
Basketball hall of famer, crazy person, and prospective foreign diplomat Dennis Rodman is continuing to wedge himself into American relations with North Korea. Rodman infamously went on a publicity stunt to North Korea earlier this year and palled around with dictator Kim Jong Un, appearing in public with a man who operates one of the […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 4/29/2013
For months, the sports world has discussed the potential of the first gay male professional athlete. Advocacy and support for an active gay athlete in American professional sports has grown immensely in the last several years and in 2013 the questions were becoming a matter of when and who and not if. The […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 6/27/2012
With the NBA Draft tomorrow night, you’ll hear plenty of talk about teams building or rebuilding through the draft. New Orleans has a great chance beginning with #1 pick Anthony Davis. Charlotte will look to finally get it right. Cleveland will look to add to their young nucleus of Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson. But […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 6/4/2012
Yes, the NBA store is actually selling the shirt above – a picture of Dwight Howard with the word “loyalty” in big blue all caps letters. Because if there is one word that describes the relationship between Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic, it is loyalty! Howard himself used the word to describe why he made […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 5/29/2012
Over at Awful Announcing, one of my favorite things to do is to look at what sports topics may be trending on Twitter and the conversation that takes place during games. Usually, these are the best and funniest tweets firing barbs at the likes of Joe Buck and Chris Berman. Last night, the Twitter […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 4/24/2012
The Charlotte Bobcats are bad. That’s not news to anybody. But just how bad are the spawn of Michael Jordan? The Bobcats are so bad, Air Jordan would be less of a detriment taking the floor at the age of 49 and having the hangtime of Phil Mickelson than he is running the front office. […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 1/5/2012
While Los Angeles may be “Lob City” with Chris Paul throwing oops to high flyers like Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan, perhaps the best lob of the early NBA season came tonight from Rudy Fernandez of the Denver Nuggets. Fernandez had quite the journey this offseason to Denver from Real Madrid via Dallas, but could […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 10/18/2011
As an NBA fan, the lockout is getting fairly depressing. The regular season is on its way to being cancelled. There are very few rays of hope involving professional basketball. The landscape is bleak. David Stern is sadly still David Stern. Enter two of the best elements of the history of professional basketball – […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 9/28/2011
With these economic times, you have to take employment when and where you can get it. Conventional wisdom would seem to say this reality wouldn’t have an effect on multi-million dollar NBA players. As we all know though, some basketball players don’t exactly have the best track record taking care of their fortunes. That fact […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 9/16/2011
With the name-change being official, it’s unofficially Metta World Peace day today at Crossover Chronicles! What that means, I actually have no idea, except for the strange sensation I’m getting to sit crosslegged on my patio and start singing kumbaya. We have one person to thank for this impromptu celebration of harmony though, and that […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 9/12/2011
The NBA Lockout is about to go off a cliff Wile E. Coyote style towards the plunge of losing regular season games and possibly an entire season. Now, with the NFL and college football seasons underway, the Association has well and truly disappeared from the national landscape. For NBA fans, the lack of optimism emanating […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 9/5/2011
The FIBA tournaments happening around the world are a nice reprieve from the depressing lack of news on the lockout front. One of those tournaments is the FIBA Americas competition that will decide a qualifier for the 2012 Olympics in London. Even though the already qualified USA team didn’t participate, there are still some NBA […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 8/21/2011
The Turkish club Besiktas first entered the realm of discussion in North America last year when they inked Allen Iverson to a two-year contract. Prior to that, they were relatively unknown in terms of the major European basketball clubs, as the likes of Barcelona and Panathinaikos are the most recognized clubs when discussing Euro-ball on […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 8/20/2011
A stunning discovery was made by something or someone called Ipsos in a survey of America’s most popular and unpopular celebrities… 52% of people surveyed had an unfavorable opinion of Charlie Sheen! I know, I’m flabbergasted too! What is wrong with these trolls? Do they not know the power of the warlock?? A more […]
