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I have no idea why these Photoshops of Celebrities Upside Down are so enjoyable, but I definitely scrolled through all 200 of them.
This one of Barack is obviously the best, but the ones featuring Bill Clinton, The Slap Chop/ShamWow guy, Henry Kissinger, Nelson Mandela, Uma Thurman, Elton John, Reese Witherspoon, Daniel Craig, Christina Ricci and George Clooney are pretty great.
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This morning, the person who runs the SI Vault twitter feed, Andy Gray, asked the following:
Anyone mind if I just post old Jordan photos all day?
The answer to that question is always “no” for obvious reasons — the main one being that it allows photographic gems like the one below to be unearthed to the masses. Check @SI_Vault in the near term for like 10 others, including this one of Money, Mike Schmidt and Sir Charles in the midst of a golf round and this one of MJ in a tux leaning on what I believe is a mid-80s Chevy Blazer.
UPDATE: This is all because today is MJ’s birthday, which I forgot to mention.
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Lang Whitaker of SLAM joins me to talk about the Hawks, Allen Iverson, Chicago, Sacramento, New York and life at the SLAM Dome. As far as a breakdown goes, it’s probably 1/3 ATL, 1/3 SLAM and 1/3 everything else.
Plan your listening accordingly. Then check out some of his work over at SLAM Online and Hawks.com and be sure to tune into NBA TV every Tuesday night at 6:00 pm to see Lang on the network’s new show The Beat.
Additionally, drop me an email or leave a note in the comments of any other teams or subjects you would like to hear more about. I have some guests and topics in mind for the next month or so, but will try to accommodate any requests as much as possible. We talk about practice for the people, after all.
And as always, be sure to subscribe to Talking About Practice on iTunes, where ratings and reviews are encouraged.
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After dropping that Luc Longley shrimp-naming story in your laps this morning, I now feel somewhat vindicated … but guilt remains about the lack of activity on BTPH last week. I swear it wasn’t just lethargy though. Been busy other places.
Here’s the proof and, thus, some other stuff you can read.
I guess that’s it, other than a bunch of other Pacers stuff you can’t possibly be interested in. Might be slow around here for a couple more days, but I will have something more on Casspi eventually and something on Donald Sterling, which is already long overdue.
It’s weird that I like Omri Casspi so much cause, normally, I hate Jews.
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Honestly, I think the post title pretty much covers the entirety of this story, but here’s how it all came about for those who just need to know how we got here. (from The Scientist via Wired)
Step #1. Some Australian graduate student at the University of Melbourne named Anna McCallum discovers a new type of shrimp.
Step #2. She puts the naming rights for the shrimp up on eBay and plans for the proceeds to go to the Australian Marine Conservation Society, a fundraising strategy that has become a fairly common in scientific circles.
Step #3. Former Bulls center and three-time NBA champion Luc Longley, who is apparently into the whole marine conservation thing, wins the rights with his $2,900 bid and named the shrimp Lebbeus clarehanna after his daughter Clare Hanna Longley.
Got it, mate?
Some more about and from Luc:
Longley [is] no stranger to supporting marine conservation in his native country, having helped halt the construction of a resort near the Ningaloo Reef, a vast coral ecosystem off the west coast of Australia. “That gave me a taste for it,” Longley says. Coincidentally, Longley is from the Western Australia city of Freemantle, which is not far from where McCallum found the shrimp.
Longley says that he was as excited to name the new shrimp species as he was to help the AMCS protect the marine environment. “You get to name a species and you get to donate to charity at the same time,” he says. “It’s a fabulous concept.” He named the shrimp Lebbeus clarehanna, as a birthday present to his eldest daughter, Clare Hanna Longley, who turned 15 this August.
Good for Luc. Nice to see that at least one guy from those Bulls teams is outspoken about something a little more socially ambitious than selling sneakers to Republicans.
Still, my favorite part of the story resides in a quote from the woman who found the shrimp.
“It was a total surprise that a basketballer would be interested in this little deep-sea shrimp,” McCallum recalls.
I just like the fact that she uses the term “basketballer.”
Silly non-Americans being all … non-American.
[insert hilarious shrimp on the barbie joke here]
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Unfortunately, I’m not a professional NBA blogger yet. No, no. This nonsense is pure amateur hour. In my actual career, I’m a mailman. A letter carrier. A master of the postal arts. Il postino.
It’s not the best job, but I make it much better. I steal. A lot. I’d say that out of any given ten letters I pick up, I thieve seven or eight. And ya know who writes a ton of letters? NBA players. I was shocked too. But I’m talking, like, a ton. In fact, the only thing they mail more than letters are postcards. Yup. Postcards. They send em to everyone. They send them to each other. They send them to their coaches. People send postcards to them. And sometimes they even send postcards to themselves.
These are the ones I stole last week.
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