Here’s Celtic back-up point guard Nate Robinson’s latest stunt, as he continues to spend the off-season vying to become Shaq’s sidekick.

If you don’t catch it :02 seconds in, Paul Pierce is on the flipcam. What you’re about to see is Pierce giving Nate Robinson 30-seconds to complete a full suicide in Shaq’s size 23, which come up past his shin splints.





If you were following the video’s timer, you may have noticed Pierce actually gave him an additional :05.

When he says “Biggest Shoes in the World”, it makes me grin. I’m really happy about Robinson becoming the Tonto to Shaq’s Lone Ranger.

℅ @JonesOnTheNBA. I can’t wait for Oct. 26.

The most recent fines to come down from the front office on NFL players who tweeted either during the game or too close to kick-off: Darnell Dockett ($5,000) and Chad OchoCinco ($25,000).

Ryan Grant, who’s out for the year with a right ankle, would like to avoid a similar penalty.

This afternoon, Grant, whose Packers take on the Bears in tonight’s Monday Night Football game, tweeted a rather interesting question.

One Twitter user thinks it should only apply to those with thumb injuries. Wise guy. Personally, I’d like to cite the NBA allowing Dwight Howard to tweet during a playoff game that he was suspended from back in May 2009.

I’d love to see the NFL reward him for helping them further define the rules of social media usage for players (whether they realize it or not) and at least get back to him on this. RT me here, and help someone @NFL take notice before tonight’s game.

UPDATE: Ryan Grant chose not to tweet last night during the game, but I’m sure he had some frustration to voice as his Packers went down 20-17 to the Bears – after dominating the early part of the game.

NFL PR Brian McCarthy, or @NFLPRGUY on Twitter, made it clear that since he wasn’t with the team it was Grant’s call. Thanks for clearing that up.

Last question: Is there any gray area to this “not with the team” rule at all? Say a guy gets suspended or cut – what’s happens if Roethlisberger or Trent Edwards decides to join Twitter this week?

Let’s get this written down somewhere, league arbiters.

Steve Breaston wants to be a Facebook poet laureate, and I got to admit he’s not bad. Under the pen name S.Phantom (aka William Esteban aka Benito Stevenson aka Stevie Phantom), he’s been writing some pretty eloquent Facebook notes – weird concept in the age of Sarah Palin’s Facebook notes, I know – on his official page: Steven Breaston 15 ((The official page of S.Phantom)). The most recent, a really sweet ode to his grandmother. Hope he doesn’t mind a re-post here:

In junior high there was a woman I used to kick it with,I would give her Hershey kisses and she would give me kisses,so I close my eyes and try to envision it because I’m missing it…no sound,even though they say a thousand words come from images,I don’t know about that,but I can tell you a thousand tears do exist from these mental movie clips,cause I reminisce when she would sit without throwing fits, so many surgeries she could of quit and said I’m done with it,she never did and as a kid I learned what being unselfish is,and I’ll never know what being helpless is,the reason when I hear “give me sugar” I pucker up my lips,wishing it was for your kiss and that you were here for this,but I guess you are cause in my mind you’ve always been apart of it,that’s thoughtless… cause grandma you always been the heart of it,and it’s because of you I can’t part ways with it…so I’ll continue to write….grandma,I miss you, goodnight. -S.William Breaston aka S.Phantom-

Last week in an interview with The Arizona Republic, Breaston claimed he was a writer, and it appears he intends to back it up. Just like I’m hoping he intends to back up the hype from Week 1, and get in the end zone sometime soon.

Fan Steve Breaston on Facebook

No response yet from Mark Cuban across any of his social media platforms on the revival of the insider trading allegations that Cuban sold his stock in Canadian search engine Mamma.com to $750 K.

No blog posts on BlogMaverick (no updates, period, since Sep 10., in fact).

No Facebook comments or notes (Cuban is who he is, but he ain’t Palin, at least).

No tweets refuting the reopening of the investigation..but their have been other tweets.

What’s Cuban been up to online recently? Liking an Favoriteing YouTube videos mostly. Like this one: a Dirk fan vs. a Nash fan getting in a catfight (SFW):

Mark, I commend you for acting cool, calm and collected (for now) regarding these allegations. If not for your level of cautiousness in addressing these matters, I might not have seen those two battle it out today.

Court Revives Mark Cuban Insider Trading Case (Reuters)

Proving that Shaq, internet power broker, stands unfettered from his tumultuous last week where he was accused of hacking into and implanting child porn into a former employee’s computer, this morning, @The_Real_Shaq tweeted that he’s auctioning off four tickets to the home opener vs. the Heat on October 26, along with four jerseys.



The auction is part of the @TwitChange campaign, which launched on Sep. 15 as a charity-auction series to support aHomeInHaiti.org. The campaign was created by aHomeInHaiti.org founder Shaun King, and has signed up other Twitter celebs such as @KimKardashian, @JustinBieber and other members of the in-crowd. Check out the bidding war for Shaq’s tickets (currently, $2,550 for the set) and learn more about the cause at the eBay link.

Nice to see that Shaq clearly remembers a time when Googling “hack” and “Shaq” purely yielded YouTube clips of him bricking free throws, as he looks to rise above the pending lawsuit, not to mention the unending speculation that this latest move to Boston is purely Kobe-motivated.

For the risk averse amongst us in the Fantasy Football community, here’s a tool guaranteed to make your head spin when selecting who to start; from NFL.com and Bloomberg: “Decision Maker” (cost: $8)

It allows you to input players and will tell you who to play. Of course, they have to complicate things by giving you both the Best Play and the Upside Play.

From Bloomberg.com:

Bloomberg Sports Decision Maker – while driven by extremely detailed, fact-based, historical calculations – is very quick and simple to use. It provides fantasy players with the key answers they need to make their choices each week. The players are ranked by a system using complex analysis and formulas update based on recent performance and other factors such as the opposing defense that week and the weather forecast at that week’s venue. Decision Maker also has a unique technology-driven Risk/Reward Index, analyzing consistency of the scrutinized NFL players and pointing to long shot opportunities for players whose performance tends to be most unpredictable.

The guy I’m playing in our league this week posted this to the message board today, disclosing that his brother-in-law is one of the developers. He got my eight bucks, and I informed him that if I lose to him, I’m coming after his whole family.

As it would happen, I have a tough decision to make this week – who to start at second RB: Fred Taylor, Matt Forte or Marian Barber. So I put it to the test.

Between this, the ESPN.com point projections, and Forte vying to be this year’s Tom Brady off the field, I’m stymied.

I’ll admit, even after I drafted Steve Breaston in Fantasy this year, I didn’t really care about what Breaston had to say, . Then last week, to everyone’s surprise he went off for 132 yards in the Cards season opener – awarding me a serviceable 13 fantasy points. Now I’m ready to listen.

This week, Breaston gave one of the more authenticate interviews, post-Week One, to his team’s home town rag The Arizona Republic, intimating…

• He likes to always (or at least a lot) eat McDonald’s for his pre-game meal, he prefers sausage-egg mcmuffins and double cheeseburger meals
• He’s part of a non-NFLPA sanctioned gang called the “Backpack Boys” made up of himself Adrian Wilson. Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Mike Adams
• He follows the code, “You’ve gotta dance with the girl that took you to the prom.” (citing Mike Adams)

Breaston also fancies himself a writer. I look forward to him bringing long-form back on Steven Breaston 15 ((The official page of S.Phantom)) on Facebook. Maybe pen something like “A Possession Wideout’s Guide to the Extra Value Menu” by S.Breaston.

Follow Breaston on Twitter: @SBreaston15

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Steve Breaston reveals talents off field

Realizing the NFL season is nearly a week old, and I haven’t heard a peep out of Warren Sapp. Not one iota of commentary out of the guy. This should not be the case after tonight’s episode of Inside the NFL.

Sapp has never been a blowhard per say, more like jovially opinionated – he appreciates a good josh.

So, I thought it worthwhile to check out what he’s been out lately via his online channels.

His website QBKilla.com, let’s say not exactly a content engine. You can get a nice t-shirt that says QB Killa tho. Available in standard or pink baby-tee, yes zir (as Sapp himself might say).

What his website lacks in, well, multiple pages quite honestly, the Sapp Twitter feed (@QBKilla, naturally) makes up for in offbeat photo content.

Here’s one of a dog (a ridiculous looking dog in an NFL jersey). Here’s one of a short bus.

And…here’s a picture of what I believe Warren Sapp ate recently.

GUH!

His caption reads, “This Is Way I Don’t Eat Chocolate!! No Zirr!!!” If I knew what he meant, I guess I’d be less frightened by what’s on that plate.

Anyway, good luck putting that image out of your brain today. Maybe this Warren Sapp gag reel from 2008 will help…

Appearing live in a hotel lobby near you, it’s Shaq lip syncing – also piano player mimicking – to Peter Cetera’s Glory of Love. This gets pretty exaggerated.




Thanks for posting first, Hoops Doc. I too wouldn’t hate it if Shaq settled down a little.

To put this into context…

Apparently Marilyn Manson, actor, has gone method – kind of. According to Interview, he’s been walking around dressed like Kenny Powers, being rude to people a la Kenny, and wants to kidnap Danny McBride.

I’m not entirely sure what that last bit has to do with Manson, as Kenny would say, wanting to be me, but the point is his next on-screen appearance will not be in Eastbound (as some might assume), but a slasher film called Splatter Sisters where he plays a metal band leader named Lars.

I guess he felt he did enough method-preparation for the role of Lars in the 90′s.

Here’s what director Adam Bhala Lough, the man behind Splatter Sisters, told Interview:

“Whenever I see Manson, he’s repeating entire chunks of dialogue and dressed like Kenny,” says Lough. ”He just walks around dressed like this and fucks with people on the street. If a waiter or valet tells him, ‘Have a nice day,” he’ll respond, ‘Don’t tell me what to do.’ Stuff like that.”

It’s all very insane, but, at the same time great promotion – again, kind of. Great promotion for the upcoming second season of Eastbound &  Down; I guess he felt Manson as Lars in Splatter Sisters sells itself.

Marilyn Manson’s Mullet (Interview)