A new picture of Shawn Marion has many people asking: What is that car he's driving? A fan who spotted the Mavericks' forward tweeted out a picture of Marion in what appears to be a three-wheeler.
I just met Shawn Marion. #pictureoritdidnthappen twitter.com/landongraves/s…
— landon graves (@landongraves) May 19, 2013
Another view of his three-wheeled ride was posted on Reddit, leaving many to wonder: Did Shawn Marion buy his car from the Jetsons?
Looking for a reason that athletes are signing with Jay-Z (other than you know, the obvious?) Here's one good one: WNBA star Skylar Diggins, one of the rapper's first clients, showed off her Mercedes courtesy of the Roc Nation Sports.
Got surprised with a new mercedes! Thanks so muchto Jay and @rocnation, and @dancyautogroup! instagram.com/p/ZgaVvqQYn9/
— Skylar Diggins (@SkyDigg4) May 19, 2013
According to Roc Nation's Twitter account, the new ride was a gift for graduation from Notre Dame. On the dashboard was a handwritten note from Jay-Z himself, saying "Enjoy."
Congrats to new Notre Dame grad @skydigg4! Thanks to @dancyautogroup for helping with her surprise gift. Instagram.com/p/ZgXu4DoJxN/
— Roc Nation (@RocNation) May 19, 2013
If Jay-Z seems to be paying extra attention to his new WNBA star, it's not surprising. Diggins was one of the first athletes to shun the big agents and go to Roc Nation Sports along with Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano and New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz.
The car came from Dancy Automative Group, which is based in New York and often works closely with Roc Nation. The company's CEO, Macky Dancy, said he got the call from Roc Nation Sports on Thursday that they wanted to do something special for Diggins. He arranged for the car, a Mercedes CLS 63 which he said is valued for more than $100,000, to be there when the basketball star exited with her diploma.
The stunt, he said, was coordinated with some help from NBA TV, Diggins' family and the Roc Nation team. While Diggins was at the graduation ceremony, Dancy switched out the car that was in the parking spot of the car Diggins drove in with and replaced it with the new one. Camera crews and bystanders watched in amusement as she walked past the car, before slowly turning and realizing what was happening.
"She went kind of berzerk," he said, laughing.
The car caps off quite a year for the (now former) Notre Dame star. She was picked third in the WNBA draft by the Tulsa Shock after a stellar career with the Fighting Irish. Diggins, who was one of the biggest celebrities in women's basketball during her career at Notre Dame (she has more than 390,000 Twitter followers including Lil' Wayne), led her team in scoring with 17.1 points per game and dished out 6.1 assists per game, leading them to the Final Four (where they lost to eventual champs UConn).
No word if her boyfriend, Notre Dame football player Daniel Smith, managed to do anything any near as impressive for his sweetheart's graduation--but the shock for Diggins, at least on Twitter, still seemed to not be wearing off any time soon.
"I got 99 problems," she tweeted late Sunday, "but a BENZ ain't one."
There's a myriad of policies that have been bent thanks to petitions on Change.org, a popular site where anyone can pick a cause, start a petition and circulate.
But will it work with the NCAA?
As first pointed out by CBSSports.com, thousands of fans have signed a petition on the site urging the NCAA to reinstate Georgia offensive lineman Kolton Houston, who was banned after testing positive for a substance he says he was given in high school, not knowing it was a banned substance.
Because the drug was administered incorrectly, according to ESPN's Outside the Lines, the drug still remains entrapped in fat in his body and as a result, he has failed multiple drug tests. The NCAA says, until he can pass, he can't step foot in a game.
The petition, which was started by California resident Jeremy Barton, asks the NCAA to review its enforcement of its rulebook -- something many have said is too rigid.
"The kid has gone above and beyond the necessary to prove, statistically, that he is not using banned substances," the petition reads.
As of Sunday, it has reached more than 4,000 signatures.
The NCAA and president Mark Emmert rarely bend to outside pressure and have faced more significant outcry than the one over Houston. But a groundswell of support from random strangers can surely make anyone's day.
Houston, meanwhile, seems to be keeping himself occupied while awaiting a change in the NCAA's policies, should it ever come.
I'm man enough to say Safe Haven was a good movie.. I know @blakesailors07 will agree
— Kolton Houston (@KoltonHouston75) May 13, 2013
In what seems to be an attempt to finally put to rest the hubbub over his alleged clubbing and drinking with Rihanna a few nights before falling ill during the playoffs, J.R. Smith took to Instagram on Friday afternoon with a post of his own.
The mercurial shooter had been blasted by fans and commentators after being reportedly spotted at Jay-Z's 40/40 club with Rihanna in the middle of the playoffs. Smith later came down with an illness that left him looking slightly dazed on the court and struggling with his shot during part of the Knicks-Pacers series.
After enough people blasted her for being a bad influence, Rihanna allegedly lashed out on Instagram with her own version of the events before Thursday's game, sparking a whole new buzz about Smith's partying -- something he had talked about avoiding this season.
Based on a screenshot posted by Larry Brown Sports, Rihanna told another Instagram user that "(Smith's) a-- be hungover from clubbing every night during playoffs."
Smith and the Knicks had been mute about the allegations of his partying. "I'm not worried about Instagram," Smith told reporters Thursday night. "I'm worried about the playoffs."
But the win over Indiana in Game 5 to keep the Knicks' season alive seemed to change all of that.
#LMFAO I had to do this!!!! #GreatMorningWorld! instagram.com/p/ZasvXBtfHI/
— JR Smith (@TheRealJRSmith) May 17, 2013
He may have been invited as a joke after his fake girlfriend was named to Maxim's Hot 100 list, but Manti Te'o didn't waste the opportunity to hang out at a party filled with potential real ones.
The new Chargers linebacker made an appearance at the event earlier this week in Hollywood and reportedly seemed to be having a great time.
Te'o's fake girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, who was often cited by Te'o in interviews and later revealed to be a malicious "Catfish" scheme, came in at No. 69 on the list.
"It seems like he has a good sense of humor about the whole thing which i think is the best way to handle a situation like that," said Maxim's editor-in-chief, Dan Bova, who said he was "pleasantly surprised" that Te'o showed up.
Bova added when he thanked Te'o for coming out, the linebacker grinned and said "Are you kidding me? This is great."
Another partygoer told ThePostGame that Te'o arrived to the party with fellow NFL-ers Justin Hunter and Tyler Wilson and spent a lot of time chatting with Kendra Wilkinson (rumormongers, down -- she's still married).
And it seems like his days of Internet dating may be over.
"He definitely had girls all over him," the partygoer said.
Cheeseheads are about to get a lot cheesier.
The rabid Green Bay Packers fans, known for their extreme passion and dedication, wil be the subject of a new reality show on TBS. During its upfront presentation to advertisers this week in New York, the network announced that reality TV guru Jason Carbone, whose previous work includes ABC's "The Bachelor" and "the Bachelorette," will be the executive producer of the program.
The network held a casting call in Green Bay in December, and 80 green and gold clad fans showed up to demonstrate their extreme loyalty to the Packers.
"Wisconsin in general has great people and it's an area that hasn't been shown to all of America yet on television," Kjerstin Johnson, a casting associate with the production company Good Clean Fun, said at the time. "We find it fascinating, and think the personalities are great, and want to catalog it a bit."
Apparently, the network must have liked what it saw.
"These citizens don't just bleed green and gold; they eat victory for breakfast," the network wrote in a release. "For them, being a Cheesehead is more than just being a fan. It's a way of life. This show will take viewers into the hilarious subculture through the eyes of a group of proud Wisconsinites as they navigate life in the only way they know how – loud, proud and with lots of beer. For these folks, there is no off-season."
No date was announced for the show's premiere.
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Luke Donald may be getting a few more invites to barbecues in his neighborhood.
The golfer told ESPN's Darren Rovell this week that he has finally claimed a cow that he won last year at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan. The cow, which is Miyazaki beef, retails for more than $200 per pound in restaurants.
It also doesn't exactly travel by UPS. To get the cow to his house in Chicago, Donald reportedly enlisted the help of a chef friend, Nick Kokonas, and Shane Lindsay, who runs a food importing company in Washington. After wrangling with tournament officials for months and waiting for the cow to go from alive to edible, the meat arrived in freezer packs this week to his home.
"It was a long wait," Donald told the Chicago Tribune via email, "but Miyazaki beef is known as the best in the world, so it will be well worth the wait. I really appreciated Nick's help, so I plan to have him over this summer for a steak dinner or two."
The cow, which is said to be around 200 pounds, is worth around $80,000.
"It's very marbled and the knife just eases through the meat," Donald told Rovell. "Definitely the best beef I've ever had."
Perfect warm evening in Chicago, grilling some Miyazaki beef - best beef in the world, literally #DoesntGetMuchBetter moby.to/4cm254
— Luke Donald (@LukeDonald) May 15, 2013
For winning the Dunlop Phoenix event last year, part of the prize was the beef - just turned up today thanks to @nickkokonas
— Luke Donald (@LukeDonald) May 15, 2013
It was literally ranked #1 beef in the world ahead of Kobe, Wagyu etc -very marbled, but melt in your mouth good moby.to/m7b1dg
— Luke Donald (@LukeDonald) May 15, 2013
As if it hasn't been a bad enough season for Blue Jays and Dodgers fans, a new graphic is sure to add their woes.
The New York Times recently produced a graphic that shows exactly how much each MLB squad is paying its injured players. And as you can imagine with the outrageous salaries of certain MLB players, the statistics are pretty grim.
Take the last-place Dodgers, for example. The team's total payroll is around $215 million. And with some big-name players on the disabled list (Zack Greinke, Hanley Ramirez, Ted Lilly), roughly one-third of the squad's payroll is going to injured players. That's a whopping $69 million.
Of course, no team tops the New York Yankees, whose numbers blow even the Dodgers out of the water. With Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson sitting out, the Yankees are spending $100 million on injured players. That's 44 percent of New York's payroll, and more than the average payroll for MLB clubs. It amounts to roughly $23,000 per hour.
Of course, those figures are a little easier to swallow when the Yankees are in first place.
Interestingly, of the five teams who are paying the most to injured players, two are in first place (the Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals), two are in last place (the Dodgers and the Blue Jays) and one is in fourth place (the New York Mets).
To check out the full graphic, see here.
Full Story >>Exactly one year after the Vikings gained approval for a new stadium through a vote in the Minnesota Senate, the team has released preliminary drawings of what that $975 million project would look like.
As you can see below, the Vikings' new home takes after several of the newer NFL stadiums, specifically Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. Whereas the Metrodome is completely closed off, this new stadium is full of glass. In fact, the transparent roof on the stadium would be the world's largest.
While the Minneapolis Stadium Implementation Committee and the City of Minneapolis will review the drawings, most people expect the Vikings to move into the new stadium in 2016. The 2013-14 season would be the team's last in the Metrodome, and then the Vikings would spend two seasons playing at the University of Minnnesota's TCF Bank Stadium.
Via the Vikings' website, here are some mock-ups of the stadium:
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