Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
In honor of Randy Moss' retirement on Monday, I have decided to run over a traffic cop we here at Rumors and Rants have been inspired to look back at some of the greatest rookie seasons in the history of sports. For this purpose, we'll focus on the four major ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
It's official, college basketball powers North Carolina and Michigan State will play a game on the deck of an aircraft carrier. A matchup that has been rumored for months has finally been agreed to and given final approval, as the two teams will face each other on the flight deck ...
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Over the past few days Los Angeles Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been making the rounds accusing the Lakers of treating him poorly over the years. He also made headlines by complaining that he didn't have a statue outside Staples Center like Jerry West, Magic Johnson and Chick Hearn. Geez, ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
A week after pulling their offer to him, the Los Angeles Lakers are once again talking to Lamar Odom about returning to the NBA Champions according to the Los Angeles Times.
Last week the Lakers actually had two deals on the table for the 6'10" forward. The first was a three-year, ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
On Tuesday, the world lost one of the most iconic sidekicks of all-time, Ed McMahon. Before he was peddling gold in Super Bowl ads, McMahon made his fame by sitting in the No. 2-guy chair next to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show (and decades later in a bizarre talk ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Apparently Charles Barkley is trying to get fired.
In case you missed Chuck Steak's latest misstep here's a peak at what happens when medications are mixed.
Calling Kenny Smith "numbnuts" is fair game. Smith is the weakest of TNT's in-studio trio (sometimes quartet). I'm hoping they replace him with Chris Webber sometime ...
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