Ron Artest admits he used to drink Hennessy at halftime
Dec/09BC
Source: Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! - Leave it to Ron Artest to try and steal a little of Tiger Woods and Allen Iverson’s headline thunder.
In a lengthy and candid interview for the upcoming issue of Sporting News magazine, Artest — best known as the central figure in the infamous Malice at the Palace in Detroit — lets it fly, including a startling admission that he drank alcohol during games as a member of the Chicago Bulls.
“I used to drink Hennessy … at halftime,” said Artest, who played with the Bulls from 1999-2002 and now is with the Los Angeles Lakers. “I [kept it] in my locker. I’d just walk to the liquor store [near the stadium] and get it.”
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NFL star wants UFC fight
Nov/09BC
Source: Yahoo! Sports
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco is on pace to have a banner season, much like he did in 2007, but he already has his eye on the offseason. He spent Wednesday asking, nay, begging, Dana White over Twitter to sign him to the UFC for a fight with middleweight champion and pound-for-pound king Anderson Silva.
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Middle-school WR checks in at 7-4
Nov/09BC
Source: Rivals
Rivals: The Morgan Middle School football team in Ellensburg, Wash., doesn’t need a sheet to know when to go for the two-point conversion. It may have a sure-fire play: Just throw it to Brenden Adams.
Adams, you see, is 7-foot-4.
That’s right; the tallest teen-age boy in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records is playing football this year. In middle school.
“This is the first year my mom’s let me play,” Adams told Melissa Luck, an executive producer for KXLY4 in Spokane. “She thought I was gonna get hurt or something. It’s my favorite sport and she said this is an opportunity she didn’t want me to miss.”
Luck’s story details Adams’ growth and his love of the game.
First, his height.
He was an average newborn, measuring just over 19 inches. But by five months old, he had gained 14 pounds and had all of his teeth. At 2, he was 3-foot-5; by 5 he was 4-for-5. At ll, he was 6-foot-8. He’s now 14.
Adams gave Luck the medical explanation for his growth: “It was my 12th chromosome that broke in half and flipped over and reattached,” he said.
While his height makes strangers wonder if he’s an athlete, the truth is, his height actually holds him back as it comes with serious health problems, including enlarged joints and unusual blood counts. He already has arthritis.
“I can’t run anymore,” Adams said in the story. “I can’t be active like I used to.”
Height, actually, is a detriment in football. While NFL players keep getting bigger, the truth is, it’s usually bigger, not taller.
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