Ron Artest for a six pack of beer…

Category : Basketball Posted by : hoop
Posted on December 13, 2005 | Viewed 422 times

After saying that he wanted a trade… this would look out to be a good bargain…

Times like these… I sure miss Reggie Miller, Rik Smits, the Davis Boys, Jalen Rose and Mark Jackson… *sigh*

Coach Carlisle even went out of his way to lobby for Ron Artest to win the Defensive Player of the Year… and this is the gratitude that you get… whining for not being given the ball… sheesh…

Crazy Investments that Worked…

Category : Interesting Read, Web Thingy Posted by : hoop
Posted on December 12, 2005 | Viewed 244 times

From Fortune Magazine, a list of investments that were deemed absurd in their time, but worked out nicely by making those investors ROI something to gape about….

Notable entries was the recipe for Coca-Cola costing only $2k from it’s inventor… as well as the discovery of oil…

They seem to have forgotten to mention Microsoft’s gambit with IBM, buying an obscure operating system named DOS for 50k that sparked a billion dollar empire…

Article here

Richard Pryor passes away.

Category : General Posted by : hoop
Posted on December 11, 2005 | Viewed 138 times

I remember the guy from the movie the Toy as well as Stir Crazy… boy he sure made me laugh then… of course I never knew that his comedy routines were laced with invectives since I was just a kid. I used to think then that he and comedian Gene Wilder were joined at the hip… because their duo was such a drop down funny routine…

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Scottie Pippen’s Number to be retired…

Category : Basketball Posted by : hoop
Posted on December 10, 2005 | Viewed 168 times

by the Chicago Bulls… the six time NBA champ will have his number (33) retired and hung beside the greatest (23) who ever played the game…



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