Update: Allen Iverson in trashcan-pissing snafu

This headline: not a joke. I know, I know: I should’t have to say that. But I usually have some fun with the headlines on this site and I wanted to make sure you knew I wasn’t kidding.

While I was Google Newsing — this is an expression, shut up — for something else, I came across the Dan Gross report on Allen Iverson’s casino argument that ran in today’s Daily News. Only it wasn’t the report I noted earlier, it was a different version sent out over the Knight Ridder wire that is slightly different.

It seems like an earlier version, since Gross doesn’t talk to Iverson after the Sixers game, and simply gets a no comment from A.I.’s spokesman But it contains this paragraph that, curiously, the Daily News story omitted. I’m guessing the Daily News took out the paragraph for legal issues, but that didn’t stop the San Jose Mercury News from posting it on the website:

We reported in February 2004 that a pro-athlete who plays at the Wachovia Center had urinated in a trash can at Bally’s Park Place in full view of staff and patrons. The urinator, whom we didn’t name at the time, was Iverson, and he was told by the casino not to return.

That Allen Iverson, he’s a real whiz kid! (Rimshot.)

Report: Iverson, casino staff clash over over-payment [KRT via San Jose Mercury News]
Earlier today: Allen Iverson, nun in off-court brawl