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A correction in today’s Daily News:
A photo caption in Saturday’s paper accompanying a story on the Olympic Games’ Opening Day ceremonies misidentified a member of the U.S. men’s basketball team. Standing next to Kobe Bryant was teammate Carmelo Anthony, not Allen Iverson.
Ha! To note: Iverson’s getting a bit on in years, and he’s not on the Olympic team anymore. On the plus side, at least the Daily News didn’t confuse Iverson with new Nuggets signee Chris Andersen.
Correction 8/12/2008 [Daily News]
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dmac | 10:25 AM | 0 Comments
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Jul
17
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Oh no! The Sixers’ Samuel Dalembert, who actually became a Canadian citizen to play for the national basketball team, has left the team, just a few weeks before the Olympics.
The team’s coach wouldn’t comment on Sammy D’s status, saying he was only no longer with the team.
The Sports Network of Canada reported that Dalembert had a confrontation with a Canadian team official.[...]
After an 86-70 loss to Slovenia on Tuesday, [ex-76ers first round bust and Canadian coach Leo] Rautins criticized Dalembert’s effort in the postgame news conference, saying: “He never got on track offensively or defensively. I didn’t see him leave the floor to challenge people defensively, and on the offensive end he struggled not only with his shooting but with the decision-making behind the shots.”
Hey! We say that kind of stuff about Sammy all the time! I guess the idea this time is that he just couldn’t take it when it was coming from a Canadian.
Either that, or he just didn’t like hockey enough.
Dalembert parts ways with Canadian team [Daily News]
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dmac | 12:55 PM | 0 Comments
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Jun
30
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With a strong tailwind — 9.1 miles per hour — Tyson Gay ran an incredible 9.68 in the finals of the 100 meters at the Olympic trials over the weekend.
In an unrelated story, the American Family Association — a Christian group more concerned with hating gays than loving their neighbor — recently launched a news outlet, OneNewsNow, and directed editors to replace all instances of the word “gay” with “homosexual.” (I have no idea why.) And, naturally, the website ran a story on the wind-aided fastest time ever:
Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has.
His time of 9.68 seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials Sunday doesn’t count as a world record, because it was run with the help of a too-strong tailwind. Here’s what does matter: Homosexual qualified for his first Summer Games team and served notice he’s certainly someone to watch in Beijing.
“It means a lot to me,” the 25-year-old Homosexual said. “I’m glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me.” [...] After the race, Homosexual and Dix looked at each other and slapped palms, then hugged.
The story’s since been fixed, but Google News has preserved the headline: “Homosexual runs wind-aided 9.68 seconds to make Olympics.”
AFA’s search/replace function works perfectly [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]
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dmac | 10:51 AM | 2 Comments
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Nov
1
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Earlier this summer, 76ers center and master of the stupid foul Samuel Dalembert became a Canadian citizen so he could join Canada’s national basketball team.
Canada, who apparently is even worse at basketball than the 76ers, wanted Dalembert for its team to shore up the inside game, since Wayne Gretzky was at center during qualifying for the previous Olympics. Dalembert was born in Haiti and joined his parents in Montreal as a teenager; he returns there during the summer and was a basketball star in high school.
Now that he’s a Canadian citizen, he wants to make the team as good as possible. So he’s recruited two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash to join the team. He, apparently, hopes to scare Nash into joining the squad.
“He’s probably going to get mad, I am probably going to be his little angel-ghost,” Philadelphia 76ers centre Samuel Dalembert said. “I’ll be in his ear every time he is playing [us]. ‘Steve Nash, I need two hours from you. That’s all I need from you, two hours.’ “
Yes, his little angel-ghost! I’m sure Nash will be on the national team in no time.
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dmac | 3:01 PM | 3 Comments
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