Vick, B*rbaro Stories Converge In (Where Else?) China

Today in the Courier Times, diminutive 76ers guard Lou Williams says he supports Michael Vick, who will be sentenced next month for his guilty plea in a dogfighting case. You know, he’s not into dogfighting, but Vick attended his high school games when Vick was on the Falcons and Williams was a high schooler in the ATL, so he hopes he can get his life back on track once he’s out of jail. (Horse people, of course, want him executed.)

Anyway, ever since the Michael Vick dogfighting story broke, I’ve been using a joke about how the sport (uh, whatever) I really want to see is horsefighting. It combines the brutality of horse racing and dogfighting with the gambleability of, well, horse racing and dogfighting.

Turns out, like most cool things in this country, horsefighting is made in China. Yes, Britain’s Telegraph. According to the paper, the sport has been celebrated for over five hundred years in China and is even on some tourists’ itineraries!

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Iverson: Celebrities Always Being Hounded About Their Dogfighting Operations

Noted criminologist Allen Iverson held his annual Allen Iverson Summer Classic down in Virginia over the weekend, and, of course, came to the defense of noted alleged dog abuser Mike “Ron Mexico” Vick.

“It’s always been like that from day one since there was sports,” he said. “There was always a bull’s-eye on us. Everybody doesn’t love athletes. Some people feel like we’re spoiled. Some people feel that because we are rich, we think we are above the law, we’re better than everybody else.

“But it’s not like that, but some people perceive us that way. And they give us a hard time about it.”

Iverson then said some on-point stuff about athletes unfairly being expected to give up their old friends once they make it big, but let’s just focus on the stupid shit.

Iverson offers support for Vick [Hampton Daily Press]