I know this isn't the right place for this (mods, feel free to move it somewhere) but I couldn't find a good place to put this and I didn't think it warrented its own thread.

Anyway, a very funny vid of Jimmy Kimmel and Eminem playing a game of 1 on 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h84yr...sheed%2Ecom%2F

Well, maybe Ron Ron hasn't quite gotten it all figured out yet.

"Ron Artest, talking to children as part of his community service sentence, defended his actions in one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14378730/from/RS.3/

New changes bring up brand new questions

For the first time in several years, the Detroit Pistons have made significant changes during the NBA's off season.

Therefore, this season will be the first time the Pistons will have a new look on the court, since they traded for Rasheed Wallace.

Other things have a different feel as well, like in the front office. Pistons President and general manager, Joe Dumars seems to be answering more questions about his transactions then he has had to in the past. As always time will tell if this was a good off season or not. Many people in the Pistons organization have said they think they can be a better team this season, then last. However, the Detroit Pistons will not have a better team than last season; meaning they did not have a positive off season.

Chris Acker, older brother of Detroit Pistons rookie Alex Acker, recently signed with the ABA's Pittsburgh Xplosion. Chris Acker played his college ball at Chaminade in Hawaii, and spent some time with the ABA's Detroit Wheels earlier this season. He made quite an impression in his Pittsburgh debut, exploding (or is it "xploding") for 27 points, eight assists, and six rebounds.

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Many people probably do not even recognize the name Earl Lloyd. But unlike the well-recognized Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Lloyd never became a household name.

But the Alexandria native is one of the key athletic figures in our time because of the social implications he had in the National Basketball Association and for the grace and class in which he accepted his role as a barrier breaker.

Lloyd attended school at Parker Gray in Alexandria and was the first African-American to break the color barrier in the NBA. He did so on Oct. 31, 1950. He spent nine years in the NBA and was a member of the NBA champion Syracuse Nationals team in the 1954-55 season. He concluded his playing career with the Detroit Pistons in 1960, and eventually became the Pistons' head coach — the second African-American to ever be named a head coach in the league.

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At 68, Adubato enjoys coaching and teaching -- he spent 18 seasons as a high school and college coach in New Jersey before getting his first NBA job -- and he likes the lifestyle of the WNBA. The league's short season allows him to spend most of the year at home in Orlando, Fla.

"I could have gone back [to the NBA as an assistant], but I wanted to watch my 15-year-old son play in high school," says Adubato, who got his first NBA coaching job as an assistant to Dick Vitale with the Detroit Pistons. "This gives me all the time in the world to do it. I still enjoy coaching. This is fun. It is a great challenge. It is four months. It is not 11 months. Thirty-four games plus the playoffs -- that's a piece of cake."

Ronnie Carlwell's unselfishness, hard work and overall zest for life has earned him the 2006 Will Robinson Endowed Scholarship at Illinois State, marking the first repeat honoree in the history of the award.

The scholarship honors Robinson, the Redbird basketball coach from 1970 to 1975. He was the first African-American Division I college head basketball coach to serve at a predominantly white university. Robinson has served as a high school coach, college coach and NBA administrator over the past seven decades. A 2003 Missouri Valley Conference Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Robinson worked in the Detroit Pistons' front office for nearly 30 years after leaving Illinois State.

Coatesville thrilled by Rip’s visit

City residents young and old were thrilled to see Richard "Rip" Hamilton when the NBA star arrived at Ash Park on Friday afternoon.

Hamilton, the Detroit Pistons player who grew up in Coatesville and starred on the Coatesville Area Senior High School basketball team, was back in town on Friday to host the 7th Annual Rip City Celebration.

The C-Billups

Slam Magazine's Kicks issue has our favorite point guard on the cover, along with his new signature shoes called The C-Billups.





Central tanks full for next season

... playoffs. Two of those teams, the Cavaliers and the Detroit Pistons, advanced and played each other in the conference semifinals. ...

THE PISTONS: World games serve as tune-up for Delfino

link: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...TS03/608200650

Is Laimbeer elbowing his way into NBA?
By Bob Kravitz

Even years after his retirement as the worst of all the Detroit "Bad Boys,'' Bill Laimbeer still inspires a special kind of hatred. Maybe it's the way he played, way back in the day when he was trading haymakers with Larry Bird. Or the way he now prowls the Detroit Shock sideline, looking like a dancing bear, constantly bellowing at the officials with that Eddie Haskell-on-a-doughnut-bender look on his mug.