We always assumed that when pro athletes are waiting around for a team to sign them, they pass the time by practicing "making it rain" techniques on their cats, or perhaps finally getting around to painting a watercolor portrait of themselves, shirtless, lying on the hood of a red Hummer.
Such activities, it seems, might be limited to unemployed athletes such as Barry Bonds and Pacman Jones -- those who have had enormous checks deposited into their accounts monthly for more than a couple of y
Miami's favorite pill-popping, adopted-father Frenching, nonsensical metaphor making (or is "I can play basketball with the moon" a simile?) rambling blogger Lil Wayne has used his ESPN.com soapbox to unleash a rant about troubled Cowboys defensive back Pacman Jones' indefinite suspension from the NFL: I don't think the Pacman Jones situation is sad at all. I do not
think Pacman Jones should be in the NFL. If I was the commissioner, I'd
kick him out. They keep giving him chances and he keeps mes
Robinson blew $20,000 a night on strippers, his brother claims.With three seconds left in the game and his University of Michigan squad trailing Seton Hall by one point, 22-year old guard Rumeal Robinson lined up for two all-important free throws. The NCAA Division 1 basketball title hung in the balance. The zen-like junior fluttered one and then another shot through the net, sealing the 1989 championship for the Wolverines and forever etching Robinson's name into college basketball lore.
​They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. We haven't been quite this flattered in a very long time.Three weeks ago, Riptide published a story about the very drastic fall of former pro basketball player Rumeal Robinson. We used court documents filed in Miami-Dade court and a revealing interview with Robinson's brother, Donald Barrows, to show how a guy could end up virtually homeless and under indictment for financial crimes after a lucrative NBA career.
The short answer: strippers