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Recently, OJ Mayo joined the long list of professional athletes who were caught using an illicit performance-enhancing substance and subsequently caught using a bad excuse to explain usage of said substance. Based on the now predictable response of …
Chalk up another NBA team fight to gambling debts. Last year it was finger guns getting into a life-changing fight with teammate Javaris Crittenton that grabbed headlines. This year, it’s two Memphis Grizzlies responsible for a fight rather …
In case you missed it Thursday, Kenneth Maurice Ziegler, the father of Grizzlies forward O.J. Mayo, was charged with attempted murder for going all Boris the Blade on a police officer. Ziegler could have avoided trouble if he just acted naturally, …
I stopped reading ESPN the Magazine a little over a year ago, about the time they made it perfectly clear that they didn’t give a crap about their product. The reason I give this background is to explain how I missed the following quote that …
Between the investigation of all the Reggie Bush stuff with the crooked Michael Michaels and the leaked O.J. Mayo information, it’s no wonder that USC decided not to bring Renardo Sidney aboard. Why would they want another problem on top of …
Two years ago they made the mistake of shipping out Brandon Roy before he had ever played a game for them. They got back Randy Foye. Exactly. So when the Timberwolves took O.J. Mayo with the third pick, as we predicted here at LBS, I wasn’t too …
I love the way drafts work. Anything an executive says is either the truth, or a fabrication in order to throw everyone off the scent. Such a fun mind game. But after the Timberwolves worked out O.J. Mayo, it was hard to take GM Jim Stack’s …
I’ve already made it pretty clear that I can’t stand OJ Mayo for some of his on-court antics. I also said the NCAA was right to investigate him for accepting tickets to an NBA game because that came to close to crossing the line for …
A lot of people are laughing off the NCAA investigation of USC freshman O.J. Mayo, one of our favorite athletes to be cleared of pot charges, for accepting free tickets to a Nuggets game from his friend Carmelo Anthony. At its most basic level, a …
I haven’t exactly treated USC star recruit, incoming PG OJ Mayo, in the nicest of manners –Â being the first sports blog to bring to light the report that he was cited for marijuana possession. But then I saw the video of OJ ending his …
I guess when you’re a highly touted athlete from West Virginia, you have no choice but to follow in the footsteps of fellow West Virginia natives Jason Williams and Randy Moss — maybe it’s some sort of initiation process. WANE TV in …