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blue & white forever! 2010-2011 NBA CHAMPS!

my team baby! finally! sweet revenge and redemption!

DALLAS MAVERICKS! 2010-1011 nba champions!

reggie wayne!

my favorite receiver from my favorite team. marvin harrison used to be my favorite but reggie has taken his place.

Mayweather Rips Pacquiao In Racist Video Rant

Floyd Mayweather Jr. unleashed a profanity-filled racist and homophobic Internet rant against Manny Pacquiao.

“I’m on vacation for about a year, about a year. As soon as we come off vacation, we’re going to cook that little yellow chump…So they ain’t gotta worry about me fighting the midget…Once I stomp the midget, I’ll make that make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.”

“‘Poochiao’ got three losses and two draws and been knocked out twice,” Mayweather said. “So, like I said before, once I beat him it’s going to be a cakewalk and it’s on to the next. … We know Pacquiao made $6 million in his last fight and Floyd Mayweather made $65 million in his last fight. Three losses, two draws. Ohhh, hell no, this is America baby. We built on winning. Step your game up, f——t. … That mother f——- Pacquiao, he can’t speak no English. He never seen a contract he didn’t like. Mother f——- signed with two companies [Top Rank and Golden Boy]. Look it up. And then this mother f——— with Nike only got 70 Gs. How stupid can a mother f——- be? Reebok gave me a million dollars for three weeks. I wore Reebok s—- for a week for a million dollars. … This mother f———‘s name is Emmanuel. He got a fake name, taking power pellets,” an apparent reference to performance enhancing drugs.

Pacquiao released a statement through his publicist, Fred Sternburg, saying only: “The video speaks for itself.”

my thoughts: mayweather is a pussy. and when did filipinos become known for sushi? kudos to pac-man for taking the high road.

Debunking The Ridiculous, Racist "Nigeria-Germany" Scoreboard E-Mail Forward

i keep seeing this on tumblr and the world wide web of “truth”. it would help if people double check the sources before postin’ stuff, especially people on tumblr.

I’m sure you’ve seen it by now: a purported screenshot from “Nigeria and Germany’s World Cup game” that, thanks to some poorly placed country abbreviations, spells out a pretty vile epithet. It’s so, so fake, for so many obvious reasons.

Examples of people who neglected to do some basic factchecking here, here, here, here and here.

It’s painfully easy to look up Germany’s World Cup matches, and what do you know? No Nigeria on their schedule!

But that’s actually a meaningless quibble, because the alleged screenshot doesn’t even show the Nigerian team at all. Those clearly aren’t Nigeria’s colors, or their flag. It’s actually the flag and kit of Niger, a completely different nation. (In addition, Nigeria is abbreviated NGA by FIFA.)

So, okay, now you’re feeling a little dumb, but Nigeria, Niger, what’s the difference? In their 102 years of existence, the German National Team has never once played Niger. Go ahead. Look it up yourself.

So it’s fake, but it’s not a photoshop. Go watch a couple seconds of gameplay from EA Sports’ 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, and notice the scoreboard. Yes, it’s a closely cropped screenshot from a video game.

It’s definitely not the scenario put forth by one enthusiastic emailer: “dont have a screenshot or anything, but when NIGERIA played GERMANY, ESPN displayed NIG - GER on the screen for like 2 hours. i refuse to believe that was an accident.” He’s half right.

Send an email to Barry Petchesky, the author of this post, at barryp@deadspin.com.

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Sports Science- LeBron’s Chase Down Block

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this is our year Mavs

hope so. dirk and j-kidd needs a title! the pieces are there. just need to win the battle of texas series first.