Today's Links

• Gordon's four point play sends Bulls to OT with Clippers, where Deng and Rose lead them to a win.
• Eric Gordon says drugs led to a rift in Indiana basketball last year. You mean that wasn't a peace pipe?
• Top ten New Year's resolutions for Chicago athletes. Make that athletes, plus Rex Grossman.
• Just the Yankees being the Yankees. Manny Ramirez is their latest target. Soon their peanut vendors will all be ex-top salesmen from Fortune 500 companies.
• Billy Sims is sorry for being an ass during the Heisman presentation. It's okay, no one was really watching.
• Letterman talks with Mike Singletary...kind of. Don't worry, the pants stay on the whole time.

Samurai Mike Uses Bare Ass as Motivational Tool

Mike Singletary, the new head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, has had a memorable start to his career. To recap his short stint: He sent Vernon Davis to the showers in the middle of a game, gave a fiery post-game speech, and delivered a memorable post-game press conference. Well the fun is just beginning apparently, as stories have begun to leak about his halftime motivational speech to the players last week:

Singletary's halftime speech to the team included the fledgling head coach dropping his pants, showing the players his bare ass, and pointing to it, apparently as a visual aid to display Singletary's belief that the team was getting its ass kicked.

According to the reports, Singletary then addressed the team for three or four minutes with his pants around his ankles.

His eyes have always instilled fear in the hearts of his opponents, but if the ass of the starting middle linebacker of the greatest team in NFL history can't motivate his own team, the 9ers are a lost cause.

Today's Links

• More ripping on Larry Hughes by Tremendous Upside Potential. Give the guy a break already...just kidding, screw him.
• A Cubs fan tells a story about being in Vegas and seeing Pete Rose and Mike Maddux. Pete Rose says some funny stuff.
  
• A funny list of search terms that led people to Luol's Dong. My favorite? "Dangerous creampie". I don't remember the Dong covering that, but who knows I guess.
• Sam Smith is back as a beat writer covering the Bulls. His new employer? The Bulls. I'm sure that will make for some very independent and uncensored reporting. Oh well, at least we'll get to hear his crazy trade ideas again. Remember when he wanted to trade Pippen for Shawn Kemp? Oh Sam.
• Aramis Ramirez wins the Hank Aaron Award for offensive prowess. This was voted on by fans online. I'm not sure what's more retarded; the award itself, or the fact that fans voted for Aramis. Fans should never be allowed to decide anything. That's why Vince Carter starts every all-star game.
• Mike Singletary's post-game press conference. He sends Vernon Davis back to the locker room and just seems overall pissed off.
  

Today's Links

• Looks like Graham may have replaced Vasher as the starter. Apparently Vasher might not even be hurt anymore.
• Derrick Rose gets three wishes from a genie but the genie dicks him over on the wishes. It's a funny read.
  
• Is Singletary trying to assemble an all-85 Bears coaching staff in Frisco? I'm on board with it.
• Scott Eyre thinks he only had one bad game with the Cubs and that's why he got moved. Ummm, Scott, I think perhaps you're mistaken about how many bad games you had.
• So apparently Brenly is being considered for the Brewers job. Word is, Gracie would replace him in the booth.