Russell Westbrook has always been a different type of NBA player. His relentless ability to get a triple-double at will has drawn the former MVP both scorn and praise, depending on who’s talking. Off the court, this different brand might be even more apparent. From his fashion sense to his personality. Westbrook runs differently. One of his lesser-known side businesses helps to highlight his strange proclivities.
Russell Westbrook takes the court Westbrook first shot onto the national spotlight playing next to Kevin Love at UCLA. Read More...
Following his career as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, Tony Romo made a seamless transition into the broadcast booth. Since joining CBS Sports as the lead color analyst, Romo has received critical praise for his broadcasting work and fans have found that he brings lots of enthusiasm to the booth alongside play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz. Romo’s wife, Candice Crawford, also thinks her husband is a natural who will continue to thrive in his broadcasting career and she knows what it takes firsthand. Read More...
Hoop DreamsTwenty years after the landmark documentary was cruelly snubbed at the Oscars, we take a look at where the principals are today
In 1986, filmmakers Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert set out to film a 30-minute PBS documentary on playground basketball as a window into Chicago’s street culture. Some 300 hours of footage and three years of editing later, Hoop Dreams emerged overnight as a landmark documentary. Roger Ebert labeled it the best film of the 1990s (ahead of Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas and Fargo), and its exclusion from the Best Documentary category at the 1995 Academy Awards led to a restructuring of how the category was evaluated. Read More...
