UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar recuperating at home after surgery
November 20, 2009
(ChattahBox) — As we previously reported, there has been a lot of concern for UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, who has been hospitalized due to mono and a mysterious intestinal disorder after he collapsed in Canada. UFC president Dana White was forced to make an announcement, a week or so ago at UFC 105, and his prognosis was bleak. Since then, White revealed that Lesnar has been dealing with his internal illness for a year. UFC president Dana White said this past Thursday that Lesnar had a “hole in in intestine” that was causing a leak into his stomach, which caused pain for Lesnar. “The doctor told him he hasn’t been right for a year,” White said. “His immune system has been trying to fight this thing and that’s why he was susceptible to getting sick.” Read more
Allen Iverson’s Grizzly days in Memphis are over
November 17, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Allen Iverson’s leave of absence, has turned into a permanent vacation from the Memphis Grizzlies. I think he played like a total of 3 games before realizing he wasn’t happy coming off the bench even though he was coming back from an injury. Memphis announced Monday that the team has ended its one-year contract with Iverson in what it called a mutual agreement.
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Paul Allen, Owner of Trail Blazers, Seahawks Battles Cancer Again
November 17, 2009
(ChattahBox)—Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Seahawks, has accomplished a lot in his life, but the biggest achievement has been his successful fight against cancer 25 years ago. And now the business mogul is having to face that dreaded prospect once again, as he announces his new cancer diagnosis. Read more
Michelle Wie gets 1st LPGA Tour win
November 16, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Entering the second from last tournament of the year, the big focus was who would win player of the year honors, between Shin Ji-yai and Lorena Ochoa. But Michelle Wie, stole the show, getting her first LPGA Tour win and perhaps a huge monkey off her back. Wie, who just turned 20 last month, finally broke through with a 3-under 69 for a two-stroke victory over Paula Creamer in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational. Wie finished off the victory in style, hitting a greenside bunker shot within a foot on the final hole to set up a birdie. Read more
Brock Lesnar seriously ill after mysterious collapse in Canada
November 15, 2009
(ChattahBox) — There’s an ominous air of mystery surrounding the health of UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, after it emerged he is seriously ill with an unnamed condition. Lesnar originally pulled out of a November 18 fight and reports suggested he had swine flu. The fight was rescheduled for January 2, but then it was announced Lesnar had mononucleosis. UFC president Dana White made made it clear last night this goes beyond mono after UFC 105, saying Brock is seriously ill in the hospital after collapsing in Canada: Read more
NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar battling leukemia
November 10, 2009
(ChattahBox) — NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia. The NBA’s all time leading scorer revealed on “Good Morning America” he was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia a rare cancer of the blood and bone marrow, but now feels his prognosis is encouraging. Abdul-Jabbar, 62, said: Read more
Opinion: Allen Iverson shows true colors in leave from Grizzlies
November 8, 2009
(ChattahBox) - Allen Iverson is still trying to spell team with an ‘I’. After departing the Denver Nuggets in a trade last year, which saw their fortunes immediately rise, while Iverson nearly single-handedly, turned the perennial contending Detroit Pistons into a dispirited first round playoff loser. The one-time league MVP, never known as a team player but talented enough to pull his teammates along with him, can’t seem to comprehend he’s lost a step or two. Still his talents are such that if he were willing to be a team player and come off the bench he may have drawn interest from playoff contending teams this past offseason. Read more
Damn Yankees Win Another World Series
November 5, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Congratulations to The NY Yankees who won their 27th World Series Thursday, after beating the Philadelphia Phillies 7 to 3 in Game 6. Phillies pitcher Pedro Martinez didn’t have his typical command or velocity and managed to barely last four innings, giving up four runs and three hits to the Yankees. A record crowd of 50,315 people, flashed yesterday’s New York Post poster of Martinez in a diaper and chanted “Who’s Your Daddy?”
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Andre Agassi admits to using crystal meth during playing days
October 28, 2009
(ChattahBox) — Tennis legend Andre Agassi serves up a bombshell in his new memoir, The book, “Open: An Autobiography,” which will be excerpted in People and Sports Illustrated this week. The book of his colorful life is interesting enough detailing his hair loss, his troubled marriage to Brooke Shields and the love he eventually found with his current wife, Steffi Graf. But Agassi’s upcoming autobiography apparently contains an admission that he used the recreational drug crystal meth, which is very disappointing to hear.
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Man charged with murder in stabbing of UConn football player
October 27, 2009
(ChattahBox) — A defense attorney says his client, John William Lomax, 21, is charged with murder in, the stabbing of UConn football player Jasper Howard. Lomax reportedly not a student at the university, is in UConn police custody on $2 million bail. Read more