Hall of Fame coach Chuck Daly has passed away from cancer at the age of 78. While most of the tributes you read will focus on his two titles with the Bad Boy Pistons and the job he did leading the Dream Team in Barcelona, his career also included another chapter worth noting.

He coached the New Jersey Nets for two years in the early-90′s, at a time when the team looked  poised to become the league’s next elite franchise, before tragedy derailed them.

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David Feherty is a very good golf analyst for CBS.

There is nothing in that last sentence that indicates he is qualified to comment on the current political climate in the United States, nor on its various Military outposts around the globe.

Yet, someone asked. And.. he answered.

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So we finally found out what happened in the Cleveland Cavaliers huddle 20 years ago. Michael Jordan was lucky fat Larry Nance didn’t guard him. He would have just put belly on his back.

-H/T Hot Clicks

Everyone remembers this great .gif (above). Come to find out it is a clip taken from the new movie, “The Hangover.” And thanks to FirstCuts we get the extended trailer where Mike Tyson sings Phil Collins’ incredible song, “In the Air Tonight.” Iron Mike is so versatile. He is good at so many things.

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When we were younger, my brother used to buy EA Sports’ NCAA football every year, then spend every night for like 2 weeks methodically entering the real names of every player on every team (backup linemen included.)

He had to do this, of course, because NCAA rules prohibit the inclusion of names on any product.  But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t tell who was who. That big, speedy QB#10 on Texas was Vince Young. We all knew it. But, we accepted the system because that’s how it was and no one thought to say anything different.

Enter Sam Keller. The former Nebraska QB has filed suit against EA, claiming they owe him money for using his likeness. And not just him. It’s a class action suit, filed on behalf of every college football player ever depicted in the game.  Did you play D1 football? Congratulations. You’re suing Electronic Arts.

The last episode of Scrubs may have aired last night.  So, after 8 years, let’s give the series a proper SportsCracklePop goodbye. 

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Derek Jeter does some advanced scouting.

I kid! It was a joke. Do not take my comment seriously. Chris Hansen does not need to show up at my door.

So he doesn’t have to be asked to do things like this. WTF!!!! Davidson must have some great food, because I don’t remember the college cafeteria being that blazin of a place. Marriott Food Services used “Grade D” meat at Fordham University. Who knew that was a legal grade.

Maybe I just went to the wrong school.

Number 99 has declared chapter 11. Wayne Gretzky’s Phoenix Coyotes are bankrupt and could be moving back to their ancestral home in Canada. (Full Disclosure: I have a Teemu Selanne Winnipeg Jets jersey that I would happily bring out of retirement if the opportunity presented itself.)

It’s obviously not an everyday occurrence for a team to be teetering on the precipice of insolvency, so to learn more, we turn to Eric Bolling, co-anchor of Happy Hour on the Fox Business Network, and a trader (and former board member) at the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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Victoria Beckham unveiled a new photo from her ad campaign with fashion house Emporio Armani this morning.

I wonder how many pictures you can get for the £32 million deal?

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