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Jason Collins Comes Out As Gay

NBA veteran Jason Collins became the first active male player in the four major American professional sports to come out as gay.

The 34-year-old center, who has played for six teams in 12 seasons, wrote a first-person account that was posted on Sports Illustrated's website Monday. Collins finished the season with the Washington Wizards and is now a free agent. He says he wants to keep playing.

''If I had my way, someone else would have already done this,'' he writes. ''Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.''

Collins played in a Final Four for Stanford and reached two NBA Finals. His twin brother, Jarron, was also a longtime NBA center. Collins says he told his brother he was gay last summer.

Under 25 and Married

Congratulations guys on getting married. Before you go wash-off that wild honeymoon love scent permeating from your loins, I'd like to point out your entire life just ended before it began.

Guys, I'm talking to you, I understand that you don't know how to live on your own without your mom. But there is no better way to learn than to dive right in. Your mom will be there to bail you out. Trust me.

For the guy that just graduated highschool. Has his highschool sweetheart in tow and you're both heading off to college. Do not, I repeat do not, let her talk you in to getting married or having kids before your 30. Live life man. Get out, pierce something, smoke something, drinking something, steal something. Experience life. You're probably saying, "I don't have money for all that life experience." To which I say, then you don't have money for a wife and kids. Duh! Don't let your penis dictate your choices, not matter how hard (no pun intended) it is.

Let me tell you what happens when you marry or have kids young. You end up regressing at a later age. Your life becomes family, work, kids and struggles. Two of those are out of your control; work and struggles. Why compound that by adding a family and kids? You don't have to be alone, but experience some failures in life first so when you do marry and have kids you've got some battle scars to show you deserve it.

Manipulative Bitch!

You jump imediately. Go out of your way. Old men risk their hips. You do it with a big smile of hope on your face. Nothing gets in your way. You'll backstab your best-friend to do it.

What are we talking about here? Being a gullible idiot for a woman.

I may not be the biggest womans-lib supporter and I do believe in being a gentleman. However, women that manipulate men with their simple helplessness eye lash bats is just damn discusting. Everyday I watch as married men, single men, and some women just fall prey to the simplest task just because a woman who's self esteem has plummeted so low they use their sensuality for gain. It's a trifling shame.

What the hell did you burn your bras for? Why did you scream from the mountain top "you're just as good as men"? When all you do is use your bosoms, walk, eyes, and ass for personal gain. Knowing damn well in your mind you will never give the guy your toying with a turtles wink of a chance at getting them sugar walls. You know, as well as we do, that's all we want.

Somethings wrong with me. I see right through that crap. I'm not walking you somewhere your own feet can carry. I'm not falling for your little Miss helpless and you're not getting anything out of me because you chose a low cut top this morning.

Go pull your crap on your husband, if you can get him from under his younger firmer assistant. Manipulative bitch!

OKC's Westbrook Out, Needs Surgery

All-Star point guard Russell Westbrook will have surgery to repair cartilage in his right knee and be out indefinitely, dealing a harsh blow to the Oklahoma City Thunder's championship chances.

General manager Sam Presti said Friday that the Thunder had not yet scheduled Westbrook's surgery and would not have an accurate timeline for his return until after the procedure was done. No one would rule out Westbrook's possible return if Oklahoma City keeps advancing in the playoffs, and All-Star teammate Kevin Durant only said his teammates ''hope'' Westbrook can play again this postseason.

''We're not trying to rush him or bring him back ahead of schedule. We want to make sure he's healthy and his knee is right,'' Durant said. ''That's our only concern with it right now. ... We have to come together as a team and worry about the basketball. All he has to worry about is him getting healthy.''

Lindsey Hunter Wants to Interview for Detroit Pistons Job

First let me start off by saying… let his ass GO!

The Phoenix Suns have not yet decided if they want to retain interim head coach Lindsey Hunter on a more permanent basis.

Of course, it's possible Hunter will make the decision for them.

According to Detroit Pistons pre and post-game host Matt Dery, Hunter is interested in the team's coaching vacancy.

Hunter, who guided the Suns to a 12-29 record, spent the bulk of his playing career in the Motor City and was a member of the Pistons' 2004 NBA Championship team.

The team recently parted with head coach Lawrence Frank, who was with the team for just two seasons. The Pistons went 54-94 under his leadership.

Reblogged from our friends at Arizona Sports

Everyone Wants Cherry Pie, No One Wants to Bake It

"Everyone wants cherry pie no one want to bake it" is a metaphor for people wanting greatness but refuse to work for it. 

I live in a land called America. Yes I may bitch about this country, it's government and the state of it - but it's America. The land of opportunity. You can have anything your heart desires with some hardwork and dedication.

I'm bewildered by the people who just don't want to put in the extra effort to make something great. Even if the "cherry pie ingredients" are right there in front of their face. Most people have to save money, buy a car, gas it up, drive to the store, push their own cart, pull the items off the shelf, place them in the shopping buggy, pay for all the items, get them home then make the pie. That's another metaphor for doing all the leg work.

When it comes to hard work its exactly that, hardwork. Having my own internet radio show is fun from the outside looking in, but peal back the curtain - it's a lot of hard work and takes a strong team. Communication. Planning. Executing. It's not as simple as it looks.

If I'm surrounded by people that don't want to put the ingredients of the pie together, even after the ingredients are prepared for them, it drains the living life blood out of me. I don't understand it and I never will. My father broke his back to build a life for us as children, he's sixty something years old now and still leaves his house every morning to continue breaking his back for his children.

Nothing of greatness is going to come easy, nothing easy is going to contain greatness. Step up make it happen cause it won't happen by chance.

The Injustice of Junk Mail

Nothing worse than not getting around to checking your mail for a day or so to discover your mail box is stuffed with mail. Being diligent you stop and begin to cypher through it just to find that 99.8% of the mail is junk. The .2% is what you were expecting anyway… bills.

Companies masking their sales pitches in "check" form or "urgent notices". Why are we fighting to keep the US Postal service in business? I understand there are thousands of jobs at risk, but if we just train our postal service workers to use email they wouldn't want to work for the US Postal service resulting in NO damn junk mail.

Time is of the essence in many average peoples lives. Being required to take a piece of mail that looks like its something of note just to discover its some make-shift mortgage company trying to get you to refinance through their offshore account is rediculous. Stop waiting my time, its bad enough I have to deal with spam. I don't want spam in paper or congealed meat form.

Think about this; what elevation in life has junk mail provided you? Has a piece of junk mail ever saved you money? Made you run to the nearest advertised location and purchase the product? Saved your life? NO! It's made you do nothing more but go the internet to see how you can get the special online.

Here's what I do. I take the junk mail and write or stamp return to sender. This results in the sender of the junk mail having to pay for postage twice.

As for door hangers. I'll take the door hanger to the company that hung the hanger and put it on their damn door. Yes I know I can just put out a no soliciation sign… I have one! They ignore it!

Its 2013 for heavens sake. Enough with junk mail. It's so 1950.

Rachael Ray Show Hurt My Big Fat Feelings

Big fat overweight teenager Christina Pagliarolo is suing the Rachael Ray show for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to TMZ. Christina participated in a special show spotlighting overweight teens. She claims that the trainers working for the show yelled at her as she hiked a mountain, sped up a stairclimber to make her fall and continued to yell at her.

Oh poor fat chick! (this is where is gets ugly) Listen  you sensitive overweight tub of the unsexed womanhood. What the hell did you expect? Let me tell the story of how this really went down… shall I.

"Fat teenage girl, likes school jock since 4th grade. He wants nothing to do with her back then or now. One afternoon as the fat girl ensconced herself into a couch watching the Rachael Ray show while shoveling KFC wings dipped in Dairy Queen, the fat girl cry. The show tugged at her enlarged heart strings and offered her a chance to loose weight. Teen tub-a-lard hoofs it over to her webcam, cries into it, and emails the Rachael Ray show. Producers of the show get the email; after throwing up because of the pure magnitude of this touch-less she-monster, decided to hire the Shipping Wars trucks to haul her ass to the show. The What's Eating Gilbert Grape mothers body double is hit in the face with reality when she realized it wasn't going to be a sit down interview with Rachel, she was actually going to have to put forth physical effort. Because of her emotionally unstable mindset due to a lackluster relationship with her dad, she didn't like the beefcake trainers telling her what to do. When she got shipped back home via FedEx oversized freight, the teen mack-ass noticed the only weight she lost was taking off the horseshoes the iron worker mounted before she left for New York. Because she knew if she sued the show her facebook page would get as big as the left side of the cliff she calls an ass. So she did. In hopes that the notoriety would bridge the very small gap between her and school jock that has since come out the closet and plays for the NFL."

I think that pretty much covers it. Right Christina?

Christina Pagliarolo, trainers are supposed to be tuff, hurt your feelings, push you over the limit - grow a pair you wretched fat ass puff. Think I don't know the struggle, I do, but I'm not trying to sue over a failed attempt to get TV help for free. Get over yourself.

Next, Pop-Tart Ice Cream Sandwhiches

Following Taco Bell's Doritos Locos lead, many chains want to partner with other popular brands and food items. The latest is Carl's Jr., which is testing Strawberry Pop-Tart Ice Cream Sandwiches.

According to Foodbeast, a Newport Beach, CA, location of Carl's Jr. is testing the new ice cream sandwich. The treat consist of a scoop of vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two strawberry Pop-Tarts. An image of a sign for the product boasts that the dessert is "hand-scoopep."

This new menu item is definitely in line with previous Carl's Jr. dessert additions, like the Orea cookie ice cream sandwich. That dessert was also "hand-scooped" vanilla ice cream, but it came in between two extra-large Oreo cookies.

So far there's no word on whether or not this latest creation will make it past the testing phase. Unlike the oversized Oreo ice cream sandwiches, this is definitely something that Pop-Tar fans could make at home without needing to venture to their nearest Carl's Jr. locations.

Repost from our friends at Delish

Earth Day

In honor of Earth Day, one of my all time favorite Micheal Jackson videos. Enjoy and love mother earth!

Simple or Real Friend?

A simple friend, when visiting, acts like a guest. A real friend opens your refrigerator and helps himself (and doesn't feel even the least bit weird shutting your 'beer/soda drawer' with his foot.

A simple friend has never seen you cry. A real friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.

A simple friend doesn't know your parents first names. A real friend has their phone numbers in his address book.

A simple friend brings a bottle of wine to your party. A real friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean.

A simple friend hates it when you call after they've gone to bed. A real friend asks you why you took so long to call.

A simple friend seeks to talk with you about your problems. A real friend seeks to help you with your problems.

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history. A real friend could blackmail you with it.

A simple friend things the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend calls you after you had a fight.

A simple friend expects you to always be there for them. A real friend expects you to always be there for you!

Where do you fit? Simple or Real

On The Next FatGuyRadioShow

Exclusive 1on1 interview with the spectacular Motown group, The Miracles. Saturday April 20, 2013!  Live at fatguyradioshow.com

A Happy Birthday??

Oh boy!

Rethinking Hand Washing

Everyone uses the restroom. Men mainly are the ones who physically come in contact with themselves during a bladder evacuation. The main purpose of washing your hands is to prevent the spread of germs. But have you thought about the way we currently wash our hands? Normally we wash after the use of the restroom.

Can you imagine how many germs we are putting on our junk when we unzip then handle for smaller version of ourselves? Maybe we should be washing our hands before we use the restroom instead of after. Our happy-johns throughout the day come in contact with what? Fabric and detergent residue. It's not often exposed to the germs floating in the air unless we're running around with our pants down.

With that being the case how many germs are we sharing with ourselves by touching ourselves to take a wiz. Millions. Then we go home and share ourselves with our partners therefore exposing them to the germs we have on our hands when we don't wash our hands before using the restroom.

I'm not a scientist, but I am a germafobe. I'll be playing it safe, washing before and after. I don't want the yuckies on my dangler.

Jack Hoffamn's 69 Yard TouchDown

This is touching, so I had to share. I first learned of this video on a sports talk show, FullCourtPressRadio. Enjoy this, if you havn't already seen it.

Alone On Your Birthday

Same time, same date, every year its my birthday. Is spending your birthday alone a sign that no one really cares?

This Tuesday, April 16, is going to be my 30-something birthday. There are no plans. No special events, outings, parties, what-not. Nothing. It's just working out to being another… Tuesday.

I guess it's really not all that bad. I can celebrate the fact that I've completed another trip around the sun.

Maybe when you reach a certain age the old adage of having something special for your birthday just wears off. We're either to old for a clown or two heavy for a pony, what else is there? I drink more often when its not my birthday, so whats the point!

I'll most likely wake up Tuesday morning, grab a cup of coffee from the kitchen. Stay in my pajamas all day and watch Roseanne reruns on TV Land before I retire back up to my room to sleep off the excitement of being in the living room.

This post is really becoming depressing.

Maybe it's a sign that I am a big asshole not deserving of true friends. Hmmm? Who knows. It's just another year closer to death. Unless I die on Monday. (how freaky would it be if I did and this was my last post?)

:-)

Sexsomnia

Sexsomnia is a real thing, and it just got a guy off in court. (no pun intended)

A Danish man has been acquitted of molesting two teenage girls after a positive diagnosis for sexsomni. This the term is a locker-room joke concocted by hormonal teenage boys? Nope, it's a real thing - a disorder that causes people to engage in sexual acts while they're sleeping.

The two 17-year-old girls accused the 32-year-old man of touching them and making sexual motions. But when former girlfriends told him he'd been naughty with them in the same fashion, he visited a sleep specialist, who confirmed the affliction after examining his bran patterns.

Don't try using this as an excuse for bad behavior: It's extremely rare, and even the prosecutor in this case admits, "It's not something that can be faked."

A $400 Billion Pack of Smokes

Imagine walking into your neighborhood convenience store to grab a soda and a pack of smokes. You get to the counter and the cashier looks at you and says, "that will be $400 billions and 89 cents please". Why the 89 cents? Cause you picked up the soda.

It may not happen exactly like that. In President Obamas budget tax increase plan, part of the $400 billion tax hike includes a tax increase on cigerettes. The current tax on a pack of smokes is $1.01. If the budget is rolled out, cigarettes would reportedly go to $1.95 tax providing an estimated $78 billion over the next decade to pay for preschool programs.

I'm a smoker, so I come from a place of familierarity. Remember when smokers got shafted in 2009 when Obama enacted a 63 cent tax increase? Where the hell is all that money now?

I understand tobacco is not the best thing for you and there's nothing we can do to avoid the tax increase because 5 out of 10 Americas hate smokers. But the majority of smokers are lower income families already struggling under this administration. Washington is getting really good at masking bad decisions with healthier presumptions.

How about a tax hike on oil companies? Or maybe higher payroll and investment taxes on the rich? The tax increases Americans have been screaming throughout his entire presidency. Again I say, no wonder other countries laugh at us.

But have no fear, I've got an alternative. HaloCigs E Cigerettes. A tobacco free, smoke free and now government free way to smoke. Order yours today. Click the banner below.

Tax hike that Obama!

Taco Bell Vows Healthier Food

What the hell is happening to this world?

Taco Bell is reportily testing a range of healthier menu options and hopes to offer new items by the year 2020. The company plans to align themselves with the federal guidelines for fat and caloric intake. Which means a single meal would have one-third of the government's recommendation for daily caloric intake of 2,000 to 2,500.

I don't know about you, but when I go to Taco Bell I'm not expecting to eat healthy - hell I'm not expecting real meat. I'm expecting something covered in paraffin based cheese, garnished with liquid onion and served to me in plastic. If I want healthy options I'll eat a cardboard sandwich from Subway.

Taco Bell is Taco Bell. Their stock isn't dropping. Their customer base isn't slowing. Why the need for the change. The federal government isn't threatening to close them down. Why sort something that doesn't need sorting.

Damn it Taco Bell you're ruining a good thing. We went along with you when you introduced the fresco menu. We didn't buy it, but the fat house-frow yentas that wanted to feel healthier ordered off that no flavored loose bean menu. Why crap out an idea like this! Grant it, its going to take until 2020 to roll out, but your gambling with fat people futures. Who wants a healthy America? If that's the case we should change our name to France.

What's next, boiled chicken at KFC?

Full story here: MSN Money