It’s not our intent to report sports scores on the regular, but after a 9 game winning streak the Lakers have lost to their hometown rivals. We have nothing against the Clippers, but being natives to the city we remember when they were from San Diego, and more importantly when they were terrible. This type of talk might piss a few folks off, but being LA-based, the Lakers have continued to dominate the landscape since the 80s.

It’s a common misperception that musicians and jocks are mutually exclusive commodities. Au contraire, mon frère: many of music’s most innovative and popular acts are major fans of sport – if not stellar athletes themselves. Nowhere is that more apparent than the World Wide Web…

You would have to be under a rock around here not to hear the news, Lakers were able to put away the Magic in 5 games, not even waiting to return to LA for a game 6. Kobe has been vindicated, and Obama shows he knows how to pick em.

Lil Wayne is a sports freak. Not only does the rap superstar have his own ESPN column, he had the cable sports network logo tattooed on his skin to commemorate it.

Although he’s been notoriously fickle over the course of this year’s NBA playoffs (he’s been seen on the sidelines rooting for the Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets at different points)…

Anyone who knows basketball and jazz can see the relationship between the two pursuits: a marriage of form and improvisation, of individualism with teamwork; a primacy of rhythm (it’s all about tempo); and a requirement that players respond to one another’s choices and to rapidly changing situations in real time. Just as Kareem Abdul-Jabar was famous for listening to artists like Sonny Rollins…