The Unending Juxtaposition Continues: The King and His Airness

This mash up of LeBron and Jordan's latest Nike commercials is absolute brilliance and serves as a strange warning to both LeBron and basketball fans. LeBron: work harder. Fans and critics: never judge the present while still occupying it.  Questions: what's to be made of the fact that Nike's commercials for LeBron can even be boiled down to recycled bits of His Airness' ad reel?  Is LeBron a parody of Michael? Or full blown satire?

Right now, unfortunately, it's starting to feel a lot like farce.

Time Waster: Happy Holidays

The latest MVPuppets spots from Nike hit the intranets over the weekend. And if these recent ads are any indication, they will just keep getting better. Now, I don't want to spoil the surprise, so I'll just let you know that they feature a couple of hip-hop's finest. Enjoy.

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The Packers and Favre have finally reached a compromise, the Packers confirmed that he won't show up for camp Sunday. Packers' management will now try and reach some sort of resolution to the on-going un-retirement saga, SI.com reports.

Antonio Magarito defeats Miguel Cotto, claiming the WBA 147-pound title

Casey Blake goes 2-3 in his Dodger debut

Atlanta Braves score 9 runs in the 4th inning but still fall to the Phillies 10-9

Rich Harden is still looking for his first win with the Cubbies, lose to Marlins 3-2 in the 12 innings

Albert Pujols powers the Cardinals to a 10-8 victory over the Mets in 14 innings

Nike pulls hyperdunk ads, that some had seen as homophobic

NBC will stream Sunday Night Football games online