Video: Interview with NBA Player Stephen Jackson on Dan Le Batard's Highly Questionable

There are guys that bark about who they are or where they come from, and then there's Stephen Jackson, who's bite is much worse than his bark.

The NBA veteran stopped by Dan Le Batard's Highly Questionable last week and answered a wide range of questions, from his take on the 'Malice at the Palace' to what is was like growing up in Port Arthur, TX as a youth. I loved Jackson's honestly when discussing how it felt to punch a fan in the face. Who else would have had the nerve to say that?

Captain Jack has long been one of my favorite players in the National Basketball Association, not only because of his skill set on the court, but because he's never been afraid to speak his mind, and as you heard him say in this piece, to stand up for his friends regardless of the circumstances and possible negative outcomes for doing so.

 Kudos to Bomani Jones and Dan Le Batard for having S-Jax on the show and not asking soft questions.

Candy Of The Day

The return of Candy Of The Day should be marked with more bells and whistles, but that's not happening today.

Enjoy. 

Sports with Mr. Factoid on Halestormsports Radio - Episode #93

Sports with Mr. Factoid returned to the airwaves for another week here on Halestormsports Radio to discuss all the latest happenings in the sports world. Hosted by yours truly, E. Allen (AKA @mrfactoid).

Here's a glimpse of the agenda.

Hometown Notes on Devon Alexander "The Great, the number one team in baseball, the ST. Louis Cardinals, and Jeff Fisher's St. Louis Rams.   

Previous Story Updates on Rutgers University and Biogenesis/MLB scandal.

A new Dumb Athlete of The Week

Top Headlines look at Tim Tebow to the Patriots, Jason Kidd the head coach, Grant Hill's retirement, the NBA coaching carousel, and a recap of Chad Dawson vs Adonis Stevenson's light heavyweight title clash.

Making The Rounds with Maurice Clarrett, Goodell backing the Redskins, the upcoming Mikey Garcia vs Juan Manuel Lopez featherweight title fight, and Evans vs Henderson at UFC 161.

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Bets on next NFL winner

There is still some time to go before the start of the new NFL season, but the betting on it started more or less as soon as the last Super Bowl finished. At the moment the New England Patriots are rated the hot favourites to win both the AFC and the Super Bowl in the pre-season betting – with odds of just 3/1 for the former at many of the sports betting sites, and 7/1 for the latter. The shortness of these odds reflects the quality that the Patriots have throughout their team but, although they are highly rated, they certainly aren’t the only team in serious contention.

Indeed one of the other sides expected to push all the way in the coming NFL season is the Denver Broncos – who always seem to be rated amongst the favourites pre-season, but often fail to deliver on that when the action gets underway. While this should be borne in mind by anyone seduced by odds of 7/1 on them, the fact is they are another side loaded with real talent throughout – including a fit, motivated Peyton Manning – which could be a decisive factor when it comes to their challenge this season.

The current Super Bowl holders, the Baltimore Ravens, are rated surprisingly low down the rankings to retain it – with odds of 16/1 at most bookmakers. This puts them well behind the team they defeated in that match – the San Francisco 49ers – which seems curious given how superior the Ravens looked for much of that game. The biggest problem area for the 49ers in the final was in the red-zone offence area, and this is where they will have to find the necessary players to improve them in the draft if they are to live up to these odds and go one better in the upcoming NFL season.

With there being no guarantees on who will win the Super Bowl this season it may be better to hang on and look at preseason form before betting on the winners. The Internet offers comprehensive statistics of each preseason game as well as up to date odds via online bookmakers. As well as offering the chance for betting on the NFL during the off season, the online gambling industry also offer something else for fans of the NFL to do whilst waiting for the new season to get underway. By developing sports themed slot games online casinos offer fans of the NFL can enjoy some sporting fun whilst making the tough call as to who will be Super Bowl champions this year.

NFL themed slots such as $5 Million Touchdown at www.androidcasino.com.au are amongst the most popular with NFL fans. There is plenty of excitement on offer with the combination of its stadium background music, cheering sound effects and its graphic display making for an intense atmosphere. It’s a great way to get fans ready for the arrival of new season.

Lebron James Continues To Take Efficiency To A New Level

In the NBA, the greats are always going to be compared to each other. While it can be simply unfair when you take a current player and compare them to 20 years ago, that does not stop the debates from happening. However, going off the numbers, Lebron James is showing the world a new level of smart, efficient basketball.

In the first game of the NBA Playoffs, James put on a spectacular display against the Bucks. His 27 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists might appear to be another day at the office, but shooting 9/11 from the field is absurd. However, for James and the Heat, it is all about efficiency and staying within the team game. This thought process makes them the clear cut favorites to win the NBA Finals once again.

Going back to the all-time greats, there have been better pure scorers, better passers and better rebounders than Lebron James. However, at this point in his career, no one has been able to not only do what he is doing, but do it with efficiency, he is very hard to leave out of any daily daily fantasy sports lineup. It comes down to being smart with the ball, and not forcing up shots outside of his range.

The Heat continue to build a solid cast around James to help increase his odds of success as well. There are shooters galore who can spot up from the corners when he drives. He has an excellent big man shooter in Chris Bosh. Then, of course, he has sidekick Dwyane Wade to handle the ball and take pressure off him at times. All of this adds up to a lot of trouble for other teams, as they have to deal with one of the best team players ever dissect an offense.

There is still plenty of work to do in 2013, but the Heat are so far off to a great start against the Milwaukee Bucks. It appears that James is also locked in and ready to go for his most efficient end to the season ever.

NBA Video: JaVale McGee Has Freakish Hops

The last five to ten days have been wild when it comes to the NBA and cats getting dunked on. Last night the hot Denver Nuggets traveled to the windy city of Chicago for a matchup with the Bulls.

In the end, the Nuggets walked away with their 12th straight win, but the highlight of the night came from the physically gifted, but often spacey JaVale McGee.




Joakim Noah never stood much of a chance on the play, but you've got to give him a bit of credit for facing the firing squad like a man. I'm sure he cried when he got home.

NBA Video: LeBron James Smashes Reverse Jam on Rookie John Henson

John Henson is a rookie and on Friday night NBA royalty LeBron James gave him a baptism of sorts as the Heat rolled to their 21st straight victory.

Move rook, get out the way!

Is Matt Barkley Making The Right Decision To Skip Throwing At The NFL Combine?

In recent years, top quarterbacks in college coming out for the draft have opted to skip the NFL Combine. Reasons vary from player to player, but most recently, Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were just fine after not reporting. With Matt Barkley though, it seems as though too many questions remain surrounding him to just skip the combine.

 Among top quarterback prospects this season, only Barkley will not be throwing in Indianapolis. Geno Smith, Mike Glennon, Tyler Wilson, Ryan Nassib and others are all looking at this as an opportunity to secure a spot atop most mock drafts. Ironically, Barkley might still have the most to gain from his time in Indianapolis.

 Barkley is scheduled to go through several meetings with teams as they attempt to pick his brain and see just how much he knows about the game. The former USC quarterback is known as a cerebral quarterback who has decent, but not great, tools.

 They will also be asking him questions about his health, which is understandable since he was unable to play in the Notre Dame at the end of the season, or USC’s bowl game. The Trojans looked lost on offense in both of those games, so it showed just how much of an impact he made on the game for a team that was ranked #1 in the preseason.

Overall, Barkley if healthy should be throwing at the combine. It does not prove all that much, but it would show that he's 100% healthy and ready to possibly step up for a team right away. Certainly fantasy football would also like the chance to run their eye over him. Instead, he will throw at USC's pro day to his own receivers, which is the right move if h is still more injured than he is letting on. Either way, expect Barkley to more than likely creep into the first round, but not throwing at the combine after a shaky season in 2012 is a somewhat risky move.

Radio: Sports with Mr. Factoid - An Interview w/ Devon Alexander The Great

World champion Devon Alexander "The Great", who was scheduled to defend his IBF welterweight title against Kell Brook this weekend, is on the mend from an arm injury and anxious to get back to work very soon.

Alexander granted an interview Thursday night, live on Sports with Mr. Factoid to discuss his past, present, and future in boxing. The St. Louis native shared thoughts about PED's in his sport, his love of sweets, Paulie Malignaggi, Tim Bradley, and more. Alexander was also kind enough to talk about the wonderful work he's doing right now in the community for inner city kids.

While I'll of course urge you to listen to the entire show, the interview with Alexander starts at 12:29 and runs till 48:29.  You can follow Devon on Twitter @DAlexanderReal

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Video: Harbowl - by DJ Steve Porter

The brother versus brother storyline behind Super Bowl XLVII has gotten more run than Cain and Abel in the old testament this week, and rightfully so, but every good story gets old after awhile, and this one has run its course with me. If you feel like I do, then you can't wait for kickoff Sunday evening just so the fans, players, coaches, and media can move on.

Now while it sounds like I'm complaining, which I am in all honesty, it doesn't mean that I'm not down with another high quality mash-up from DJ Steve Porter. Check out this new remix entitled "Harbowl" and let me know what you think in the comments below!




Porter strikes gold again with this one! Hopefully the game will be as good if not better than this sweet little number.

MMA Video: Ring Girls Demonstrate Proper Techniques

While we all pretend to watch MMA for the action inside the octagon, many fans are more captivated by the hot ring girls outside the cage, and as a red blooded American male, I'm honestly in the same boat.

While the Arianny Celeste's and Brittany Palmer's of the world garner major attention in the UFC, some former Ultimate Fighting Championship ring card girls are keeping busy with sexy instructional videos.

Long time fans of MMA in the UFC will surely recognize Edith Labelle in this next video.  She is widely considered to be one of the hottest ring girls in the history of hot ring girls, and while she's not working for Dana White these days, she still has time to demonstrate some important Kimura techniques for your viewing pleasure.

Now how many of you fellas would tap that, I mean tap out via her arm bar? I know I would quick, fast, and in a hurry.

Hat tip to Guyism.

Candy Of The Day - Jessica Marie

There's hot, and then there's Jessica Marie.  This vixen has been featured in Playboy on multiple occasions, and other horn dog male magazines for obvious reasons.

Check her out on Twitter at @onejessicamarie

Video: Lance Armstong's Oprah Interview with a Creepy Twist

If you follow sports then it's highly likely you too saw the Lance Armstrong interview/confession with Oprah Winfrey earlier this month. If you haven't, it's all over the world wide web, so take a couple hours and get caught up. I'm not saying it's must see video, but it will be good for a laugh at Armstrong's expense.

What you're about to witness here is the work of some clever lad who took Radiohead's "Creep" and mashed it up real nice with that pathetic interview.



The wheels have fallen off for this poor soul. As I've grown accustomed to saying, You dope, you lie, you lose!

Video: DJ Steve Porter Presents "Orange Peanut"

DJ Steve Porter has become well known in the sports world the last few years for taking awesome sounds bites and clips and turning them into truly magnificent mash-up videos.

Many fans like myself find humor in reading the lips of athletes just to catch a couple of expletives fly out uncontrollably. Whether it's in the NBA, MLB, or NFL these soundbites leave us cracking up and running to cover the ears of small kids in the room.

DJ SP this go round decided to poke fun at the NFL and the leagues recent video entitled "THE NFL : A Bad Lip Reading" .

Here is "Orange Peanut" A Bad Lip Reading Remix by DJ Steve Porter for your enjoyment.

Factoid's NFL Picks: Week 15 - 2012/2013

I was pretty unhappy last week with the 10-6 mark posted for picks, but just like the men putting on pads, you've gotta put the past in the rear view mirror and move forward. The overall record for this season now stands at 137-71 and hopefully my picks have elevated your status as a NFL pick'em know-it-all.

Here is how I see things shaping up for Week 15.


Thursday Night

Cincinnati @ Philadelphia - Bengals


Sunday Early Games

NYG @ Atlanta - Giants
Green Bay @ Chicago - Packers
Washington @ Cleveland - Browns
Minnesota @ St. Louis - Rams
Jacksonville @ Miami - Dolphins
Tampa Bay @ New Orleans - Saints
Denver @ Baltimore - Broncos
Indianapolis @ Houston - Texans

Sunday Late Afternoon

Seattle @ Buffalo - Seahawks
Detroit @ Arizona - Lions
Carolina @ San Diego - Chargers
Pittsburgh @ Dallas - Steelers
Kansas City @ Oakland - Raiders


Sunday Night

San Francisco @ New England - Patriots


Monday Night 

NYJ @ Tennessee - Jets


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Monda