Boing Boing » basketball http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 21:10:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 March community-building-and-tribal-unity/Madness http://boingboing.net/2013/04/01/march-community-building-and-t.html http://boingboing.net/2013/04/01/march-community-building-and-t.html#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:02:15 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=222509 the psychology of March Madness, which is really the psychology of relationships and the deep emotional bonds underlying communities and tribes. When you cheer on the Wichita State Shockers in the Final Four, what you're really doing is introducing other people (and other groups) into your definition of self.]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/04/01/march-community-building-and-t.html/feed 3 Kim Jong Un wants Obama to Call Him Maybe, says new bestie Dennis Rodman after Vice mag North Korea junket http://boingboing.net/2013/03/03/kim-jong-un-wants-obama-to-cal.html http://boingboing.net/2013/03/03/kim-jong-un-wants-obama-to-cal.html#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:12:19 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=216361

From "North Korea Has a Friend in Dennis Rodman and VICE." Not 'shopped; you can tell by the pixels.

Argo 2.0? Former NBA star and noted weirdo Dennis Rodman told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos today that he returned from a trip to North Korea arranged by VICE with a message for President Obama from Kim Jong Un:

“He wants Obama to do one thing: Call him,” Rodman told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week.” “He said, ‘If you can, Dennis – I don’t want [to] do war. I don’t want to do war.’ He said that to me.”

Rodman trolled told Stephanopoulos he thinks the oppressive leader is "awesome," and that he loves Kim Jong Un.

“[Kim] loves basketball," reports The Worm, "And I said the same thing, I said, ‘Obama loves basketball.’ Let’s start there.”

"I don't wanna do war," the supreme leader of North Korea told Rodman, according to Rodman. A reboot of ping pong diplomacy wouldn't be a terrible thing.

Former deputy assistant secretary of state and ABC News consultant Col. Steve Ganyard, USMC (Ret.) told ABC’s Martha Raddatz the State Department’s decision not to debrief Rodman is “ridiculous.”

“There is nobody at the CIA who can tell you more personally about Kim Jong Un than Dennis Rodman," Ganyard said, "and that in itself is scary.”

You'll want to watch and/or read the entire ABC News interview.

More at "NORTH KOREA HAS A FRIEND IN DENNIS RODMAN AND VICE." One might have imagined they'd gone as far as they could go, with that John McAfee thing. But in this stunt (and that headline), Shane Smith of Vice surely proves himself an even greater troll than Dennis Rodman.

No comment yet from Dennis Rodman's dad, Philander Rodman, who boasts on his website,

- yes, I have fathered 29 children (not 47!) from 16 women, from 4 different Ethnic Groups, and from 3 different countries!!!!
Yes, his name is Philander.

(HT: Gavin Aronsen)

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/03/03/kim-jong-un-wants-obama-to-cal.html/feed 77 LeBron asks Khan Academy http://boingboing.net/2013/02/04/lebron-asks-khan-academy.html http://boingboing.net/2013/02/04/lebron-asks-khan-academy.html#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:11:15 +0000 Dean Putney http://boingboing.net/?p=210799

Khan Academy has a short series of videos featuring LeBron James asking science and statistics questions, with his "good friend Sal" answering them. They cover stuff like the odds of LeBron making three free throws versus one three pointer and what muscles you use when you shoot a basket. They're an engaging introduction to Khan Academy's videos.]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/04/lebron-asks-khan-academy.html/feed 0