While everyone awaits NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s decision—expected sometime Tuesday—regarding the purported racist ramblings of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson is calling for an L.A. boycott of Game 5 of the playoffs. In what would be L.A.’s first home game since the recordings were leaked to TMZ, Jackson…

A Michigan man who suffers from a rare disorder didn’t think anything of the selfie he posted to his Instagram account until NBA great Shaquille O’Neal made fun of it. The oversized jokester posted a photo to his Instagram account mocking Jahmel Binion’s photo. Binion has ectodermal dysplasia, a condition characterized by a reduced ability…

Beloved Chicago house music DJ and footwork pioneer Rashad Harden, better known as DJ Rashad, was found dead in his apartment Sunday after what police believe was a drug overdose, the Associated Press reports. He was 34. Chicago police spokeswoman Janel Sedevic told AP that a friend found Harden’s body in his home on the…

It had been rumored that the Los Angeles Clippers players wouldn’t take the court against the Golden State Warriors for Game 4 of their NBA playoff game after a leaked recording, of what has been reported as the Clippers owner spewing racist remarks, hit the news. Their coach, Doc Rivers, assured Clippers fans that he…

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans on Thursday to build a high school and name it after hometown hero President Barack Obama, the Associated Press reports. The Barack Obama College Preparatory High School, which is slated to open for the 2017-2018 school year, will be a selective-enrollment high school. Officials at Chicago Public Schools told…

A Fayetteville, N.C., teen was upset that her grandmother had taken her cellphone as punishment, so she spiked the Easter Sunday collard greens with insecticide, Breaking 911 reports.  Tyt’ana Lisa-Nicole Johnson, 17, is now charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder after her grandmother Gaylon Moody and a friend of Moody’s ate the collards. According…

NBA superstar Joakim Noah is suing French shoe company Le Coq Sportif for making crappy shoes that the Chicago Bulls center believes damaged his feet, TMZ Sports reports.  According to the sports gossip site, Noah filed a lawsuit against the shoe company in a Washington, D.C., court in November claiming that LCS reneged on his…

A former soldier who brutally murdered his 5-year-old daughter on military property in Hawaii may face the death penalty even though Hawaii abolished capital punishment decades ago, the New York Daily News reports. A federal jury on Thursday found Naeem Williams guilty of beating to death his daughter Talia in July 2005. Beginning Tuesday, jurors…

A 10-year-old girl took her chance to try to help her father out during the White House’s Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. During a question-and-answer session Thursday with children of Executive Office employees, Charlotte Bell told Michelle Obama that her dad has been unemployed for three years. Then she handed the first…

With unemployment rates on a too-slow decline, one can never be too content with one’s current job situation—not even a future NBA Hall of Famer who is the “CEO, President at Alot of different companies. Inc.” That’s right: Shaquille O’Neal has a LinkedIn profile, which New York’s Daily News has confirmed is the former NBA center’s…