Thursday, September 30, 2010

Bsi 2,025.67 +3.49 +.17%

Gotta say, after all the stories of broke ex-ball players, it's nice to read about someone who's doing well after retirement.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Bsi 2,070.71 -3 -.14%

Have we seen the last of A.I.? Whatever the case, it hasn't been looking good of late for the NBA icon.

Say it ain't so.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Bsi 2,082.64 +7.6 +.36%

Allen Iverson back to the 76ers? Just the idea of it sounds too storybook to be real.

BUY

Andre Braugher

Sure, you don't meet a lot of black 40-something men named Owen, but if there's an actor who can pull it off, it's Braugher, who we look forward to seeing in the new TNT drama "Men of a Certain Age".

SELL

Tiger Woods

Hmmm. Between knee surgery and the latest domestic incident Woods breaking Jack Nicklaus' record doesn't seem as inevitable.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Bsi 2,140.41 -5.7 -.27%

With Larry Johnson getting cut and Allen Iverson's skipping town in Memphis, it's not a great day for once dominant athletes.

BUY

BLK JKS

SELL

Sittin on the Toilet

Friday, September 25, 2009

Bsi 2,136.36 +8.46 +.4%

Hmmm... maybe Kanye was right about "Single Ladies", cause that song is still EVERYWHERE!

It really is the song of the year people.

WINNERS

Edwidge Danticat (EDWD) 2.39 +2.39 NA

The Haitian author reaches genius status with the MacArthur Foundation.

LOSERS

Cornrows  (CNRW) 1.21 -.67 -35.64%

First Iverson now white people can't even wear them.  It's been a tough year.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Bsi 2,022.24 +9.33 +.46%

Guess what new media -- arresting Professor Gates WAS stupid.  He didn't say racially motivated.  He said stupid.  Which it really, really was.

As they'd say on Family Feud, "Good answer.  Good answer."

WINNERS

Valerie Jarrett (VJRT)  5.31 +3.09 +160.81%

The Obama insider gets the New York Times Magazine treatment.

LOSERS

Allen Iverson (ANSWR3) 7.45 -2.91 -28.09%

Still a free agent, the last few seasons has seen this former face of The Association fall from the NBA firmament back to earth.  Now it seems he can only makes the news as a part of a strip club rumor.  How the mighty have fallen.

No one loves A.I. like we do.  Still, it's looking more and more like these photos came from the "good ole days".

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Bsi 2,108.59 +6.29 +.3%

While the market ends up for the day.  Analysts here are conflicted, as an era ends.

Icon or Anti-hero... for my money Iverson's on the Mt. Rushmore of culturally significant ballers alongside Russell, Bird, Johnson and Jordan.

Don't get us wrong, we like the look... but that Iverson, the most culturally significant player of the post-Jordan ear, has had braids for a dozen years just proves we're getting old.

BUY

Living Colour

Twenty years later... worth re-visiting.

SELL

Senator Roland Burris

How does the saying go?  "If you lie with dogs, you're going to get fleas."

Something tells me Burris is itching right about now.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Bsi 1,750.56 +8.97 +.51%

A slight tick upward as we get closer and closer to turning the page on another year and an era.

BUY

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead's first novel still reads as fresh as it did when it first came out a decade ago.

SELL

Allen Iverson

The trade to Detroit is highlighting the fact that the most culturally significant baller since Michael Jordan may be past the point of being a difference maker.

More questions than Answers now... sadly.