And Al Davis said “Ice Cube’s a pimp”
Ice Cube, probably the only person to put “Al Davis” and “gat” in the same verse of a rap song, has apparently put down his guns in his feud with the Silver and Black. Cube was patrolling the sidelines at Raiders practice Tuesday, according to the Chronicle, in preparation to shoot a documentary about the team’s influence on the world of hip-hop.
JaMarcus Russell had the most time with Cube, which is just what the Raiders need: A bad influence for their influence-able star player. Of course, Cube has been going the Eddie Murphy route in crapfests Are We There Yet, First Sunday and The Longshots, so maybe he’s not so bad after all. And his Raiders documentary landed with that most incendiary of networks, ESPN, so you can expect a lot of swearing, probably some people’s legs being shot off, and gallons of malt liquor being consumed. Or, really, not.
The Chron reminds us Cube rapped about Davis after he brought the Raiders back to Oakland, saying “Stop givin’ juice to the Raiders, cause Al Davis never paid us.” But he also wrote a song called “Raider Nation” that will debut with the movie. Potential lyric: “Russell didn’t even throw it to Hey-Bey. I have to say it was a good day.”
…Other linkage, not including midget strippers and fantasy football…
The Giants, needing a bat? Naaah. The Panda, in a walking cast? Whaaat? Merc
Try to imagine Oakland without the A’s. Now follow that to its next logical conclusion: “Oklnd” t-shirts. Oklnd.com
49ers, Santa Clara and Stanford fans take heart: A new study says athletes who wear red win more often. As a side note, look for our Stanford football preview later today. And it will WIN. Sporting News
GMail went down for a while Tuesday, and who was most excited when it went back up? The guy who buys domain names for fun, of course. madsen_mark
The 49ers dropped Damon Huard in favor of Nate Davis on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Nate Clements would like to get in an ab-off with Larry Fitzgerald.
Since it was a Raider kinda day, we’ll finish with a few more classic Raider links: The Nation gets the Deadspin treatment, Thomas Howard tweets about his pedicure, and a former Raiderette writes a kid’s book about cheerleading. And yes, it is actually called “Patty Pom-Poms.”
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By Peter on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 6:00 am.
Tags: Oakland A's, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants, Santa Clara Broncos, Stanford Cardinal
September 11th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
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