He knew, or at least, very strongly suspected. He never said anything. So, the question… does he get slammed for not speaking up then, or does he get credit for admitting it now?

I’m going with the latter option. It’s easy to say now that he should’ve spoken up. We’d all like to think that we would’ve. But when every single one of your peers is doing the same thing, and the steroid user is helping put money in your pocket… I don’t know. I think it would’ve taken a tremendous amount of courage to speak up then, risk the good name of your team and your sport, and call a good friend a cheater. I don’t think a lot of people would’ve had the courage to do that. In fact, no one did.

So credit Kevin Towers for speaking up now, admitting he did the wrong thing, and saying that he feels terrible about it. “I still don’t know for sure, but Cammy came out and said that he used steroids, and I suspected. Selfishly, the guy was putting up numbers, and I didn’t do anything about it. That’s just the truth.”

Some people in baseball are still telling themselves that they had no idea anyone could’ve ever been on steroids. I’m glad someone isn’t… Hopefully, it becomes a trend.

Dwight Smith is sitting in his car, waiting for his Big Mac. A woman in the car in front of him recognizes him. A couple of fans get out of the car to go see if they could talk to Smith. Smith pulls out a pellet gun, and one of his friends get out of the car and punched one of the guys.

I guess Dwight Smith really didn’t feel like signing any autographs… Hey, maybe he’s Smith auditoning to be in 50 Cent’s posse. He was arrested in 2003 for something similar, pulling a gun on a motorist. I can kinda understand… I was approached in a McDonalds drive-thru line once at about 4 a.m., but I just gave the guy a dollar, and he wished Jah’s mercy upon me. I really didn’t feel the need for a gat.

And why a pellet gun? What, did he just get home from skeet shooting at the range? Does he think he’s going to get in less trouble if he just pulls a pellet gun on someone? Idiot. Pulling a gun on someone is pulling a gun on someone… doesn’t matter if it’s a pellet gun or a Glock. I mean, you don’t get in less trouble for trying to stab someone with a really dull knife, do you?

I always wanted to say “beefin’.” This is a great story.

50 Cent and The Game were boys. The Game was a member of G-Unit. Then 50 Cent started having some beef with Nas, Jadakiss, and Fat Joe. The Game was asked about it, and he said, “I ain’t gonna turn on my friends and Nas is one of my friends, and Jada’s really a homie … 50′s beef is 50′s beef and I really don’t know where all this stems from.”

Naturally, he had to be kicked out of G-Unit. 50 Cent said as much during a radio interview on Monday night.

Investigators believe that some of The Game’s boys heard 50′s comments, and they showed up at the radio station. Game’s boys got into it with 50′s boys, and one of The Game’s boys took a bullet.

This is going to make it very difficult for me to listen to The Game’s “How We Do” without getting emotional. I’ll reflect on a beautiful friendship lost. It’s like when Tommy Gunn turned against Rocky in Rocky V.

Here’s what comes to mind when I read a story like this: High school girls. I’m fighting with this bitch, and if you can’t be on my side, you can’t be in my clique anymore, bitch. Only, these high school girls have guns and reps to protect. I mean, come on fellas… this has to stop at some point, right?

Of course, the other possibility for all of this is free ink. 50′s got an album coming out Thursday, and instead of going on 106 and Park to promote it, it might just be a little easier to shoot someone and get his name in the paper. Just a theory.

Remember the Nashville Rhythm, that ABA basketball team coached by Ashley McElhiney, and owned by that unbalanced Nashville hooker?

Well, they qualified for the playoffs. They finished 21-10. They should be hosting a playoff game at home. But they won’t be.

Why? The owner doesn’t think they can win. What the hell?

Hey, he might be right. The team lost their top three players, all signing contracts to play overseas. So co-owner Tony Bucher says to hell with it, to hell with the rest of the guys who busted their asses all year, to hell with the female coach, who with no prior experience coaching, got a bunch of NBA wannabe fellas to buy into what she was saying. They can’t win, so screw ‘em. Don’t let them play.

What is that?

I nominate the Nashville Rhythm for the most poorly-owned franchise in the history of the sports. It’s as if Isiah Thomas and Donald Sterling had a love child, that love child had a love child with the person who was responsible for Crystal Pepsi, and that child now owns the Nashville Rhythm. Unbelievable.