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How to Dress Like a Raver: Photos and Fashion Tips From Ultra Music Festival

The first weekend of Miami's Ultra Music Festival has come and gone. These bass junkies in tutus, dead starfish, Pokémon body suits and other various Halloween costumes offered words of fashion advice and reflection. Click on to uncover how to dress like a raver at Ultra. Also, be sure to check our ... More >>

The Ten Most Egregious Tax Loopholes in the U.S.

Pro Sports Team Owners, New Stadiums and You

Writer Jeremy Repanich has an interesting piece about his time working for the Seattle Sonics over at Deadspin this afternoon. Included in his account of the team's final years in the Emerald City is an insider's view of then-owner Howard Schultz's unsuccessful quest to force the public to build a n ... More >>

Stan Kroenke Advances to Next Round of Dodgers Bidding

​Billionaire sports fan Stan Kroenke has been approved by the Los Angeles Dodgers (and its investment bank) to meet with Major League Baseball concerning his offer to buy the team. Kroenke is not the only big-bucks guy to get that approval. According to the anonymous sources "very close to the sal ... More >>

Blake Griffin Posterizes Kendrick Perkins: The Five Best Accompanying Songs

Blake Griffin can jump very high and has very long arms. Last night, his Los Angeles Clippers played the Oklahoma City Thunber, and he put those two skills to work in turning six foot ten inch, 260 pound Kendrick Perkins' into a wisp of smoke. We are lucky to have someone like Griffin in our current ... More >>

RIP "Easy Ed" Macauley, Star of Boston Celtics, St. Louis Hawks and SLU Billikens

image viaEd Macauley with his SLU coach, Ed Hickey.​"Easy Ed" Macauley, one of the early stars of the NBA and, incidentally, the Saint Louis University Billikens, died yesterday here in St. Louis. He was 83 years old and six feet eight inches tall. Macauley grew up in St. Louis, attended SLU ... More >>

A New Entry in The History of Bad Officiating

Oh, sure. I could have gone with a picture of Russel Crowe or Kirk Douglas here, but I like to think you all expect a little more thought put into the joke pictures we use here at the RFT. ​A funny thing came on the newsfeed on my sidebar the other night. I was just typing away, trying to get some ... More >>

John Salley Recalls a Tarnished Evening in an East St. Louis Strip Club

​Basketball legend John Salley has been sharing some pretty wild stories of his NBA days with listeners of his podcast Spider and the Henchman. Last week the story involved a visit to an East St. Louis strip club with the stand-up comedians (and brothers) Joe and Guy Torry. The club, says Sally, w ... More >>

In Honor of Ron Artest's Appearance Tonight in St. Louis...

...allow us to present what was, by far, the highlight of the 2010 NBA Finals... And, if you're going to Lure tonight to see Ron Ron pimp his new song "Champions," we strongly advise against giving him another vodka shower. He tends to react poorly when fans coat him in liquids.

Will Albert "The Great" Follow "King" James' Footsteps?

He didn't even leave a note. ​So after witnessing quite possibly the worst idea I've seen in literally years, the ESPN/LeBron James joint project entitled "The Decision", the question, of course, will predictably be asked around these parts, "Could Albert Pujols be next for this sort of thing?"&nb ... More >>

Kroenke to Son: You'll Have Nuggets and Like It!

Josh Kroenke played hoops for Mizzou from '99 to '03.​Call it a late birthday gift. Exactly one month after turning 29, Josh Kroenke was tapped yesterday as heir apparent to take over the Denver NBA franchise owned by his father, Stan Kroenke. The move comes as the elder Kroenke attempts to divest ... More >>

Breaking Down the Kroenke Kaper

​As reported earlier by my colleague Chad Garrison, Stan Kroenke is attempting to convince the NFL to allow his wife, Ann Walton Kroenke, to purchase the St. Louis Rams outright, rather than doing it himself. Such a move would circumvent the NFL's cross-ownership rules which would seem to prevent ... More >>

Baseball Announcer Catch-Phrases are Hopelessly Out of Date

Via InsideSTLImagine if you will, Mike Shannon as the color man for the NBA. Baseball announcers are delightfully, hopelessly behind the times when it comes to coining catch-phrases to describe the on-field action. So much so, that when young bucks and young Bucks try to roll out a new one-liner, Am ... More >>

Basketball Legend Bob Pettit Next Inductee to St. Louis Walk of Fame

hollywoodcollectibles.comBob Pettit, the St. Louis Hawks great who brought this city its only NBA championship, will officially be inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame this August. Pettit, who resides in his home state of Louisiana, was named to the walk last year but could not make the inductio ... More >>

Anthony Bonner Bids Adieu to Vashon

Jennifer SilverbergBonner in the gym last year.Vashon High School boys' basketball coach Anthony Bonner told me today that he's hung up his high-school whistle in order to pursue a new career opportunity with the New York Knicks.Bonner quit substitute teaching at Vashon in December and spent his las ... More >>

Did Mizzou Hoopster 'Misremember' His Relationship to NBA Superstar?

This courtesy of Deadspin. Apparently New Orleans Hornets Chris Paul, aka "CP3," has missed a lot of family reunions or freshman Missouri Tiger guard Miguel Paul made up a heck'uva story. (Roger Clemens might call it a "misremember.") In November, Miguel Paul told a reporter with the Colu ... More >>

Darius Miles: One Second Away From Costing Portland $18 Million

Darius Miles' bizarre labor dispute with the Portland Trailblazers is coming to a head. Last night he scored 13 points in 13 garbage time minutes as his new team, the Memphis Grizzlies, lost to the powerful Cleveland Cavaliers. As previously noted, if Miles steps on the court for one more second thi ... More >>

Cheesesteak Quest: Can Ian find a decent Philly cheesesteak in St. Louis? Yes, he can!

A Banner Night

Money Ball

Bob Costas recalls the “genius deal” that keeps alive the Spirits of St. Louis of the old American Basketball Association.

Gut Buckets

Posterizing EA

NBA 2K7 towers over the competition.

Full Court Pressure

College Hoops 2K6 will bring out your inner Bobby Knight.

New St. Louis

Time for this town to cash in on Hurricane Katrina

Hot to Trot

The Globetrotters bring their incredible hoops skills to the Savvis

I Believe LeBron Can Fly

See him at Savvis

Best Sports Bar

Nick's Pub

Tallboys

The answer to Larry Bird's prayers for a white basketball savior might reside just off Highway 67 in Poplar Bluff

Shooting Stars

Tommie Liddell plays tortoise to Darius Miles’ hare in the annals of East Side High basketball lore

If You Could Trade Places With Anyone for a Day, Who Would You Choose?

Week of February 4, 2004

Harlem Renaissance

Globetrotters come to play

Shootout Freak-Out

Ho ho hoops at Savvis

Gentlemen, Start Your Zambonis

Game on (finally)

Best Sports Bar

DB's Sports Bar

SheBron's Truth

Sheila Bronson is twelve years old -- and may be the first player to jump from middle school into the WNBA

Best Place to Watch Another Major Sporting Event While the Cardinals Are on TV

The sofa in your living room

B-Ball, Anyone?

St. Louis gets another pro-sports franchise. Let's not screw it up, OK?

Muddy Water Runs Past Them

Two cities linked by politics, sports, problems -- but not style

Scratch My Itch

Week of November 7, 2001

He Got Game

Bill Laurie has a basketball jones that won't go away. Who cares whether it makes economic sense?

Hoopy Days

NBA-starved St. Louisans get a tantalizing taste of their obsession at an exhibition match

Best Minor-League Team

St. Louis Swarm

Apples in Stereo, the Golden Spiderz and the Fantasy Four

Saturday, May 19; Rocket Bar

Jams, Slams, and Christmas Hams

The Shop 'N Save/KMOX Shootout promises a peek at the future of pro basketball

A League of Their Own

The WNBA pays St. Louis a brief, tantalizing visit

Swarm Fuzzies

Spreading the buzz on St. Louis' pro-basketball franchise

FLOTSAM & JETSAM

Our-way-or-no-highway robbery in the NBA; you too can help underwrite World Wide Magazine; the Post's Greg Freeman loses a source of inspiration

THE NBA -- WANNA GO?

The large crowd at last week's exhibition game stuffs the ball in the face of naysayers who claim St. Louis can't support a pro-basketball team

THE NBA HAS THE ANSWER

How long before Bill and Nancy Laurie move their newly purchased Grizzlies from Vancouver to Our Town?

Suffering in the Luxury Suites