newsday.com - 8/24/2007
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By Justin Rocket Silverman, amNewYork Staff Writer | jsilverman@am-ny.com August 22, 2007 Knicks star Stephon Marbury wasn't trying to be controversial when he donated 3,000 pairs of his branded Starbury One shoes to city high school basketball players last year. Yet by giving the shoes only to boys' varsity teams, the Coney Island native drew attention to what some say is a glaring inequality ...
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freedarko.com —
... , gave a batshit crazy interview on NBC (see below), and even offended people with his low-budget sneaker charitable work . This is not even to take into account the fact that dude started his own talk show and impersonates Stephen A. Smith in the promos for it. This is not to MENTION that the guy was writing crazy blog posts for the NY Post, calling out commentors, writing shit like: I guess we could ask people like Tony who called me a lowlife…and "islesfan'' who said I was drugged up. Let me ask YOU dudes a question. How would your mother feel if someone put you on blast in all the media and said you were on drugs in front of all your co-workers, your friends and family? What is that to say about someone? I’m on drugs? OK. You have to look yourself in the mirror and say I spoke about this man and I don’t even know him, just what I heard someone else say. That's crazy. Remember, the only truth to a ...
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SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... : NEW YORK NEWSDAY knows no good deed goes unpunished, as Stephon Marbury's donation of 3,000 basketball shoes might be a violation of Title IX . NEWS GROPER has the skinny on why A-Rod may be ...
Gotbaum To Starbury : Girls Can Wear Cheap Kicks, Too
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... , Steph’s gift horse is being stared directly in the mouth, as Newsday’s Justin Rocket Silverman explains. ...
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ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... Stephon Marbury: You have 3,000 more pairs of shoes you can spare? And, ...
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