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While TPing usually occurs under the cloak of darkness, John Brown University basketball fans let the rolls fly under the bright lights of the campus basketball arena.

The College Basketball season gets underway this week and there are many traditions like Rock Chalk Jayhawk at the University of Kansas or the Cameron Crazies at Duke, but John Brown University in Arkansas  has a tradition of their very own and it takes place after the first basket of the season of the first home game.

Since the National Basketball Association is currently in a strike, their superstars are having to find other ways to stay in game shape if the strike is ever over and the  season ever does start.

While this feline is clearly too small for the NBA, his all-out defensive intensity would match any player in the league.

“West Philadelphia-born and raised” actor Will Smith and his wife, actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, are among a collective group announced as new owners of the Philadelphia 76ers at an introductory press conference in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Wagner college basketball player Josh Thompson wanted to do something memorable in the dunk contest held during his school’s Midnight Madness event last Friday night. So the six-foot-five forward lined his mom up in front of the basket, with her back facing him, and then jumped over her on his way to completing a slam dunk.

With the lockout continuing, NBA players have been forced to look elsewhere to fulfill their basketball jones. In the case of Dwight Howard, this journey took him to Japan, where the Orlando Magic center recently dunked on an 11-foot hoop which had been attached to the neck of a 12-foot stuffed giraffe, during an exhibition at a Tokyo mall. Yes, it all sounds a bit strange, but the crowd gets real

Sure, his sky hook made him a legend, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is now showing off his dunking skills in the name of music. The basketball icon dunks a pumpkin in a new video promoting the Smashing Pumpkins’ upcoming CD, ‘Oceania.’

Ron Artest really wants the world to know that he is now a lover, not a fighter. The always interesting and formerly pugnacious Lakers forward has filed papers to change his name to “Metta World Peace,” citing “personal reasons.” The Lakers have ...

Atlanta-based rocker Aaron Keyes ended an epic game of H-O-R-S-E when he dunked on an arcade basketball game. Lucky for us, YouTube comedy duo Tripp and Tyler caught it all on film. Take a good look at that form. Look at that extension, that poise. This is the last man you’d want to come up against if you were down to your final letter (well, one of the last).

Trick shot videos are popping up all over the internet these days and Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash makes a pretty unbelievable one that combines both his basketball and soccer skills (he was a footie star as a youth, FYI) in this ad for Chinese athletic apparel company Lu You. This definitely isn’t a guy you’d want to play in H-O-R-S-E. Now the question is, did he make it in one take?

As millions learned Friday, there’s a reason John Wall plays basketball and not baseball. The Washington Wizards point guard had the honor of throwing out the first pitch at Friday’s game between the Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles. Unfortunately, his skills on the field weren’t nearly as good as they are on the court, resulting in one of the more awkward first-pitch moments in rece