There are rumors going around that the Memphis Grizzlies are going to release Allen Iverson form his contract and make him a free agent.  Iverson signed during the off season with the knowledge he was going to come off the bench.  Apparently that has not sat well with Iverson as the Grizzlies have started poorly.  Whatever you can say of AI, he is a competitor and if he is going to go down, he wants to do that on the floor.  Which makes all the more interesting that if he does get his release, why in the world would he consider coming to the one-win New York Knicks?  

It is very possible that some of www.gameovernyc.com readers are not familiar with one of the men that is in the argument of greatest NCAA and NBA center of all time.  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has just disclosed that he is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia.  For those of us that have followed the career of Kareem, it could be stated that the fact that he has made this public omission is rarer than the disease he has.  He has been a quiet, introspective man that values his privacy.  For him to speak out speaks volumes of the man, just as his Hall of Fame credentials has spoken for his basketball talent.  We wish him the best of luck in his fight and sincerely hope that his speaking out brings attention to the fight on leukemia.

We've done it.  It wasn't enough that we had to revolutionize the basketball trophy, giving you the Game Over classic basketball trophy.  Now we're about to tackle the your idea of what a football trophy is.

Check out the newest member of the Game Over trophy line-up, the GO02F - the Game Over Football Trophy.  Like our GO02 basketball trophy, this one has that same hard hitting Game Over man, now carrying his helmet with a football in it while stepping on the helmet of an opponent.

Once you see this bad boy, you'll never play a down struggling for one of those weak looking trophies.  And like all Game Over trophies, you'll be proud to put this solid resin statue on your desk, shelf, or mantleplace.

So click on the STORE Link above and go to Trophies or click on this link to check it out.  Hurry, we can't guarantee once the stampede begins that we will have one left for you.

It's finally here.  The college basketball season.  Who's going to take the crown?  Who knows, who cares!  We are now engrossed in the greatest sporting event to span three climate seasons (Fall, Winter, and Spring) running through the Holidays, and giving us joy in all the magificent plays and efforts of young men and women until the final buzzer sounds.

What makes college basketball special, unlike the pro games, is that these athletes are still faliable.  Yeah, an NBAer and WNBAer can miss a shot or dribble off their foot, but they are also going home with a paycheck.  For the college athlete, it's going back to the dorm either a hero to celibrate with pizza and hallmates, or hiding in the library (yeah, they have them on the campus too) after missing a 20 footer with time running down.

We'll be watching, as most of you will too, if for no other reason than to get one more right on your bracket tourney sheet this year.

By now you should have heard of the $200 million dollar deal for the richest Russian, Mikhail Prokhorov, to buy a majority share of the New Jersey Nets.  Two issues come to mind immediately: 

1. Does America have to sell all its assets to foreign concerns?  Isn't enough that most of our landmarks are owned by entities overseas?  Isn't it enough that we have forgotten how to actually make anything other than instant celebrities from trailer-park trash?  That we purchase a vast majority of our consumer goods from manufacturers from overseas?  Do our sports teams now also have to be owned by others from outside the United States?  We can see the proposal at the next NBA Board of Governors meeting:  The New Jersey Nets wish to have their games start at noon so that hard-working Moscovite, coming home from a hard day of work, can sit down in front of his television to watch his favorite team at a reasonable hour.  Brooklyn, you've been here before - they were called the Dodgers when an owner went selfish.

Which brings us to number 2.  We've had the fortune to travel this great land (ow what we still own) and visit various sporting venues.  What is great is that each tries to make it a local experience and something that makes it a reflection of its owner.  Go to Yankee Stadium, pay inflated prices to an inflated-egomaniac owner, enough said.  Go to Petco Park (home of the San Diego Padres) and you can get fish tacos.  Go to the great northwest and see the Seattle Mariners play and you can eat your sushi.  You get the idea.  When Prokhorov moves the Nets to Brooklyn, does he serve vodka with caviar?  Borscht?  (For those of you who don't know what borscht is, trust us, your better off).  For us, nothing speaks more of Brooklyn than Nathan's Finest, with our without saurkraut.  These are very important matters to us, the fans.  Its bad enough we have to forfeit our child's tuition to attend a Knick's game, but to then pay for food at costs that when combined can surpass the cost of the tickers, well, again, you get the idea.  At least make it good.  And if we are going to travel to Brooklyn, we want Brooklyn, not someone else's version of Brooklyn.  After all, after paying for the tickets and the food, it might be the last meal we have for week.  It might as well be memorable.

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For the first time since the calendar changed from the old millennium to the new, the Knick's, yes, the Knick's, acted fiscally responsible.  They reached agreements with both their free agents, David Lee ($7.5 million) and Nate Robinson ($2.9 million) on one year contracts yesterday.  This allows the team to go into the 2010 free agent sweepstakes with a tremendous amount of cap room with hopes of signing one, and potentially two of the big fish available (can you say LeBron, Wade, and/or Bosh?).

GM Donnie Walsh has a plan.  And yes folks, watching the Knick's will be painful this season.  But when next summer rolls around and one or two of the aforementioned free agents hopefully signs to plan at the World's Most Famous Arena, we'll gladly folk over our money for what will be $10 pretzels.  Today's deals are just the foreshadowing of the "Master Plan".  Let's hope that Walsh can pull off the same magic in 300 days.

The summer has come and gone, and the Knick's still haven't improved themselves free-agent wise.  It's not like they haven't tried, but there wasn't much pickings and the real prizes are available next year (like we have to list LeBron, Bosh, and the rest of the class).  So the idea was to get some complimentary pieces.  And here we are today, just before the opening of training camp.

David Lee is not signed, though he had some action from other teams.  Most thought he would be gone, and understandably so, since his price tag would interfere with the 2010 plans.  But here he is, still available and none to happy that the Knick's are thinking of low-balling him to keep the cap space.

On the wild side is Nate Robinson.  Most thought he was gone too as the Knick's interviewed everyone short of Bob Cousy to take his spot.  One by one they rejected the Knick's overtures.  And then Nate tried his hardest to be an upstanding citizen in the Bronx.  Well, "tried" may not be the best term as he has done his best to ruin his reputation.  The best he will most likely see is a one year $1 million dollar contract or he should start learning a European language.

The Knick's will take us through an up-and-down season with hopes of making the play-offs.  Next June starts the real season.