Although the unemployment rate is reported to be marginally better, your employer will no doubt still fire your ass for no reason at all.  Take the example of four employees at Fidelity Investments who were fired for being in a fantasy football league.  The company took notice of this and immediately let the four employees go even though supposedly none of the employees used company time to manage their team (which was probably a lie, but that’s beside the point).

When asked about this issue, the Boston-based mutual fund company responded:

Participation in any form of gambling through the use of Fidelity time or equipment or any other company resource is prohibited.  We want our employees to be focused on our customers and clients.

Of course, luring clients to your underperforming funds and gambling with their money is ok and even encouraged by Fidelity.  When it comes to gambling with your own money, that’s a big no no.

May or may not be the three guys who were fired

Kevin Johnson who used to play for the Suns was one of the classier guys in the NBA from back in the days.  After his NBA career, he moved on to bigger and better things: as mayor of Sacramento.  Little did he know that upon visiting San Francisco earlier this week that he would have his bags stolen.  If there was a sports betting site that allowed me to bet on whether he was robbed at gunpoint, I would tend to say yes, but unlike other athlete robberies, this wasn’t the case.  Johnson tried to help out an old man cross the street and onto a taxi and the next thing he knows, his suit, shoes and everything else was stolen.  This is posted on his blog.

Later on, he posted the blog that someone eventually turned his stolen items in.  What’s interesting is what Kevin had to say about the content of his bag.

He (the founder of the bag) described the contents – including items not publicly revealed.

Now what could the content of those items be?  One can only speculate.  Use your imagination.

Derrick Rose

Ellis Lanksder

Nike really dropped the ball on this one

I think they mean Bruins

UCLA maybe?

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A set of motivational tapes written b Powers when could throw a baseball faster than fuck

The intro to the first episode of E & O

I’m not exactly sure what Thomas is doing in a room filled with black people , well besides the NFL locker room, but his sister is married to Jason Taylor. I guess that makes him black in-law.