Well, now I know why everything is so expensive at Casual Male! They give free clothes to NBA players and we have to pay for it! Can you BELIEVE this:
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, a Chicago clothing store — Casual Male — alleges New York Knicks center Eddy Curry ran up a tab of more than $41,000 on clothes, and two years later it remains unpaid. Gulp.
Kara Spak of the Chicago Sun Times reports:
”It’s just a matter of him buying clothing he didn’t pay for,” said Edward Margolis, the attorney representing Casual Male and Jared M. Custom Clothing, a business popular with professional athletes that once was owned by Casual Male. […]
Purchases on Curry’s shopping trips, which occurred between January and April 2006, included $22,000 in suits, eight sweaters ranging from a $750 wool crew-neck to a $1,390 cashmere V-neck and more than $3,700 in ties.
The company also wants an additional $5,424 in interest.
And yes, before you ask, Casual Male is the largest specialty retailer of big and tall men’s apparel, with over 520 store locations throughout the United States, London, England and Canada.
Big and tall. Eddy Curry. Go nuts.
I wonder what $41,000 in clothes looks like? How much closet space do you need for that much clothes? I wonder how much of it was Made in the USA?
Well, the woman’s basketball coach at the University of Michigan really had a fit after his team lost to the University of Wisconsin (you can see it here!)
Boy, that really brought back some memories! I remember my college coach and one game, during a long losing season, he got mad at us for not going into a stall when he called one (oh, and we WON the game…which probably explains his anger) that when we dragged ourselves off the bus at 2 a.m he made us put on our wet, smelly uniforms and then he had us run drills till about 5 a.m…..
That was hell….
Pictured are the 2007-08 MATADORS for the Chicago Bulls!
You can read more about them at their website!
From the Associated Press:
The Florida Marlins are looking for some footloose fat men. The National League team is creating an all-male, plus-size cheerleading squad to be dubbed the Manatees. Tryouts were scheduled for Sunday.
The team hopes to recruit seven to 10 tubby men to dance, cheer and jiggle during Friday and Saturday home games this season.
Real manatees, 1,200-pound mammals sometimes referred to as “sea cows,” are not considered the most agile of creatures and often get caught in boat propellers.
The Marlins want their Manatees to have the same dimensions, but to be decidedly more agile. Men will be judged on how well they dance a choreographed routine.
The Marlins already have a cheerleading squad, the considerably more svelte Mermaids.
Men selected for the Manatees won’t be paid. They’ll get tickets to games they perform at, and the honor of dancing in front of crowds that have been smallest in major league baseball for the last two seasons.
The Marlins aren’t the only pro sports team capitalizing on Americans’ expanding waistlines. The Chicago Bulls basketball team have the Matadors, a big-man dance troupe that’s entertained fans at home games since 2003.
And although cheerleaders might be an unfamiliar site in baseball, big men aren’t, as fans have long cheered on the likes of Babe Ruth and Kirby Puckett.
