Black Intel

ith young stars at dizzying heights of fame and differing levels of maturity, there’s nothing common about sense with former New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress sitting in jail for possessing an illegal firearm that went off by accident in a club, hitting him in the thigh. It barely matters now whether the New York Post story, the only one reporting the players actually drew their guns, is confirmed or not. As the most sensational version, it eclipsed all others and is now the one thing everyone has heard.

“I started having hot flashes and sweats,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar told CBS News correspondent Jeff Greenfield. “And I wasn’t a candidate for menopause, you know? So, trying to figure out what that was all about.”

Post game report