Stu’s Hunt Down: Spud Webb
Posted on June 19th, 2008 – 3:17 PMBy Michael Rand
A note to the anxious: Your bobblehead images and links will be up next. For now, enjoy the dulcet tones of Stu:
Name: Spud Webb
Nickname: it would be better if Spud was short for “Spudwick,” but his given name is Anthony.
Claim to Fame, Minnesota: you remember that he played for the Wolves in 1996, right? And that we got him in the Christian Laettner trade, right? You didn’t? Yeah, me neither. (By all means, read the Laettner quotes from the NYDN link so you can despise him all over again. If smug were money, Chris Laettner would own the world.)
Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: he was to short what Manute Bol was to tall. Despite this, he made a career out of a sport that people had been telling him he couldn’t play since he was in high school. Most memorably, he won the Slam Dunk Contest in 1986.
Where He Is Now: his website says that he’s available for motivational speaking engagements. To book him, call 1-888-883-SPUD. (Note: if you accidentally call 1-888-883-STUD, you’ll find the motivational speaking to be much more explicit, and you will need a credit card number.) In addition, the Beaufort Gazette had a nice Q-and-A with Spudwick last month.
Glorious Randomness: Spud Webb’s back-up at NC State? Vinny Del Negro. The more you know.
11 Responses to "Stu’s Hunt Down: Spud Webb"
If smug were money, Chris Laettner would own the world.
Well put, that. +2.
The Al Jefferson’s have leaked their new logo. Which rookie will be dawning this cap only to realize they will get traded 20 minutes later?
http://nba.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/p4865277dt.jpg
jama — our sources have indicated that’s only their new “alternative” logo.
Waldo was a photographer - who knew?
Brandon: +1, with a little mid-afternoon coffee on the keyboard. Outstanding.
Rand
Alternative, of course, because releasing the “real” logo would be to easy.
By the way after watching your Strib TV debut, I’d have to say that your golf game looks pretty solid. And next time you see Corey Brewer tell him to quit taking golf lessons from Charles Barkley. And give him a cheeseburger.
The wolf looks like just spent some quality time with a lynx.
“To book him, call 1-888-883-SPUD. (Note: if you accidentally call 1-888-883-STUD, you’ll find the motivational speaking to be much more explicit, and you will need a credit card number.)”
I don’t need Rondell Sheridan to tell me THAT’S FUNNY!
“A note to the anxious: Your bobblehead images and links will be up next.”
The person pictured in my bobblehead was holding a bat, hence making it a sports related photo. So you better link to it.
Brandon +1
My day is complete.
Kind of off topic but, Good Lord, the new logo sucks. MP109/The McLovins need to realize that the logo is not the problem. The logo isn’t jinxing you, it’s our (redacted) Celtics HOFer GM (congrats on your latest title). Also, I liked the old logo it was almost as sweet as the Vancouver Grizzlies old logo…Oh (redacted) that might not be a good thing.
