Barkley on Yao and Thursday

Damn...so it could have been a lot worse for Chuck .

 

Looks like this is the final answer:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/sports/bk/bkn/1671281
Nov. 20, 2002, 10:34PM

-Payoff moved up-

In a transparent effort to boost the ratings for his new TNT talk show Listen Up!, Charles Barkley will pay off on his Yao Ming-related wager with network colleague Kenny Smith during the show at 6 p.m. today.

Barkley had promised to kiss Smith's posterior if Yao scored at least 19 points in a game this season. Yao scored 20 last Sunday against the Lakers, and Smith is making Barkley hold up his end of the wager.

"If you make a bet, you pay up," Barkley said Wednesday on a CNN talk show. "I just told Kenny to take a shower before the show. I made the bet, and I'm going to stick by my word."

Smith said earlier this week that Barkley would pay up during halftime of the Rockets-Mavericks game on TNT tonight, but a network spokesman said the event had been moved to the Listen Up! show, which Barkley hosts with Ernie Johnson Jr.

 

Susan - thanks for the article, I have corrected the link here.


ron413 - thanks again! I will set the VCR.

 

Sorry about the link - thanks for correcting me. Tonight should be fun.

 

That seems only fair, since Kenny will be holding up his end.

 

No problem, thanks again for finding that, I usually don't spend too much time digging through espn - too much junk.

On your "url=" take out the "]" and put it after the url address. So it should be "[ url =http:...]Name you want displayed[ /url]" without the spaces.

 

Thanks again . . ..so here is a vague Yao Ming reference in today’s London Times newspaper (of all places) that I came across by accident. The article concerns the future potential of Chinese players to succeed in professional tennis. Sorry in advance for the most obscure Yao reference of the day:

November 21, 2002 London Times
“Why the Future Masters Might Be Chinese”
by Neil Harman, Tennis correspondent

“When a TV audience greater than the entire population of the United States can tune in to watch a Chinese basketball player performing in the NBA, what might happen to Wimbledon’s viewing figures if China found a tennis player who could win on grass?”

 

Haha! that's one good analogy!

Let's see what will happen tonight!

 

This is going to be one fun night! Dream scenario: Sir. Charles pays his debt; Yao scores another 20 pts. and the Rockets win!, that would be awesome!