Two days ago Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist Stephen A. Smith described Allen Iverson as an athlete in a world of trouble. He claimed Iveson has been banned from Atantic City & Detroit casinos and that the former league MVP has a serious drinking problem.

Smith cited numberous NBA sources are worried that Iverson will either drink his way to his death or gamble his life away.

Iverson began his second stint with the Sixers this year when he wore out his welcome in Memphis and appeared to be back on track. He left the team on December 20th to be with his sick daughter, only to be served divorce papers from his wife Tawanna on March 4th.

The Sixers severed ties with him the same day.

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New York – NBA commissioner David Stern has indefinitely suspended Gilbert Arenas, saying the Washington Wizards guard is “not currently fit to take the court” for a game.

Stern said in a statement Wednesday that Arenas’ actions will “ultimately result in a substantial suspension, and perhaps worse.”

Because Arenas violated NBA rules by bringing guns into Washington’s locker room, Stern decided to punish Arenas now. He said the suspension begins immediately.

“We fully endorse the decision of the NBA to indefinitely suspend Gilbert Arenas,” the Wizards responded in a statement on Wednesday. “Strictly legal issues aside, Gilbert’s recent behavior and statements, including his actions and statements last night in Philadelphia, are unacceptable. Some of our other players appeared to find Gilbert’s behavior in Philadelphia amusing. This is also unacceptable. Under Abe Pollin’s leadership, our organization never tolerated such behavior, and we have no intention of ever doing so.”

Stern says he originally planned to wait for the criminal investigation to be completed before taking action, and had directed the Wizards to do the same.

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After going off on the industry for what was reported as an attempt to blackball his new album Grafitti, Chris Brown deleted his Twitter account today.

Brown began the day with a normal “hello” tweet, which had become his routine in the past few months, but has since said his goodbyes.

“I WANNA THANK MY FANS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT,” said Brown’s final tweet, posted Monday afternoon. “I LOVE YALL. GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Brown’s beef began when he walked into a Connecticut store and failed to see Graffiti on its shelves. When he approached the Manager to inquire as to whether the store was sold out, there were no answers. He inquired further as to Graffiti’s whereabouts in the stock room and there were apparently none.

Brown used his microblog member name “mechanicaldummy” to express his anger and frustration over the incident and news spread fast.

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So Rosa Acosta had a contest with her Twitter followers and promised them if they boosted her numbers up from 15k to 20k, she’d do “another stretching video.”

Pure dedication… Stretch sells.

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Rumors of Kanye West’s death emerged overnight and even hit FOX News, as the Chicago born rapper was reportedly killed in a gruesome accident in Los Angeles. Various sources reported Ye’s red Porsche wrapped around a pole, at some point colliding with another luxury vehicle.

For more than four hours, the news was  a trending topic on Twitter and, Amber Rose, the subject of Kanye’s on again off again romantic affair, stepped in to dead the mischief.

She took to the popular microblog networking site and had this to say:

DaRealAmberRose: This RIPKanyeWest topic is not funny and it’s NOT TRUE!  He has people like myself and his family that love him very much.

DaRealAmberRose: It’s in extreme poor taste to have that as a trendy topic.  It’s totally disrespectful to make up a story like this where all human

DaRealAmberRose: And we all make mistakes and to say someone died cuz of a mistake is ridiculous.  U wouldn’t’ want someone to say that about u.

You have to wonder how a uniformed police officer arrived on the scene and ultimately reported such foolishness… but such is the world we live in.