Air Jordan fever has swept the country, as frenzied shoppers pushed their way into their local malls to get their hands on re-issued Nike Concords. We reported on Air Jordan arrests in Atlanta earlier, but perhaps the most insane footage of today’s sneaker assault comes from Indianapolis, where doors were snapped off and a stampede actually broke out with people actually being trampled on the way into the store.

Newly reissued Air Jordans drew hysteria in Atlanta, as customers broke down the doors, leading to multiple arrests including one woman who left her two toddlers in her car. According to the sneaker blog NiceKicks, “The Air Jordan 11 Concord is widely regarded as one of, if not the most, popular sneakers of all-time. Michael Jordan debuted the Air Jordan 11 Concord during his comeback in the 1995 NBA Playoffs.”

Today the Internet yielded a fantastical, magical heretofore-mostly-unknown discovery: the Michael Jordan Twitter feed. Is it really Michael Jordan? Surely not, as it is unverified and has been around for almost two years. Is it hilarious? Pretty much, yeah — which leaves us shaking our heads as to how it has been around for almost two years without completely blowing up.

William C. Rhoden wrote an open letter to LeBron James in yesterday’s New York Times, imploring him to play for the Charlotte Bobcats and its majority owner, Michael Jordan.

Michael Jordan is back in the news, as new details are emerging regarding his fire-sale purchase of the Charlotte Bobcats, and the financial troubles faced by former owner Robert Johnson. This comes one day after a Vanity Fair piece shed light on his alleged bad influence on Tiger Woods.

Mark Seal‘s “The Temptation of Tiger Woods” piece in the new issue of Vanity Fair provides just as many down-and-dirty details as you’d expect from a Tiger exposé at this point. There’s the revelation that members of Tiger Wood‘s inner circle didn’t just know of his affairs, they helped cover them up. There’s the depressing accounts of Earl Woods‘ alleged womanizing and bouts with alcoholism. And, there’s this, which takes the cake for “most sordid detail nobody really needed to know about.”

Who: Dan Klores (filmmaker), Donnie Walsh (New York Knicks), Brandon Tierney (1050 ESPN Radio), moderated by Rick Allen (SnagFilms) What: ESPN’s 30 for 30 “Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks” When: February 4, 2010 Where: The Paley Center For Media Thumbs: Like the photo: One up for the movie. One down for [...]

In Bill Simmons‘ The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy you essentially get a 700 page Simmons column, complete with lists of the 96 greatest players of all time, the ten best teams in history and around 1,500 words on how Kobe Bryant compares to Teen Wolf. Nobody knows more about the history of basketball than Bill Simmons.

When Mark Whicker heard the tragic story of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a child and held captive for 18 years by a convicted sex criminal and religious loon, all he could think of was the sports milestones she missed. But instead of confining this crass, narrow-minded realization to a drunken card game conversation, he went and turned it into an entire sports column for the OC Register.