Jeff Van Gundy must be smiling

Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy must be smiling.

Apparently unhappy that his superstar center wasn't behaving like a typical NBA prima donna regarding his shoe company, the usually unsmiling coach made a few cracks that Yao Ming's shoe company (Reebok) is somehow responsible for the center's chronic toe problems (never mind that the center had the same shoe company and was wearing the same shoes during the world championships this summer).

That prompted a Chronicle story. And another. And a feature.

And Chronicle blog posts.

And a Chronicle sports column.

And today, the Chronicle Editorial LiveJournalists weighed in!

Cracking on Reebok.

Somehow, I don't think journalists in the world's greatest media city would have given the perpetually dour coach's shoe complaints quite so much play back when he was heading up the Knicks.

Seriously, can you imagine the New York Times editorial page weighing in on such a trivial matter?

No. That wouldn't be world class.

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UPDATE: I didn't notice this sidebar on the feature story when I posted. It's priceless:

Ten things you need to know about toes and toenails

• Post-mortem toenail clippings can reveal drug use.

• Alan "Nasty" Nash and Paul 'The Toeminator" Beech have been the ones to beat in the World Toe Wrestling Championships held each summer in Berkshire, England.

• The person with the most toes and fingers is 11-year-old Devendra Harne of India who has 13 toes and 12 fingers as a result of polydactylism, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

• The big toe also is known as the hallux. Morton's toe refers to a second toe that is longer than the hallux.

• One of Catherine Zeta-Jones' toenails was ripped off in August when a member of the Death Defying Acts film crew accidentally stepped on her foot at a London hotel.

• A naked toe tickler who breaks into houses and touches women's feet has been spotted but not caught in the Daytona Beach, Fla., area.

• Tick-tack-toe has nothing to do with feet.

• The most common toenail problems treated by podiatrists are ingrown nails, abnormal thickening of the toenails and toenail fungus.

• You can order a package of toe tags like those used by mortuaries and hospitals at novelty stores and Web sites such as www.pushindaisies.com.

• It's never a good idea to type the words "toe fetish" into a search engine.

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/12/06 10:36 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (1)

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