The Game of the Day = Guess who's positive!!!

[svauto-erotic855]

I don't know which story is more shocking, actor with aids or someone over 20 that's never heard of Magic.

Y'all are underestimating my homicidal raving hatred of profession basketball, it's players and most professional sports in general. 20 years ago if someone had tried to talk me up about some players health issues I would have punched them hard, more then once.

[idrivea4banger]

After all the fucking amazing things svo has done, that i will never do nor experience, you mean to tell me this motherfucker doesn't know who Magic motherfucker Johnson is? Are you kidding me, what fucking dimension am i in?

[Nash B.]

Y'all are underestimating my homicidal raving hatred of profession basketball, it's players and most professional sports in general. 20 years ago if someone had tried to talk me up about some players health issues I would have punched them hard, more then once.

You don't have to have paid any attention to sports to have heard about him. Hell, 90% of what I know about Kareem Abdul Jabbar is because of Airplane! and Die Hard.

[Strychnine]

BTW Charlie confirmed this in a TV interview this morning.

Charlie Sheen reveals he's HIV positive in TODAY Show exclusive


Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer.

"It's a hard three letters to absorb. It's a turning point in one's life," the 50-year-old actor said.


Sheen said he made the announcement to end a smear campaign and extortion efforts. "I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories that are about me, threatening the health of so many others that couldn't be further from the truth," he said. Sheen said he's trusted the diagnosis with people he thought he could confide in, but has paid out upwards of $10 million to keep the illness a secret.

"What people forget is that it's money taken from my children," he said about the "shakedowns" he has experienced. "I trusted them and they were deep in my inner circle, and I thought they could be helpful. My trust turned to their treason."

He said appearing on TODAY will help put a stop to those payouts. "That's my goal. That's not my only goal. I think I release myself from this prison today," he said. Sheen said he was diagnosed roughly four years ago but doesn't know how he contracted the virus. "It started with what I thought was a series of crushing headaches," he said. "I thought I had a brain tumor. I thought it was over." He also insisted it was "impossible" that he knowingly transmitted the virus to others. While he admitted to having unprotected sex with two people since the diagnosis, both were informed ahead of time and have been under the care of his doctor.

HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS, which has no cure. But "Charlie does not have AIDS," said the actor's physician, Dr. Robert Huizenga, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. While an HIV-positive diagnosis used to be considered a death sentence, and there still is no cure, medical advancements have helped turn it into a manageable illness. However, antiviral drugs must be taken for a lifetime. Sheen revealed he takes four pills every day, and his doctor said the main battle facing the actor is not related to HIV, but lapsing into past substance abuse problems or depression related to his diagnosis.

"We're petrified about Charlie. We're so, so anxious that if he was overly depressed, if he was abusing substance, he would forget these pills and that's been an incredible worry," he said. However, he said Sheen has been vigilant about his regiment. "Magically, somehow in the midst of incredible personal mayhem, he's managed to continue to take these medications," Huizenga said.

Sheen said he hopes by going public with the diagnosis, it will help dispel the stigma of HIV."I have a responsibility now to better myself and to help a lot of other people and hopefully with what we're doing today others will come forward and say, thanks Charlie," he said. Sheen said he told ex-wives Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller about the diagnosis when he found out. He also shared the news recently with his oldest daughter. "It hit her hard, but she recovered. She's tough like her dad," he said. "I said, 'I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, but it didn't seem like you could do anything for me and I didn't want to burden you with all the stress.' But she was a rock star about it."

Sheen's personal announcement Tuesday renewed a spotlight on Sheen's troubled history with drug addiction, pornography and prostitutes. Sheen rose to become one of Hollywood's best-known actors through a series of memorable movie roles including "Wall Street" and "Red Dawn." In more recent years, however, his public persona was shaped by a public meltdown during his 2011 feud with the creator of "Two and a Half Men," the television series that helped him become the highest-paid television actor at the time. In the end, Sheen was fired from the show. Sheen told Lauer that his behavior at the time had little to do with his diagnosis. "I wish I could blame it on that," he said. "That was more of a (ste)roid rage. This was on the heels of that."

Sheen admitted that period was not one he looks back fondly on. "There's a lot out there I'm not proud of. You can only hear 'winning' in the streets so many times," he said. "I've pissed off a lot of really good opportunities." But he said he's entering a more thoughtful and reflective phase in his life. "I'm approaching a time of more of a philanthropic approach in my life," he said. He admitted that paying off people to keep quiet about his condition, as well as other factors, have diminished his financial status.

"It's not great. It will be great again. I'm a survivor. I've been up, I've been down, I've been rich, I've been poor," he said. "It's another chapter in my life but it's not commerce driven. It's socially driven." He said he doubts his HIV positive status will have an impact on his future career, pointing out a conversation he is having with the chairman of Sony, who he said is "excited about doing a show again." He also said he has several films lined up. "Thus far, there's been no resistance," he said.

[GrayStangGT]

I wonder if SVO has ever heard of a guy named Michael Jordan.

[LANTIRN]

I wonder if SVO has ever heard of a guy named Michael Jordan.

He said no sports! Don't make him punch you several times.

[sc281]

I wonder if SVO has ever heard of a guy named Michael Jordan.

That's the track guy, right?

[1carcrazyguy]

Nope, just the guy that designs shoes....

[Tremor14]

He said no sports! Don't make him punch you several times.

hard

[svauto-erotic855]

You don't have to have paid any attention to sports to have heard about him. Hell, 90% of what I know about Kareem Abdul Jabbar is because of Airplane! and Die Hard.

I knew about Kareem because of "Airplane" and the kung foo movies he was in. I did not know he was in "Die Hard".

I wonder if SVO has ever heard of a guy named Michael Jordan.

I know of this guy because his shoes are ubiquitous.

Has Mr Johnson had a consumer product named after him or has he played a major role in a movie?

[Tremor14]

Pretty much every star bucks is his.

[svauto-erotic855]

Pretty much every star bucks is his.

What is star bucks ?

[Baron Von Crowder]

What is star bucks ?

You cant drive 20 miles without passing two of them, give up on that line of bullshit.

[1carcrazyguy]

Svo is getting out whataburgered in this thread. It appears he is losing his celebrity status.

[svauto-erotic855]

You cant drive 20 miles without passing two of them, give up on that line of bullshit.

Yes; I was joking about that.