1:25pm…AD back on the blog…well it was a busy weekend in the community for the Nighthawks and no way to top it off with the Allen Iverson Celebrity Football game. Randy “White Chocolate” Gill and Andrew “Spongebob” Washington joined head coach Lawrence Moten in the 10th annual celebrity classic. Although this was a friendly “flag football’ game it seemed as if White Chocolate was taking it a little too seriously tackling players. WC did however managed to score a TD in which he celebrated by dribbling the football between his legs as if it was a basketball. Check out the photos and video below for some highlights. WC is wearing the white Brett Favre packer’s jersey, Moten is wearing a blue cowboys #3 jersey, and Spongebob is wearing a blue t-shirt and white shorts.





4:15 mark is when they start showing highlights from the celeb game
5:17 – Moten tries to block Nelly
5:37 – Randy tackles someone
6:36 – Randy tries to tackle Iverson, then someone knocks him
8:10 – Randy interview
8:25 – Spongebob high fives Nelly

2:10PM…AD back on the blog…sorry for the lack of posts, we’re still here just very very busy! Lots of events going on starting with this weekend, Head Coach Lawrence Moten and players Randy “White Chocolate” Gill and Andrew “Spongebob” Washington will be part of the Allen Iverson Celebrity Summer Classic. The weekend will be filled with events from a community 3-on-3 tournament as well as the famous “Celebrity Flag Football” game which all three Nighthawks will be playing in alongside with Allen Iverson, Carmello Anthony, Richard Hamilton, Nelly and much more. The game will be held on Sunday at 5PM at the PG Sports & Learning Complex and tickets are on sale to the general public. Will post behind the scenes videos, photos, and interviews from this weekend’s affairs right here on the blog! The following weekend Andrew “Spongebob” Washington and Dunkin’ will be at the Bethesda Big Train game throwing out the first pitches and signing autographs…thought you’d also enjoy this video of AND1 streetball player Pat da Roc teaching you his trademarked “Crazy Legs” move. Enjoy!

8:12PM...AD blogging...The PBL announced yesterday that they have come to an agreement on an exclusive national TV deal with Penn Atlantic Networks. Penn Atlantic will be launching a new 24 hour sports television network beginning in January 2009 – right in time for the start of the PBL season. The network will be available on the new digital television sub channels. For example, digital sub channels for a main channel operating on Channel 8 would be 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3. This is part of the new digital broadcasting that will be taken effect in February 2009. Should be a tremendous amount of exposure for the league and players!

2:15PM...AD on the blog...last Friday the Nighthawks were at the Washington Episcopal School in North Bethesda as they kicked off their "Believe In Your Dreams" Tour. On hand were PBL CEO and Nighthawks Owner Tom Doyle and Luis "TRIKZ" da Silva. TRIKZ was drafted 4th overall in the 2008 PBL expansion draft by the Dallas Defenders where he played last season. TRIKZ is considered to be "the best" ball handler in the world, maybe this is why Nike signed him to an endorsement deal at the age of 18 where he appeared in the Nike Freestyle commercials (see below), many consider these commercials the best Nike has ever produce. TRIKZ has also been featured in five video games (NBA Ballers I, II, III, AND1 Streetball, and LA RUSH w/Kanye West), has helped Jay-Z with the MTV Music Awards, and appeared in the movie "The Brave One" with Jodie Foster...AND when he introduced himself to the students, he said "I now play for the Maryland Nighthawks, your home team." Should be interesting to watch and see what this develops into!

4:00pm…AD blogging…thought id update you on some of the nighthawks players and what they have been doing since the season has ended (I am going to post player in depth interviews on the main site as off season progresses). Anyhow, Andrew Washington was playing in Mexico for a while and White Chocolate had a stint playing in the Dominican Republic. Both players are now back…the summer is an interesting time, some of the Nighthawks players play on the AND1 team (Hugh “Baby Jones” Shaq and David Bailey), some go overseas while others play at Rutgers Park in NYC and at Barry Farms in Washington DC. Let me know who’d you like to hear from and we’ll do an interview!

3:15PM…AD here…well it’s been a busy week at the Premier Basketball League headquarters in Washington DC…the PBL announced this week that it will have seven expansion teams that will tip off this upcoming season: the Buffalo Dragons, Manchester Millrats, Vermont Frost Heaves, Detroit Panthers, Quebec Kebs, Montreal Sasquatch and Toronto Lasers. Including all of last season’s teams, the PBL now stands at 17 teams. Should be interesting with the PBL now in Canada and a very talented Vermont Frostheave team who won the last two ABA championships.

1:55PM…AD on the blog...hope you nighthawk fans are enjoying this great weather! I have been receiving lots of positive feedback from the new website….people seem to like the design and the easy navigation. I just sent out an email blast to the people on the Nighthawks mailing list. If you haven’t already signed up for the mailing list, you can do you by registering here….anyways I have a pretty interesting story to share with you. I was out grabbing a bite to east last evening at Chima steakhouse in Tyson’s Corner and guess who walks in….Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards! I was contemplating whether or not to go up to him and talk to him, so finally after a few minutes I see him go up to help himself at the salad bar so I decide to go up to. Now, for those of you that don’t know…a few years ago back in my “youth” days, I was a huge Gilbert Arenas fan, went to a Wizards game on my birthday, made a sign asking for his jersey, and what do you know, he spots it and I get his jersey! So Gil and I are talking last evening, I thanked him for the jersey started talking about his contract situation – when asked him if he was going to stay in Washington, he replied “we’re working on that.” Finally, I told him my story and how I work for the Nighthawks and then he says “isn’t that the team White Chocolate plays for,” so we start talking about White Chocolate and how he works out at the Verizon Center in the summer. Then I tell him about the celebrity player rule that the PBL has which enables a celebrity to play in a game (the Nighthawks have had former Baltimore Raven Adalius Thomas, Gheorge Muresan, and J.P. Flaim of the Junkies play). He sounded pretty interested; don’t know if NBA contracts allow it, but hey, you never know…Gilbert in a Nighthawks jersey?…anything is possible!