This is probably the first non-basketball post on A Stern Warning, but people really need to see this. Women's soccer (aka football) just got ugly. Really ugly. New Mexico's Elizabeth Lambert, take a bow, you may just be the dirtiest player in all of sport. She has some serious aggression issues to sort out. Check out this montage of her dastardly deeds.

NBA Players and pro sports people in general get a pretty strong reputation for flouting the laws of us mere mortals. A few alleged incidents have sprung to public consciousness in the last few days to prolong this idea. Note, all of these stories are alledged and I would not be surprised if all are false. Still, that won't stop me putting them out there for you to make your own judgement on.

A new header image today for the Warnings. A few throwbacks to the former glory days of the NBL! Now, straight to the links.

The struggling Melbourne Tigers have finally placed that call for the cavalry to save the day -- and riding over the horizon is former Adelaide 36ers super-import, Julius Hodge. The versatile 6'7" swingman comes with a tonne of talent and plenty of controversy. In short, he's perfect for the Tigers.

Mark Cuban is no stranger to controversy. Whether it's his jibes at David Stern and the NBA's referees or his taunting of opposing players and "over-involvement" in the Dallas Mavericks' team huddle. He most recently dipped his toes into the media fishbowl with suggestions that steroids should be used in the NBA (within reason) in order to speed-up the healing process and reduce injury down time -- this of course raised a variety of responses.

However, I refer to none of these things here. It's worth remembering that outside of David Stern's empire, Cuban was originally an billionaire dot-com entrepreneur and is now the chairman and co-founder of HDNet, the first high-definition satellite television network. He has a multitude of views on the future of the internet, media and broadcasting.

One of those views is that paid content is the way of the future. As you can imagine, in this internet-is-the-way, everything-is-free society, that rubs a lot of people the wrong way. To summarise, Cuban's idea appears to be that for traditional media to continue to exist and be profitable, they need to monetise better by making all of their content into paid content.

Whilst the casual fan will not, ardent NBA fans from "back in the day" will know the name Alan Ogg. He gathered a popular following in his short time in the league, particularly with his first team, the Miami Heat. Standing at 7'2", he was a specialist shot-blocker, who spent three seasons in the NBA (two with Miami, before splitting his third between the Milwaukee Bucks and Washington Bullets).

"I'd like to thank my mum and dad... my 4th grade teacher..."

It's taken me a few days to say anything about this, as I've just been getting over the shock and the intense partying (you would have seen the choreographed fireworks in major capitals across the globe), but... I won an award. Thanks to all of that lobbying I did here, I somehow was awarded the Bloguin Award for Blogger of the Year 2009.

Who woulda thunk it? And if you don't believe me, it's written in black and white electronic ink over on the main Bloguin site.

So, thanks to everyone who voted. And thanks to those that didn't, because you just make me strive that bit harder to prove you wrong, so that I can one day have as bitter a Hall of Fame speech as Michael Jordan did.

Just a few quick NBA articles to get your day going. Most of these include video, so it's easy "reading" if it's early morning for you in your neck of the woods.

The Weekly Warnings is a new feature to the site, where we recap the week that has been across the league. Here we highlight the most interesting tweet, story, image, video and stat line of the week, providing you with a snapshot of what you may have missed across the NBA.