
For those of you who don't read the FanHaus, you may be unfamiliar with the work of Miss Gossip. She creates brilliant and ridiculous MS Paint drawings or puts together other odd images for all of her posts — the end result makes her one of the few instantly recognizable bloggers on the AOL uber-blog's otherwise visually sterile site.
This weekend Miss Gossip wrote "The Story of Grant Hill," in which she inexplicably and hilariously paired up photos of Hill and Knut the polar bear. Why? I don't know, but it was awesome. In Gossip's version of Hill's history, the Duke alum "was born in 1972 in Dallas, Texas. His mother abandoned him at birth and he was raised in Berlin by a kind German zookeeper. Against all odds, the adorable Hill flourished under the difficult conditions…" (The link in the quote is hers, obviously.)
The AOL commenters… oh, just read it for yourself:
- I THOUGHT GRANT HILL WAS THE SON OF NFL STAR CALVIN HILL. IS THAT TRUE? IF CALVIN HILL WAS DADD TO GRANT WHY DIDNT HE RAISE HIM? EITHER WAY I HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED GRANT HILL. AFTER READING THIS STORY I EVEN ADMIRE GRANT HILL EVEN MORE.
- What is the relationship between Hill and the bear?
- I think the person who wrote this artcle needs to do a little research in the form of finding out who Hill's parents are. His mother was roomates with Hillary Clinton in college and his father WAS Calvin Hill if I remember right was a pro bowler. Hill grew up with all the financial advantages and that is part of the reason he went to private high school and Duke University. Do some research next time!!
- What is the purpose of this story? Is it suppose to be funny? If it is then whoever wrote it is just silly, why write a story like this? some people are going to believe this. Grant Hill was not abandoned as a child dont believe this story.
My head hurts.


It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are. How do the people who write these comments not kill themselves somehow before they are old enough to use a computer?
so wait? are you telling me that pacman jones is not a yellow circle?
That’s so sad. Poor people – they can’t help being morons.
Oh, and those photos are awesome.
Awesome photos! I think next she should pair up photos of my ass and the people who post in her comments section.
commenters above = votefortheworst.com american idol mailbag
These are the same people who post in the ESPN conversation. That these people probably also vote scares the living shit out of me.
In defense of the stupid people, it really was a dumb post.
ryan: not only do they vote, they fucking drive automobiles as well….
i think i would pay Miss Gossip $50 if she wrote a follow-up explaining that she mistaken paired 2 pictures of Grant Hill with the Orlando Magic with 2 pictures of Grant Hill “before his yearly shaving”.
Are we saying snorg girl’s mother really does or does not attend college?
i wonder what kind of responses she would get if she wrote about Anderson Varejao’s exploits in his days spent as a sidekick to a popular kids tv show host in Springfield?
Oh no, Ohio State “grads” are starting to read blogs?
I forgot all about this. I think we should start doing a weekly round-up of the best the FanHaus has to offer.
Ufford, you are no stranger to the horror that is AOL FanHouse commenters.
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Grant Hill’s father was NOT Dick Weber.
Matt, a commenter once left this on one of my posts.
In the pastI have written about the hibocrisy of the asshole’s that fot for and report sports. Maybe they should have to live by the same rule’s that the players live by. Maybe they for get that Mc Wire saved baseball. Now tell me the last time a sports writer did anything close to something constructive to sports except screw things up. The asshole that found what he thought was a steriod in McWire’s locker was nothing more the an ameno asid. but this asshole wanted his fifteen minuts of fame. and still to today nobody remewmers his name, MORON.
The post was about Travis Hafner.
@Fornelli
Wow. Just wow.
Jamie Mottram needs a commenting intern.
Yeah because that worked out so well for Deadspin…
OK, so does Alonzo Mourning play Stinger Bell on “The Wire” or not? I don’t know what to believe any more…
+10 DeBerg, mostly for the Pacman comment but for general awesomeness as well. And why do so many people comment in all caps? Do they think that ADDS to their credibility? “I want to say something, but I really want to mean it! TAKE THAT, MISS GOSSIP!”
FanHaus is in Germany, isn’t it? A little respect and understanding for The Hof’s fans and their confusion about our language.
About 10,000 retards thought I was Gilbert Arenas. True story.
Imagine what these knuckleheads would think of The Dugout. “Aren’t these players worried about their private conversations becoming public?”
This is just knuts.
How can these people even operate a computer? Is there a petting zoo out there with an AOL connection?
AOL Commenters cannot read. The insults written here about their intelligence will not be read to them.
Woah, woah woah. You’re not Gilbert, Skeets?
Wait. Calvin Hill was a pro BOWLER? I thought he played football…And I can’t wait to see Grant Hill eat a baby seal.
Grant Hill’s father clubbed baby seals? That’s just sick!
(Hope your knee heals up quick, Skeets.)
Haha, “Godless killing machines” – nice reference.
Holy crap, just read this and read the AOL comments. PLEASE kill me.