The Media Loves Dead Pop Stars, Dead Pitchmen, and Tracy McGrady

Tracy McGrady, the guy known for playoff futility, the inability to stay healthy, and for a tremendous aversion to playing defense is in the news for—of all things—changing uniform numbers. Obviously this is a slow news week. No dead pitchmen or pop stars, yet. So the story goes that T-Mac, of the Houston Rockets (for the moment), is changing uniform numbers from 'No. 1' to 'No. 3' for the purpose of promoting his movie "3 Points Darfur," which chronicles his trip to the Sudan in 2007. T-Mac is also donating $75,000, which will hopefully help a dozen or so people out; sounds magnanimous, but is really equal to a guy who makes $20 grand giving 75 bucks. Hardly worth being endorsed as a great humanitarian in a news story. Is this really a selfless gesture? Is it worthy of a news story? Or is T-Mac's PR agency just making sure we all know he's willing to put out what is not, when mathematically calculated, e...