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It was right before the NBA season kicked off that Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman gained national attention. During a game between the New York Knicks and Israel's champion Maccabi Tel Aviv, Pini Gershon, Maccabi's coach, got two technical fouls, refused to leave the floor and that's when Rabbi Grossman stepped in. In this exclusive FanHouse video we talk to the Rabbi about that very moment.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

There are close to 4.5 million Native Americans living in about 565 federally recognized communities across the Untied States. Many of these communities have been neglected, and unemployment in some areas is as high as 80 percent. The shortage of funds results in little to no organized youth sports activities. Diabetes and obesity are fast-growing problems.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

At 6-foot-5, Oscar-nominated Michael Clarke Duncan is a pretty big dude, who also happens to be pretty good at Muay Thai. In fact, before starring in such films as the Green Mile and Talladega Nights, Michael used his fighting skills as a bodyguard, working for Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, and the Notorious B.I.G., among others.

In this video we ask Duncan if he would ever get into the octagon to face MMA stars, and we get an interesting answer.

Interview after the jump.

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

In what many people found a surprising move, Lamar Odom recently married Khloe Kardashian after just three weeks of dating. In this video we talk to someone who is an expert on dating, actress comedian Luenell. You may remember her from the movie Borat. She says she knows how Khloe got Lamar.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

In the hip-hop culture having a cool car is the first step for anyone who wants to be a playa, including rap stars. And that's where the Swift car club comes in. They take regular cars and pimp them out in a very artistic fashion. Their cars appear in music videos (like 50 Cent and 36 Mafia) as well as photo shoots.

After the jump, we check out a Chrysler 300 that its owner turner it into a pimp-mobile.

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

Actor and comedian Cedric the Entertainer is a huge sports fan who tells us that he use to be a boxer and these days he enjoys golf. In this FanHouse exclusive we talk to Cedric at the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California (not to be confused with the Sherwood Forest -- home of Robin Hood). Cedric who hangs out with lots of top athletes tells us about the time he was doing Vegas with Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Charles Barkley.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

Actor Tom Arnold has been a longtime NBA fan. In fact, you can say he is far from the fly-by-night Hollywood "fan". In this FanHouse exclusive we talk to Tom about being Shaq's next-door neighbor, who is the best player in NBA history (the answer will surprise you), and who, in his opinion, should start for the Lakers.

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Mark Whicker, a sports columnist for the Orange County Register, has been at the center of a Twitter firestorm Wednesday for a column he wrote about Jaycee Dugard, who was rescued last month after being held for more than 18 years by a couple now charged with kidnapping and abusing her.

The column, which was written as if to inform Dugard about the sports events she's missed over the last 18 years, was decried on Twitter as the "worst sports column ever" and referred to at the Huffington Post as "The Single Most Tasteless Sports Column In The History Of Written Language."

You can read the column and judge for yourself, but this afternoon I e-mailed Whicker to ask him if he came up with the idea for the column or if an editor assigned it, whether he thinks his words run the risk of trivializing the kidnapping of Dugard, and what he thinks about the response.

Justin Bieber isn't your typical 15-year-old sports fan. The recording artist, who was discovered on YouTube in 2007 and whose videos have now been seen more than 50 million times on the same site, is considered to be one of the rising stars in the world of pop music. So much so that Justin Timberlake and Usher were reportedly engaged in a bidding war to sign him to their respective music labels. The Canadian eventually chose Usher.

FanHouse spoke to Bieber at the 2009 USTA Arthur Ashe Kids Day in Flushing, N.Y., about his love for the Toronto Maple Leafs, why the Cleveland Cavaliers won't do well with Shaquille O'Neal, and the rumors that he is dating 19-year-old pop star, Taylor Swift. Check out the video interview below.

When FanHouse spoke to Will Ferrell at the 2009 USTA Arthur Ashe Kids Day on Saturday in Flushing, N.Y., we decided to ask him about some hot-button issues making sports headlines these days. I mean, who wouldn't want to know what Ferrell thinks about Brett Favre or Michael Vick returning to the NFL? Of course, we also discussed the decision to name freshman Matt Barkley the starting quarterback at his alma mater, USC.

Other topics discussed were whether Anchorman 2 will become a reality, his favorite sports broadcaster of all-time, and whatever happened to Pearl. Check out the full video interview below.