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Ted Green's post for the Los Angeles Times sports blog called Your Guide to Hating the Celtics said of Paul Pierce, "By the way, Pierce's idea of a fun night is going clubbing and getting stabbed. Good times!" Well, it used to say that. In 2000 Pierce was stabbed 11 times in the face, neck and back at a Boston club and had surgery on his lungs; his assailants were sent to prison. "Lakers fans and Celtics fans don't agree on much, but they'll all likely find common ground in believing that a Los Angeles Times columnist crossed the line by making jokes about the night Paul Pierce was stabbed," says Michael Hurley of New England Sports Network. The Times has since removed the line with an editor's note: "That comment should not have been published and has been removed." Green, the former LAT columnist, is senior sports producer at KTLA Channel 5. Pierce, by the way, starred for Inglewood High School before going to Kansas.
* Noted: KTLA is still running Green's original line. KTLA, Fishbowl LA
Also: Variety columnist Brian Lowry has added a column gig with FoxSports.com and kicks off with a tribute to the memory of Chick Hearn.