LeBron James and the Top Five Pop Culture Breakups Ever

Ah, take a deep breath folks, we survived the trauma and tension that was the LeBron James "Decision". Well, those of us outside of Cleveland that is. So now that MeBron has held his hour long part non-regretful goodbye, part PR stunt (see shameless Boys and Girls club pandering to save face), we can all just move on and get back to believing the dream that sports are about loyalty, teamwork and respect.

No? Okay, how about we just list the top five greatest sports and entertainment break-ups of all time...

In no particular order, as they are all equally groan inducing in their own ways:

• The War of the Roses - Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner showed us all in this classic break-up film just how quickly love could turn to apathy and then pure unadulterated hate.


• Suzanne Somers and the Producers of Three's Company - Yeah, I'm dating myself, but this one was so messy it almost kneecapped a top show in its prime. She said, he said was flying around with the future of the show in jeopardy. Luckily, the producers were able to replace the role of ditzy roommate with another string of equally talented (talentless?) blondes and the show went on to continued ratings success. Suzanne Somers went on to Thigh Master infomercial fame. Three's Company - 1, Suzanne - 0.


• Disney and Michael Eisner vs. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Dreamworks - With Eisner dishing out comments like "I think I hate the little midget" and Katzenberg suing Disney for unpaid millions ($500 million to be exact) from his time working there, this was a nasty, dirty feud between two megapowers of family entertainment.


• John and Lorena Bobbitt - Proving that sometimes enough is enough. John found out the hard way, no pun intended, that love can indeed be a four-letter word. And that word is SNIP! 'Nuff said.


• Lebron James leaves Cleveland - Sure the fans are upset. They've been burning the fake-King's jerseys since about 9:10pm EST last night. Words like betrayal, narcissistic, coward and traitor are all being thrown around in the wake of James' decision to join Chris Bosh and D-Wade on the Miami Heat. And those words are also being echoed by jilted Cavalier's majority owner Dan Gilbert. It started with Gilbert's letter to the fans basically ripping LeBron for leaving, in which he stated that, among other scathing bits of verbiage,

  "This shocking act of disloyalty from our home grown "chosen one" sends the exact opposite lesson of what we would want our children to learn. And "who" we would want them to grow-up to become."

  Ouch! He didn't stop there, telling the Associated Press that LeBron quit in the playoffs against Boston and even reduced the price of the LeBron Fathead (Fathead.com being owned by Gilbert) from $49.99 to the Clearance price of $17.41, the date Benedict Arnold was born. I guess you can't go home again.


• Honorable mention to my breakup with Cindy Banks in the 3rd grade. It was rough, but I had to let you go.

So what are your top pop-culture breakup stories? Let us know in the comments section below.