I know you won’t listen to me, but will you listen to nationally-known sportswriter John Feinstein and fix your damned game? Lookit. The shot clock should be the same at all levels of the game above high school. That would make it simpler for the fans, the players, the coaches and the broadcasters. Right now …
I don’t ordinarily pay much attention to the NBA, but the news today that LeBron James has decided to return to Cleveland to play for his hometown (and first professional) team was unavoidable. I admit to being astonished. It’s not often a superstar leaves the place where he’s had the most success (James won two …
I’m not much of an NBA fan, but it’s hard not to admire a team which was so disappointed in its performance last year that it redoubled its efforts to win the championship and then did so. In five games. Against the defending champs, the team that had frustrated them last year. The Spurs have …
But how about forcing him to sell the team? There’s the rub. Silver has also recommended that NBA owners effectively force Sterling to sell the Clippers. The NBA has a procedure in place for this extraordinary action, but the procedure contains enough ambiguity that debate among owners is likely. Under article 13 of the league’s …
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This time it’s about race, not about the plot of the lower class to take his money. The LA Clippers NBA team has an owner named Donald Sterling, and he’s a sleazy fat old slumlord of a man. That in itself is distasteful but not worth discussing. However, the other day he sounded off to …
Well, hell. Just a second or two short of a win. Instead, a one-point loss by the U of Arizona Wildcats to the Wisconsin Badgers. There is no joy in Tucson. Or here.
Curse you, Kentucky Wildcats! Oh well. All of my four Final Four players are still in the running. Arizona, Florida, Michigan and Michigan State still have hurdles to jump, but so far I’ve bet right (with no money on the line, I assure you).
Got my nerves frayed a little bit watching the Sweet Sixteen game between Arizona and San Diego State this evening. UA didn’t take the lead until about the four-minute mark of the second half, and it was still nip-and-tuck down to the final moments. They did pull it out, however, and now they face the …
Creighton picked a horrible time to forget how to shoot baskets. It was shooting 33% after the first ten minutes, and it finally got up to 40% with 2:57 left in the game, by which time it was down by 28 points. Kansas let the loss of big man Joel Embiid keep them out of …
Stanford? Memphis? MERCED???? Stanford over New Mexico, sure. Memphis over George Washington U, fine. But I doubt that even Merced alums picked their team to beat Duke. My consolation is that I’m still better than 97.7 of everybody else who submitted a bracket to ESPN. I heard that of the 11 million brackets submitted to …