CAVASTROPHIC
CLEVELAND – As the pass came loping into Rasheed Wallace, over his shoulder flew LeBron James. He took the ball, and the last smidgeon of Detroit hope, and stole down the court with all of it, up to the hoop, off the glass, and into the Finals.’Bron...
LOOKING FOR NEWS IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES
So what next? We post sportswriters in hotel lobbies? We assign columnists to the strip club beat?What next? After two New York City newspapers repeatedly put photos of Yankee Alex Rodriguez and a blonde companion on their front pages last week, an invisible wall was...
PISTONS’ LEGACY ALSO ON THE LINE TONIGHT
No more words. Words do not put the ball in the basket.No more vows. Vows are only good until they’re broken – and too much about this team is broken already.The Pistons have explained ad nauseam how they win, how they never really lose, how they’re...
CROWN ‘EM? PISTONS’ SEASON ON LEBRINK ONCE AGAIN
By the end, both teams were slogging it out like two exhausted fighters on a hot summer night. The Pistons threw the ball into whoever raised an arm for it, and they watched that player back in, alone, the rest of them seeming to pray a shot would fall. On the other...
ROYAL DEMEANOR
Tayshaun Prince is telling me about the first date he had with a particular woman. This was back in college at Kentucky. They went to the movies.What movie, I ask?”You’re not going to believe it.”What movie?”I really didn’t want to watch...
BETTER THAN CAKE, CANDLES OR GIFT WRAP
It was always about presents. That’s the thing I most remember. You started thinking about your birthday weeks in advance, mostly through the eyes of “What am I gonna get?”One year it was a magic trick. One year it was an Etch A Sketch. One year a...
Pistons 79, Cavs 76 | Deja Two!
And after all that, after the crazy second quarter, the crazy third quarter, the emergence of a bench star, the circus shot by Rasheed Wallace for the lead, after all that, here we were again, LeBron James out top, with a decision to make, the game in his hands.
And here he came, down the lane.
In Game 1 at the Palace, he dished the ball to Donyell Marshall, who missed a three-pointer, and a rainstorm of criticism came down on LeBron’s head. Why’d you pass? You’re the best in the league – shoot it!
SHOULD HASEK RETURN? IT’S MIND OVER GROIN
This is Dominik Hasek’s brain: “I can come back.”This is Dominik Hasek’s groin: “Are you nuts?”This is Dominik Hasek’s wallet: “We could use some fattening.”This is Dominik Hasek’s groin: “I’m...
Plucked
ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Ducks were down a man and still scored. They had a power play coming and scored without needing it. Dominik Hasek came out unusually high; the puck dribbled through him. Hasek sprawled flat; three pucks went behind him.
Like dripping ice, like descending smog, there was karma all over the building Tuesday night – and still the Red Wings almost shook it off, they fought to the choking finish. But in the end, it was covered in feathers and it spoke with a beak. And by the time the sun set here in the West, it had already gone down on Detroit.
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