Pistons Win Game, Iverson’S Respect
On a night when LeBron James sat near the Detroit bench – two earrings, one pair of shades, one shirttail hanging from his sweater – and Chuck Daly sat a few feet away – one blazer, one silk necktie, one full head of hair – you could argue that the Pistons were surrounded by the future and the past. But this night was about the present. And the present was tense.
Selig’S Proposal Connects With Me
When Bud Selig was a kid growing up on the west side of Milwaukee, he didn’t use drugs. He didn’t know much about them. They were for the “bad” kids and he was a “good” kid. He didn’t drink, he didn’t take pills, and to this day, he says, he has never let a cigarette touch his lips.
BETTER LATE ’SHEED SAVES SHOW FOR OT
PHILADELPHIA – So let’s be honest. He wasn’t there much of the game. He wasn’t his normal aggressive self. He wasn’t making shots or snagging rebounds. He wasn’t even screaming at the refs. At one point, his coach had to chide him...
EVEN THE DARK TIMES BRING ENLIGHTENMENT
I try not to bother God too often, but I do sometimes ask Him for grace, to lend me some when I need to display it. I admit to asking now.The last three weeks have been the darkest yet most enlightening of my professional life. The dark part is obvious. I made a...
I OWE YOU AN APOLOGY FOR SUNDAY’S COLUMN: HERE IT IS
To our readers: I made an assumption in a column this past weekend. It was a bad move. In a column written Friday for our Sunday newspaper, I assumed that what I had been told by Mateen Cleaves and Jason Richardson had indeed happened, that they had indeed flown to...
DREAM DENIED
INDIANAPOLIS – The mountaintop was in their sights – and then the oxygen ran out. Suddenly, everything the Spartans women tried to do felt labored, out of step, passes too short, shots too hard, defense too slow. Their normal driving heartbeat was an...
WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME IN DETROIT
There were sunny days before, but they didn’t count until Monday. There were baseball swings last month, but they didn’t matter until now. Opening Day in Detroit is when you stand against the wall with a marker, a confirmation that you’ve lived...
IZZO LETS ‘ER RIP
ST. LOUIS – His staff wanted him to stop. They interrupted his impromptu media gathering with “Last question, guys” or “We’ve gotta stop, guys.” But Tom Izzo wouldn’t stop. He talked and talked. It was late Saturday night,...
LONGING FOR ANOTHER SLICE OF DORM PIZZA
ST. LOUIS – In the audience Saturday at the Final Four, among the 46,000 hoop junkies, sales executives, movie producers, parents, contest winners, beer guzzlers, hip-hop stars and lucky locals who knew somebody who knew somebody, there were two former stars for...Stay Connected
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