These Are a Few of My Favorite Sports
Toward the end of this year’s NCAA basketball tournaments, there were too many sports going on for me to keep up. College basketball was crowning its champions, while Major League […]
Kyrie Irving’s Role in the NBA Trade of the Century
Saturday night, February 1st, delivered an all-time shocker to the NBA universe. The Los Angeles Lakers, the most glitzy big brand in basketball and arguably the greatest franchise in league […]
Who Will Win the NBA Cup?
Now that LeBron James and the L.A. Lakers are out of the way, we can see how basketball fans really feel about the NBA Cup, formerly known as the In-Season […]
NBA Preview: 15 Players Who Will Define the 2024-25 Season
Opening Night of the 2024-25 NBA season will be one for the history books. That’s when the league’s career scoring leader, 22-year veteran LeBron James, is expected to share the […]
Muslim Athletes Recognized at ESPY Awards
The sports world — at least a superstar-studded section of it — convened in Los Angeles on July 11 for the 2024 ESPY Awards, the show that was created to […]
The Reset, Revisited: An NBA Season of Change
The how and why of sports fandom is consistently fascinating to me. Probably because, as a longtime (now former) Cleveland Browns fan who isn’t from Cleveland and hung with that […]
‘Lefty Kobe’ denied chance at 2024 Paris Olympics
Last summer, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson took the basketball world by storm with a game — and a face — that eerily resembled the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant. This summer, the […]
Brown wins Finals MVP, Celtics claim historic NBA title
Jaylen Brown took what was supposed to be the legacy-making, critic-silencing, championship-winning storybook of his teammate Jayson Tatum, and turned it into his own redemption song. On Monday, the Boston […]
Is Tanking in Sports Morally Wrong?
I’m writing this a few hours before the NFL draft, where bad teams (on the field) can become good (on paper) over the course of a weekend. The NBA and […]
2024 NBA Playoffs: 10 Rookies to Watch
With a few spectacular exceptions, NBA rookies are usually an afterthought by the time the league calendar turns to the playoffs. For every Magic Johnson (NBA Finals MVP as a […]
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