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Bill Russell, the NBA legend, is dead Bill Russell died on Sunday. Athletes in all sports are racing to pay tribute. And they’re all tweeting about the great example Russell set off the court. He took part in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was seated in the front row of the crowd… Read more.
Episode 32: You Need to Build Your Own Super (Home) Team to Be Like Mike… Related commentaries: LeBron and KD… Listen.
Last night’s premiere of The Last Dance was easily the most interesting and entertaining two hours of sports TV I’ve seen in decades. Granted, my taste might be a little off. After all, it was the first new thing in the wide world of sports since the worldwide lockdown five weeks ago. Therefore, this was… Read more.
It just so happens that I telegraphed the end to Kobe Bryant’s career two years ago: I have no doubt that Kobe will return next season, from what should have been a career-ending tear of his Achilles tendon last month. But I fear he will fail in his quest to tie or surpass Michael’s tally… Read more.
Michael Jordan is the only Black majority owner in the NBA. He owns the Charlotte Bobcats. As entertaining as I found him as a player, however, I held nothing but contempt for Michael as a person. Not least because his refusal to speak out on racial issues of the day suggested a craven willingness to… Read more.
Michael Phelps made quite a show of declaring his intent to retire after the 2012 London Olympics. Here, for example, is a definitive exchange he had with Anderson Cooper on the May 8, 2012 edition of 60 Minutes, the most widely watched news program in the United States: Cooper: What happens if your mom, you… Read more.
Phil Jackson is creating quite a buzz in NBA circles these days with his flirtation about returning to the sidelines next season as coach of the New York Knicks. All indications are that he will. But he created an even bigger buzz last year with his comparison between Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant as players.… Read more.
You could be forgiven for thinking there’s merit in Phil Jackson, the most successful coach in NBA history, comparing Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant as Basketball players. But such comparisons are good for nothing more than stirring up argument among friends, preferably at a neighborhood sports bar. For, as Kobe shrewdly tweeted on May 17, 2013 in response… Read more.
If I’m not mistaken, Vanity Fair is the first mainstream publication to name Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley as the philandering role models who led Tiger astray. Here’s what it reports in this respect – as a sidebar on a multi-page spread of his mistresses – in this month’s issue: When Tiger showed up in Vegas, he was… Read more.
