During this year’s playoffs, Dirk Nowitzki has stepped his game up to another level. Now Dirk aggressively drives to the whole with authority looking for contact unlike in years past. That new style helped him and the Mavs barrel through LeMarcus Aldridge and the Blazers , Pau GaSoft and the Lakers, and then Kevin Durant and the [...]
Someone should have reminded Scottie Pippen to never bite the hand that fed you. Scottie has been in plenty playoff battles with Michael “Air” Jordan to know that he is unquestionably “The Greatest,” but you wouldn’t know that based on his comments on ESPN Radio. Mike put Scottie in a great position to be recognized [...]
Arizona Cardinals running back Beanie Wells, who played under Jim Tressel at Ohio State, strongly believes Tressel had good intentions when he covered up for his student-athletes. Wells expressed his displeasure towards the Ohio State football scandal via Twitter in a succession of tweets: “Twitter word! U have to excuse me for a sec cuz I’m about to step [...]
When the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks begin to battle it out for the Larry O’Brien trophy, mostly all players involved will be going after their first NBA championship. Most notably, Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James will be looking to exercise some Finals demons from their respective losses in the NBA’s final round. In [...]
Former NBA official, Tim Donaghy, the guy whom back in 2007 resigned because he gambled on NBA games he officiated, has re-surfaced in the headlines. And he seems to think he’s got some credibility. Now he’s criticizing the officiating in these playoffs. He had the nerve to critize a non-call by an NBA official during Game 4 of the [...]
This could be an impossible trivia question 5 years from now: Who scored 35 points to lead the Miami Heat to an NBA Finals home-court clinching win over the Raptors? If you guessed Eddie House, and you probably didn’t, your’re right. The big three that earned the Miami Heat Game 1 of the 2011 NBA Finals in [...]
Former head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers in the late 80′s and early 90′s, Rick Adelman, is interested in their vacant General Manager position. Adelman, who coached the Houston Rockets last season, was just a candidate for the L.A. Lakers head coaching position before they agreed to a deal with Mike Brown, but Adelman [...]
In the aftermath of Jim Tressel’s resignation from Ohio State, Terrelle Pryor needs to decide if he should follow in his former coach’s footsteps. The NCAA is currently in the process of investigating Pryor and some more illegal benefits he may have received. We know Pryor and some other Ohio State players traded their jerseys and memorabilia for tattoos and spending money, but Pryor [...]
It looks like the New York Knicks aren’t going to let Donnie Walsh walk away from an unfinished job after all. After the man spent a couple of seasons rebuilding this Knick team, there were rumblings that they would let him walk. Instead, Walsh will have a chance to return to the Knicks front office [...]
Orlando Magic superstar center Dwight Howard is heading into the final year of his contract with the Magic in the 2011-12 NBA season and the unanswered question still is where will he play in 2012? During a Memorial Day cookout held by Dwight at Bill Frederick Park at Turkey Lake yesterday May 30th, Howard expressed a [...]
With the NBA Finals set to get under way between the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks tonight, let’s re-visit the conference finals one more time. Below you’ll find the top 10 plays of the East and West Conference Finals including monster facials by Taj Gibsion of the Bulls and Kevin Durant of the Thunder. Check [...]
During an interview with the New York Times this past Saturday (May 28), Suns’ point guard Steve Nash was asked “Is the N.B.A. ready for an openly gay player?” to which he responded: If a player in the locker room came out, it would come and go quickly, too. I really don’t think it’s a big [...]
