The Nets, who are moving to Brooklyn next year, tried to acquire the hulking Orlando Magic center. But Howard is sticking around Florida. Will the Brooklyn team be a bummer?
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Sports Music: The Hoosiers v. Rudy Goosebumps Meter
I know Hoosiers, the classic 1986 movie about a tiny Indiana high school hoops team that makes in improbable run to the state title, isn’t about college basketball. But around the start of March Madness every year, I either rewatch the film – run the picket fence, fellas – or at least listen to the Oscar-nominated score, for a little …
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For Your March Madness Fix: Classic College Hoops Photos From LIFE
If you love hoops, you’ll love these, from LIFE.com.
How to Seem Smart When Talking About NFL Free Agency
Your friends are talking about it. That cousin who always invites you to his lame fantasy football draft parties won’t shut up about it. The new boss at work, the one who thinks you’re a jock so you nod knowingly when he bemoans …
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NCAA Tournament Tipoff: The Confounding Case of Syracuse Hoops
Syracuse finished its regular season with the best record in school history. But distractions, and the suspension of starting center Fab Melo, may derail the Orangemen.
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D’Antoni’s Resignation: Another Stain for the Knicks
The New York Knicks are back to their dysfunctional ways, as the team’s coach resigns after clashing with his star player, Carmelo Anthony
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Hate Duke? Catching Up With the Man Who Got Stomped by Christian Laettner
In the greatest game in college hoops history, Kentucky’s Aminu Timberlake was the victim of a famous cheap shot. Hey Laettner, how about an apology?
Obama’s NCAA Basketball Bracket: Predictable and Pandering
Like your poker winnings and fantasy teams, nobody cares about your NCAA basketball tournament bracket. Unless you are the President of the United States. Barack Obama has a squad of professional scribes devoted to tracking his …
March Madness Game Helps Strengthen Anglo-American Bond
Boys will be boys: there’s nothing like a little international diplomacy served up amid layups and three-pointers. President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron were on hand at Tuesday evening’s March Madness …
Taking a Dive: Is Great British Hope Tom Daley Set for an Unsuccessful Olympic Games?
Why hasn’t Daley harnessed his obvious abilities as a springboard to predicted success this summer?
Big Swindle Leaves Legendary Soccer Team Struggling to Stay Afloat
And now the score from the Sports Crime League:
- Irving Picard $83 million, Mets $0
- HM Revenue & Customs $24 million, Glasgow Rangers, $0
- U.S. Attorney 13, R. Allen Stanford, 1
As the New York Mets sun themselves at …
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Studying Jeremy Lin’s Rough New Reality
The New York Knicks point guard wasn’t going to keep on winning, and setting scoring records. But we never expected 0-6 for March either.
Can Kentucky’s Revolving Door of Freshmen Win a National Title?
Kentucky men’s basketball program is forever young. You could say that about any college team, but none more so than Kentucky. Every year, coach John Calipari brings in a new crop of super-freshmen. And almost every year, those …
