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NBA Playoffs: Why Lakers-Thunder Is the Series To Watch
Kobe vs. Kevin, World Peace-James Harden Rematch: OKC-LA Has It All
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It’s Official: Linsanity Is for Real
With a big win against the Los Angeles Lakers Friday night, Jeremy Lin continues to wow crowds and stun announcers.
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The Dream Team Gets Dreamier: Team USA Adds Blake Griffin to Olympic Pool
The 20-player group will be narrowed down to a final dozen by June. Which NBA stars will get cut?
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Shaq Calls It Quits: A Retrospective on the Big Aristotle
Until the very end, he was nothing but Shaq.
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Bulls Player Joakim Noah Yells a Gay Slur
On Sunday night, the TNT cameras caught Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah exchanging words with someone — presumably a Miami Heat fan — while he was sitting on the bench, during the first quarter of Game 3 of the Eastern …
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Cheap Shots and Fouls: How The Lakers Went Down in Shame
There will be a new NBA champion this season. Too bad the old one went out like a loser.
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Bieber, Bryant, ‘Melo’-Drama Rule NBA’s All-Star Weekend
Though the NBA’s All-Star weekend isn’t the cultural happening it used to be — sorry, I can’t get too geeked up to see JaVale McGee in the dunk contest, although his dunk of two balls into different baskets was pretty nifty — …
The World Cup Nears — What Will the Future Write?
Over 12 million people have watched Nike’s epic World Cup ad on YouTube, and for good reason. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, an Oscar nominee for the 2006 film Babel, the commercial is a spectacular paean to the world’s game, whirring from a sultry night in West Africa to visions of monumental triumph in an Iberian square. …
