Yao Ming rocking the China vote. People starting who can’t play. The hype for the NBA All Star Game has been…odd, to say the least. And now, honestly, we have NO reason to watch it, because Kobe Bryant isn’t playing, and neither is Alan Iverson.
Kobe isn’t a surprise–he hasn’t played in [...]

Yao Ming is the ultimate will he or won’t he of the NBA.  Meant to be the bedrock of the Rockets’ playoff team, he’s instead faced the same injury so many big men do: bad feet.  They’re just not meant to hold quite that amount of person on them, no matter how big they are.
His [...]

NBA free agent Allen Iverson tweets that his agent is fielding an offer from Memphis.  The veteran Iverson found himself without a job, and we were surprised no team snapped him up for his presence if nothing else. We’re a big proponent, in case you haven’t noticed, of veteran building blocks on teams full of [...]

Michael Beasley played one season at Kansas State, and then entered the NBA draft.  Drafted by the Miami Heat, he ran into problems right away. Not basketball problems, since his talent is undeniable.  First, he got kicked out of the rookie orientation program due to an unfortunate marijuana in hotel room incident, but still managed [...]

So, we guess we picked a bad time to start this blog.
We’re fascinated by the immediacy that the 24 hour news cycle and the advent of the internet have brought to the world of sports reporting.   (Except when our twitter feed refreshes faster than our MLB GameDay and we find out that in fact someone [...]

Recently, SoCal beachgoers might have noticed something out of the ordinary in their sky.  A plane flying a banner that said “Reggie Miller Stop Pursuing Married Women.”  This mysterious (and mysteriously unpunctuated!) missive was the work, apparently, of Alexander Von Furstenberg.
Son of fashion goddess Diane, Alexander is apparently convinced that Reggie Miller’s got the hots [...]

One of the things we like most about pro-spor ts culture is the  culture of giving that seems to go with it.  Of course, these athletes make more money than most of our reaaders will see in a lifetime, but there are plenty of movie stars and others who make a ton of money and [...]

LeBron James will go play in New York.
There have been rumors to this effect for ages, mostly fueled by the fact that LeBron James and CC Sabathia,Yankees hurler, are close friends dating back to CC’s days in Cleveland.  Since Sabathia signed in the off-season with New York, there has been a lot of speculation that [...]

When we’re not watching painful baseball beatdowns, we love this job, because we get to write about things we never thought we’d get to.
This evening, members of the Tribe….no, not that Tribe…will go to synagogues all over America.  The luckiest of them will even perhaps run into UPH.
The rest of them, however, can still be [...]