As American economists and diplomats continue to speculate about the end of the recession, one global power has emerged from the difficult times a run...
In terms of the Wizards franchise and the goal of winning an NBA championship, this is exactly what the team needs. The team needs to be broken up and the front office needs to start from scratch yet again.
As hard as NBA Commissioner David Stern tries, and I honestly believe he's doing something about it but could be doing a lot more, the recent Gilbert ...
With less than a month to go before early voting opens, New Orleans mayoral candidate James Perry scored an endorsement from the NBA's Grant Hill, an All-Star with the Phoenix Suns.
A few weeks ago the finalists for the High School "Rudy" Awards were announced. They are a group of real life overachievers who deserve a bow.
Wall Street firms such as AIG, which received $90 billion in government funds, and sports teams such as the Dallas Cowboys, who received $325 million to build the Cowboys Stadium, have more in common than being run by white males.
Depending on which newspaper or blog you read, Carl Landry lost parts or all of up to five teeth when he and Nowitzki collided. But the teeth didn't land on the floor: they embedded themselves in Nowitzki's arm.
Time then moves ahead, and alas, our sporting President has moved on to bigger issues than pickup ball.
NBA Commissioner David Stern suggested last week that accepting legalized gambling as a part of the NBA product was a "possibility."
The truth is that the traditional currency of a player's value, the win, is fairly unimportant.
Major League Baseball appears to be hurting financially. The signs were there from the time we landed at the airport in Indianapolis, site of this year's Baseball Winter Meetings.
Caron Butler of the Washington Wizards might have corporate sponsors but understands when you're giving gifts you should do what the rest of us do, pa...
One of the great things that draws us to athletics, competing or even watching, is the surprise. Nancy Lieberman, 50 years old and a New York City native, has seemingly conquered every barrier ever presented to her.
The leadership in New Jersey needs to work with the talent they have available. They don't have to be world-beaters, just start with being competitive.
On Friday night, the New Jersey Nets finally won their first game of the season, defeating the Charlotte Bobcats 97-91 and ending an NBA-record-settin...
In my work with athletes, I've been able to identify the five most important psychological qualities that distinguish the Wayne Gretzkys and the Candace Parkers from the rest of us.
After an 0-16 start it was good news this weekend that the Nets fired coach Lawrence Frank. That did not change the team overnight, as the Nets notched another loss.
With a new coach and a new stable of trigger happy, deadly accurate long ball snipers who know their role and fill it splendidly the Suns are back to where they once were.
The more transcendent the father, the more average the son, it seems. Below, we'll compare the college averages of the paterfamilias to the accrued stats of the offspring.
The NBA season is less than 4 weeks old but analyzing the play by play data from each game enables us to obtain many interesting insights.
Using fairly sophisticated mathematical techniques, we can now find ratings for players and lineup combinations that best explain the movement of the scores in each NBA game.
