As I write this, many of the people I know back in the States are watching the Lakers play the Celtics. In Boston. If I were on that side of the Atlantic, I would be watching too. I grew up watching that rivalry, and suffering through it. Jerry West, Chick Hearn and I … well, […]

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I want to know. Really. A lot of you have been watching Derek Fisher. Do the Lakers look like they’re playing 4-on-5 when D-Fish is in the game? Does he look like a bench coach who somebody let suit up, for the heck of it? Is there a point guard in the league he can […]

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If you’re a Lakers fan and you’re not worried about Kobe Bryant … you ought to be. Not because of the way he is performing. Of course not. He’s as good as ever. Three buzzer-beating shots for victories already this season. Which is more than any other team has. A scoring average of 30.6 points […]

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It was a more eventful decade than my initial thoughts indicated. “Wow. I have to come up with 10 good sports events from the 0-somethings? I’m not sure I can do that.” Turns out, a few minutes of cross-referencing years and sports, and it’s no problem finding 10. The trick is limiting it to that […]

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Mostly, I just wanted to see how many “categories” I could have at the top of this item. Now let’s see if I actually mention something about all of them. Some interesting topics playing out in U.S. sports right now and, really, I’m aware of them. Not everyone back home seems to remember we do, […]

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The Ron Artest Experiment is off to a rocky start. Think in terms of Professor Phil Jackson holding vials of unstable substances … and it they have blown up in his face, and his hair is all Einstein-like … as if he were drawn by the guys at Warner Brothers cartoons. After two games, neither […]

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Jiminy Christmas. It wasn’t enough for the Lakers to be about Kobe and Vanessa Bryant, Phil Jackson and Jeanie Buss, and Ron Artest and whomever/whatever … Now they have Lamar Odom and Mrs.  Lamar Odom — reality show “star” Khloe Kardashian. Odom and Kardashian got married today, apparently one month after they met. And a […]

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Weird moment this week in the first episode of a new ABC series, entitled “Flash Forward.” It’s a semi-opaque, high-production-values “Lost”-like show with apparent layers of mystery, etc., revolving around everyone on the planet losing consciousness at the same time, and being out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. And during that blackout period … […]

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A curious wire story out of San Diego pertaining to Ron Artest. Which probably shouldn’t surprise anyone, because “curious” and “Ron Artest” are terms that generate 17,200 hits when paired in a google search. It’s almost “dog bites man” in terms of routine. Artest was in San Diego to help promote the Lakers’ exhibition game […]

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Well, this is good news for the Lakers, as well as Lakers fan. The on-again/off-again negotiations with Lamar Odom, the team’s free-agent forward, apparently are over, and he will stay with the club in a four-year deal potentially worth $33 million — if the Lakers pick up the fourth year, worth $6 million. This means […]

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