Almost 11 months ago I did a blog post that generated as much hate mail as anything I’ve written at this address. Vile stuff. Unprintable. I posted eight comments, but another 20-plus I did not. Not because I didn’t like the criticism (I read them all), but because I didn’t feel like redacting the vulgarities. […]

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The day after The Decision, that contemporary monument to bad ideas (New Coke, anyone?), I offered to write a commentary/analysis on LeBron James’s decision to commit to Miami and abandon Cleveland. I ended up trashing LeBron and The Decision … in a column I linked to a few days ago.  But before I realized I […]

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I couldn’t help myself. I was going to approach this as a commentary, a think piece. I spent an hour researching other three-player groupings of stars in NBA history … making charts and compiling stax … my explanatory-journalism approach to LeBron James and the Miami Heat fiasco … and then I just went off, instead. […]

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Some people can’t pass a mirror without taking a glance. Some of us like to look at old photos, when we were younger and other people were still around. Those are big topics. This is a small pleasure that I would like to share with you. A look back.

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I was up at the crack of dawn to follow Game 7 of the Lakers and Celtics … and as you all know … it was scary for quite some time before Derek Fisher his the three that tied it at 64-64, and after that didn’t most Lakers fans have a sense that Kobe & […]

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I celebrated, two weeks ago, while traveling in Italy, the fact that I would not be able to see the Lakers and Celtics on live television in the NBA Finals. Because 1) it would agitate me and 2) these things usually end so badly for the Lakers. That does not mean I haven’t kept close […]

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Great day … I am back in sports journalism. I have transferred from the news desk at The National, here in Abu Dhabi, to the sports department. And so far it’s been rather like going home again. Even if “home” now includes quite a lot of cricket and rugby for what is, at heart, a […]

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As we mentioned earlier, it’s a good thing we’re not watching the NBA Finals live. Too stressful. Anyway, it starts at about 3 a.m. local time, and that’s late, even on vacation. However, we have one observation about Game 2 that may be some encouragement for glum Lakers fans: And it is: 11-for-16. That is […]

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Thank goodness I won’t be able to see the Lakers and Celtics. Not that I don’t care. Oh, on the contrary. I care scads. Tons. Oodles. It’s just that I come from that generation of Lakers fans/followers who remember the 1960s … and far too well, when it comes to the Lakers and Celtics. Does […]

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Just did the math. Twenty-four hours ago I was in the middle of a copy-editing shift in the office of The National in Abu Dhabi. Now, I am sitting on the patio of L’Oasi Hotel, watching the gentle sun angling slowly below the horizon … just outside the city of Rome. As in Italy. The […]

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