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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This is one I have not heard. Not even by blue-skying Lakers fantasists. LeBron James … to the Lakers? Yes. The Lakers. LeBron. LeBron to the Lakers, to play with Kobe. Beginning next season. Who says so? Sam Smith says so. And Sam Smith is one of the most highly regarded NBA writers in the […]

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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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This is one of those rules that Shouldn’t Have to Be Made. But when you’ve got self-important athletes unwilling to recognize common-sense boundaries … it’s amazing what you have to get down in black and white. The NBA has banned the use of Twitter and other “social media” during a period that extends from 45 […]

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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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Lamar Odom’s timing is bad. And not for the first time in his career. It now seems likely that a guy who was a vital cog in the Lakers’ championship run this spring not only will not get a raise … not only will not get some five- or six-year contract … he may be […]

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