Basketball
[Basketball Season Roundup] Durant vs. LeBron. The best team beat the best player. Photo. Erik Drost-Flickr.
It is hard to say which offseason chatter would have been more deafening, Golden...
It seems as though we blinked and found ourselves right back in the same seat, watching the same movie. For the record, I had to be convinced that we hadn’t already seen this show…several decades...
Several years ago I had the good fortune of planning a trip to Bermuda. One of the many great things about residing in the Baltimore-DC Metro area is that airports are no more than a hop, skip...
On Saturday, May 13th, 2017 HARON HARGRAVE will host his 3rd Annual BALLIN 4 PEACE event in Queens, N.Y. at Corona's legendary...
Webster’s defines redeem as “to get or win back” thus, redemption is defined as “the act, process, or an instance of redeeming”. The latter had been the underlying theme of the NCAA Tourney as...
How about this scenario to round out Women’s History Month? The trivia question…..In 1984, who was the first woman to appear on the cover of a Wheaties Box. Mary Lou Retton was the answer…yet it...
Will North Carolina win it all?
[Sports]
Two weeks of shocking upsets, ugly blowouts, and intense college hoops action will culminate in...
There’s probably no better time than now….with the maddening weather many of us are experiencing----Miami to Montreal temps in a blink of an eye…..to usher in the tournament we know and love—at...
It took only a few days before I mustered up a sincere congratulatory remark to a Patriots fan on the a-maz-ing Super Bowl comeback win! He’s a trivia teammate, Boston native, and I’m guessing by...
Oakley has seen much better days.
Wednesday’s arrest of Charles Oakley is another ominous example that serious trouble is engulfing this Knicks organization that...
There’s nothing new about our nation’s capital being the epicenter of current events. Of the most recent, I took part in the one with a diverse, massive…some would even say huuuuggee, crowd. It...
As a new year is ushered in, a plethora of resolutions joins it. In that tradition, I’ve declared 2017 as my year of Acceptance. On that note, I’ve accepted:
· George Karl is not...
One thing is certain, time waits for no man! We now find ourselves in the midst of the 2016 holiday season. And what would the holidays be if acknowledgement wasn’t given to the things for which...
Two things I enjoy most: sports & politics. Although they may sound like polar opposites, it is truly remarkable how often they intersect:
A high premium is placed on a candidate’s...
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