Fan Perspective: Chicago Sky’s Offseason Moves Look to Make Them Winners (Yahoo! Contributor Network) The National Basketball Association (NBA) got off to a slow start this year. The bickering that went on cost the fans a lot of heartache and the teams a lot of money. Will they pay a price? So far they seem [...]
Video: Jared Dudley dives for loose ball, absolutely destroys Phoenix Suns vice chairman EDITOR’S NOTE: We missed this gem during Sunday’s Suns/Kings tilt, but when we saw it, we loved it. And we love you. So we share it now. “OK, Jared, we’re going to use something called a ‘compliment sandwich’ here. We feel it [...]
Temple in talks to join Big East (AP) PHILADELPHIA (AP)—A person familiar with the talks says Temple is in negotiations with the Big East about joining the conference in all sports next season. The person spoke Wednesday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the talks are still ongoing. Temple played in the [...]
Correction: US Assistants story (PA SportsTicker) In a Jan. 20 story on the U.S. women’s basketball assistant coaches, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Pat Summitt won a gold medal as both a player and coach. Summitt won a silver medal as a player in 1976 and gold as a coach in 1984. Tags: basketball, [...]
NBA won’t approve Paul trade to Lakers (AP) NEW ORLEANS (AP)—The NBA, owners of the New Orleans Hornets, refused Thursday to approve a three-team trade that would have sent Hornets All-Star guard Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers. “It’s not true that the owners killed the deal, the deal was never discussed at the [...]
Michael Jordan’s new steakhouse has at least one rave review I’ve never been to Chicago, but everything I’ve heard suggests that it has as many steakhouses as my native San Francisco has coffee shops. It didn’t get called the City of Big Shoulders by accident — they had to eat a lot of red meat [...]
Kendrick Perkins had himself a Texas-sized weekend Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins(notes) apparently had a few rough nights out — both with and without Milwaukee Bucks wing Stephen Jackson(notes) last week. It appears as if a basketball camp was canceled, because Perk had a bit too much fun. And it also appears as if [...]
Dennis Rodman, Hall of Famer Quite a bit has been written about Dennis Rodman over the last five months, particularly in the wake of his jersey retirement ceremony up in Detroit last April, and Friday’s induction of The Worm into the Basketball Hall of Fame. With helicopters and Howard Stern and that noted wild man [...]
Who are the best to never grab a championship ring? The series isn’t over yet. In fact as we look forward to Sunday’s Game 2, the 2011 NBA Finals offer an intriguing possibility that seemed completely far-fetched after Miami’s win in Game 1 earlier this week. Dallas, suddenly, has the home court advantage. And while [...]
Delany feels differently about Buckeyes (AP) Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany believes he might have acted differently toward five Ohio State players who were allowed to play in the Sugar Bowl despite NCAA violations had he known the information that has since been uncovered. The players were permitted to wait until this fall to begin [...]
