NBA Commissioner David Stern’s announcement on Monday that the first two weeks of the 2011-12 NBA season have been canceled broke the hearts of NBA fans throughout the nation, even President Barack Obama. While attending a fundraiser on Tuesday with Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard, Obama revealed that he’s ”a little heartbroken” by the ongoing NBA lockout. The [...]
Stephen Colbert is out with a new advertisement focused on the ongoing NBA lockout. Colbert, who recently won approval from the Federal Election Commission to set up his Colbert Super PAC, used the newly-formed organization to jokingly throw his support behind the NBA owners in the league’s labor dispute. In the ad, entitled “Foul Balls,” Colbert paints a [...]
ATLANTA — Seimone Augustus and the Minnesota Lynx turned up the defensive pressure on Angel McCoughtry and the Atlanta Dream. The result was the final entry in a near-perfect postseason as the Lynx beat the Dream 73-67 on Friday night to complete a three-game sweep of the WNBA championship series. Augustus had 16 points and [...]
ROME — Kobe Bryant has been offered a $6.7 million, one-season contract to play for the Italian team Virtus Bologna, appealing to his childhood memories of growing up in the country. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar spent part of his youth in Italy while his father played there. He speaks Italian, prompting Bologna to hope [...]
NEW YORK — The NBA and its referees approved a new five-year deal Thursday, just two years after a contract dispute nearly caused the league to open the season with replacements. A person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that the referees voted on the deal last week. The person spoke to the [...]
NEW YORK — The long looks on players’ faces and the anger in Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver’s voice made it obvious: There was no progress Tuesday in talks to end the NBA lockout. And with less than three weeks until training camps, the latest setback may be a tough one. “I think coming out of [...]
With the retirement of Shaquille O’Neal and the seeming inability of LeBron James to ascend to the throne, there is little doubt that Kobe Bryant remains the alpha male of the NBA. Active players in their mid- to early-20s didn’t grow up wanting to “be like Mike” as their veteran teammates did. They grew up wanting to [...]
TULSA, Okla. — Candace Parker’s big second half sent the Tulsa Shock to the longest losing streak in WNBA history. Parker scored 16 of her 23 points after halftime, and the Los Angeles Sparks ran off 16 straight points to overcome a 15-point, second-half deficit and hand the Shock their 18th consecutive loss, 73-67 on [...]
When NBA superstar Dennis Rodman penned an autobiography, he entitled it “Bad As I Wanna Be.” And, it seemed apt. After all, Rodman was a tenacious rebounder and a vicious competitor on the court while also being an outlandish and controversial iconoclast away from it. Those inimitable attributes, along with the five NBA championships and [...]
The recently retired Shaquille O’Neal went on “Conan” on Tuesday night and as expected, he was as entertaining as ever. Conan asked the future Hall of Famer if his parents are happy about his retirement. O’Neal said that his mother is happy, but his father calls him “dummy.” When asked why, Shaq said, “because I missed 5,000 [...]
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