In lieu of discussing more serious matters (Citizens United, health care, “Jersey Shore”), I’d like to direct your attention to the pressing issue of NBA All Star voting. After Tracy McGrady’s hobbled corpse nearly...
A nice vignette from the Grizzlies-Kings game (via): Grizzlies center Hamed Haddadi , the first NBA player from Iran, and Omri Casspi, the first Israeli player in the league, met at midcourt and shook...
The fact that teams frequently overvalue a player’s potential while devaluing actual production has been amply documented elsewhere, but I’m consistently baffled by sportswriters who exhibit the same tendency. Here, for example, is SI’s...
Coleman Collins, D-League journeyman, former Euro-basketballer, and a pretty entertaining author, is now contributing to TrueHoop. A taste: I was walking through Amsterdam the other day when I crossed paths with two German women,...
How arrogant are the Lakers? Thanks for asking. So arrogant that they feel free to change the lyrics of the national anthem. Now, fans cheer different parts of the anthem for partisan reasons all...
A cogent point from the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Mark Madsen: When the congressional hearing of Jose Canseco vs. other MLB players created questions about steroid use, Congress acted quickly and decisively and spent the next...
A great anecdote from an otherwise mediocre article on Knicks Coach Mike D’Antoni, whose tenure in Phoenix is the modern sports equivalent of Greek Tragedy:
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on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationsyou seem fun.
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsI'm not grading your papers, you are. What that says about either of us, I leave to the reader.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Jonathan Chait has an article in the Atlantic (reprinted here at AOL): Why the COVID Reckoning Is So…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25As someone who'd ban ALL campaign contributions, this is not a disqualifier for me. Plus, I don't li…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I provided a link of her rallying against AIPAC on social media. on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationsquite mad, indeed.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Agreed. on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsThey also didn't want to hold their nose at work with people that made them wretch. Many of them als… on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationswestern lens of martyrdom culture. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25You had two that auto-trashed. I fished them out.
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