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The only other time LeBron James was sent to his knees in agony, roughly a year ago actually, he didn’t get up. He curled himself into a fetal position and stayed that way all summer, pummeled by a left-right combination of epically bad fourth quarters and a lost championship and a public relations season from […]
St. John’s assistant Mike Dunlap is the next Charlotte Bobcats coach, the Observer has learned. Dunlap, 54, is a former Denver Nuggets assistant who was acting head coach this season at St. John’s while Steve Lavin was recovering from prostate cancer surgery. A source familiar with the process said Dunlap was offered the job Monday […]
The Miami Heat have been a top-five defensive team each of the last three years. And with a top-five defense comes an ability to win ugly, to pull out a low-scoring victory when your own shots aren’t falling. But entering Sunday’s Game 3 of the 2012 Finals, the Heat hadn’t really won ugly since Game […]
“I couldn’t be happier right now,” said Simpson, who joined Raymond Floyd as the only North Carolina natives to win the U.S. Open. There’s an old saying that you don’t win the Open, the Open wins you. Not in Simpson’s case. He shot 68-68 on the weekend, brilliant considering the conditions, taking the fight to […]
Changing minds nine years deep into one of the most scrutinized careers in the history of sport is not the goal LeBron James set for himself this season. He knows better than to even bother. As absolutely spectacular as he has always been, James will likely never be the player his critics want him to […]
Seven weeks and 19 games into the Miami Heat’s postseason grind, James had moments in Game 1 of The Finals on Tuesday when the fatigue of it all peeked through. A big exhale during a dead ball, those broad shoulders visibly slumping for a second or two. One play where he wound up on […]
Dwyane Wade was angry. He already had been frustrated with what he and other members of the National Basketball Players Association had been hearing from the opposite side of the table. The NBA lockout was three months old, the 2011-12 season was in jeopardy and, during a five-hour negotiating session on the first day of […]
On Monday, Ochocinco, a former Pro Bowl receiver, signed with the Miami Dolphins four days after being released by the New England Patriots, reports ESPN. “Congrats to Chad,” tweeted his agent, Drew Rosenhaus. “It’s nice to come home.” Even thought the 34-year-old Ochocinco, a Miami native, made the Pro Bowl six times -most recently in […]
He was talking about the matchup of the league’s two best teams and the matchup of the league’s scoring champ and MVP as well, since this is the first time they’ve met in The Finals since Michael Jordan’s Bulls knocked off Karl Malone’s Jazz in 1997. This will be the fifth time […]
The two veteran judges at the center of a controversial split decision for Timothy Bradley over Manny Pacquiao in a welterweight title bout Saturday night have defended themselves, telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal they stand by their work. “I thought Bradley gave Pacquiao a boxing lesson,” Duane Ford said, according to the newspaper. “I […]
What does Chris Bosh’s strained abdomen and his teammates have in common? Each just got a gut check. And lived to tell. The last few games of a tense Eastern Conference final showed how far the Heat have come since last summer and also where they’re headed, back to the NBA Finals and a chance […]
Doc Rivers came and went. Erik Spoelstra did likewise. A good 10-15 minutes of postseason postgame podium from the two coaches passed and, in the emotional minutes after a bitterly fought Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals inMiamiTuesday, LeBron James’ name never came up. Not once. Consider the inadvertent news blackout a compliment to […]
