Here is some video from the French Daily L’Equipe, in French, with a money quote at the end from Florent Pietrus, the brother of NBA veteran Mickael Pietrus. I am in Paris tonight, sitting next to a bilingual American musician friend who is embedded here, who translates for us: “I think it’s going to be tough for us, but I think it’s going to be tough for them as well,” Pietrus said. The French team took the Eurostar train from Paris through the
What, you thought the Americans weren’t going to be prohibitive favorites in London? Check out the odds on the Americans winning the gold medal. You have to put $8 down to win $1. You want a dark horse bet in case the unfathomable happens? Take Brazil at 40-1. In case you forgot, Brazil was ahead of Team USA for almost the entire first half of their “friendly” in Washington, D.C. less than two weeks ago. And they have the healthiest front line with
The 2012 NBA Champion Miami Heat won the second title in franchise history last month, and they aren’t doing what they did after the previous one — standing pat (or standing Pat, as in Riley, who felt he owed it to those players to give them a chance to defend their title.) Meanwhile, the team they defeated in the Eastern Conference finals — the Boston Celtics — have had a pretty productive summer of their own. In New York, two basketball teams
The Minnesota Timberwolves have been very active thus far in the offseason as they remodel their roster to satisfy the needs of their franchise power forward Kevin Love. They have already gotten some “bad blood” out of the locker room with players such as Darko “Mana from Heaven” Milicic and Michael “Tito Jackson” Beasley, while acquiring a great player and character in Brandon Roy. The team loaded itself with another major piece today, as you will see in today’s news
Hola from Barcelona, where Team USA defeated Spain last night by 22 points. Their Olympic opener is Sunday against France. I have been with the team for their past four games, and will be doing a live chat today at 3 p.m. EDT. You can submit your questions now. 3:00 Good evening from Barcelona, where it is 9 p.m. Let’s get right to it. Gonna go 90 minutes, then have an early dinner, 10:30 p.m. 3:00 Comment From DK What does Kevin Love have to
