Heat check: Now that LeBron’s talents are in South Beach, how long will they stay? July would seem to be either way too late or way too early to suggest the twice-defending NBA champion Heat’s fate is teetering, moreso because of a name from the past like Greg Oden. Unfortunately, it’s a new, head-hunting age. [Read more…]
As the Miami Heat completed a four-game sweep of the No. 8-seed Milwaukee Bucks with an 88-77 win on Sunday, owner Micky Arison decided to leave the Bucks with some farewell words:
No LeBron James. No Dwayne Wade. No doubt for the Miami Heat Sunday night in San Antonio. [Read more…]
The Miami Heat just can’t stay out of the headlines these days. Not with their incredible winning streak extending to 24 games, and certainly not with their unlikely (yet so likely) 98-95 comeback victory against LeBron James’ old team – the Cleveland Cavaliers – on Wednesday night. It’s hard to determine what was more amazing: the fact that a short-handed Cavaliers team -playing without their starting center and backcourt – went up by as many as 27 points in the third
Magic Johnson just can’t seem to get what he wants these days when it comes to basketball-related issues. Hoping to see his beloved Los Angeles Lakers turn the corner by competing against one of the best in the Oklahoma City Thunder, Johnson instead witnessed his team give up a staggering 71 points in the first half. At the break, all the legend could ask was this: [Read more…]
Over the All-Star break, news broke that longtime Los Angeles Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss had been hospitalized and was battling cancer. Monday, Dr. Buss passed away. [Heisler on Buss: As owners go, he stands alone] Many NBA players (former and current), owners and personnel sent their regards via Twitter. [Read more…]
Championship teams infrequently visited the White House for well over a century until Ronald Reagan made it a tradition to host every major champion in the 1980s. Since then, every year fans have been inundated with photos and press coverage of championship teams being congratulated by the President of the United States while visiting the White House. Typically, access given to the public is limited to team photos at the front steps of the White House and in the East
Tuesday marks the 84th birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King is best known and widely respected for his efforts in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is most notably recognized for his famous “I Have a Dream” speech that he gave on August 23, 1963 during a Washington D.C. Civil Rights March. American society may still have a long way to go before we will have accomplished the goal set forth in that speech … However, without
