Memo to Dennis Rodman: Dictators don’t have friends. Kim Jong-Un is using you. While I don’t know the North Korean dictator personally, I find it pretty hard to believe that Kim Jong-un is your “friend for life.” I don’t think that he is available to discuss a personal problem or offer advice on a business matter. I am pretty sure that he is using you for his own ends, not the other way around. While you may somehow believe that you are
Dennis Rodman appears to have made good on his promise to field a team of ex-NBA players for his trip to North Korea to play basketball in honor of Kim Jong-Un’s birthday, from which we can surmise that we now know exactly which ex-players will do absolutely anything to make money. Even if it means traveling to the country with the worst human rights record on the planet. Rodman’s team includes Kenny Anderson, Vin Baker, Doug Christie, Craig Hodges, Clifford Robinson
This is how you know your star transcends the universe where it was created. LeBron James – two-time defending champion, four-time MVP, best player on the planet – was the topic of three different stories Tuesday. And none of them were about NBA basketball. Not one, not two … Three. [Read more…]
I got an extended tour of the USC campus. LOS ANGELES, CA— When you head on the road for a two-and-a-half week trip to Houston and Los Angeles, you’re bound to screw up somewhere along the way. That screw up happened to me last night: I was supposed to attend an Arizona vs. USC game tonight at the Galen Center in downtown LA, but that game is tomorrow evening. [Read more…]