Basketball

The year in sports: Believe the hype The year in sports: Believe the hype

2008 was a series of did you see thats that are destined to become do you remembers.
  • NCAA Tournament, Day 1 -- live!

    If you want to understand America, you don't have to watch all this basketball. But it helps.
  • Best! Game! Ever! Played!

    The trend in sports books is to claim that a single contest changed the course of history. Sure it did.
  • Cleveland without rival in futility

    Buffalo and San Diego haven't crowned a champ in a while either, but they've had fewer teams.
  • NBA 2008-09: Houston over Detroit

    If Yao, McGrady and Artest stay healthy and sane -- three big ifs -- look out for the Rockets.
  • Baseball gets chippy

    Six hit batsmen, two collisions, an injured catcher and a woozy top prospect. No wonder big-league teams want no part of the Olympics.
  • Where have you gone, Allen Iverson?

    The U.S. men's return to basketball dominance is a lot less interesting than those fascinating days of dysfunction in Athens.
  • Donaghy sentencing: The NBA still snoozes

    The league should use the "rogue" ref as an opportunity to overhaul its officiating. But the commissioner says everything's fine.
  • WNBA brawl: Bad, but good?

    Tsk tsk and all that, but at least people are talking about the league.
  • So long, Billy Packer

    After three decades calling the Final Four, he's out at CBS. Has anyone in sports TV lasted so long while being loved so little?
  • The free-agent fandango

    NBA and NHL players are switching teams willy-nilly, money is flying, and in nine months it'll all mean something.
  • NBA draft

    Rose goes first, Riley takes Beasley after all, and the New York fans boo the Knicks' choice, as always.
  • Awesome; I f**kin' shot that basketball movie!

    The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch on his new documentary, "Gunnin' for That #1 Spot," and tomorrow's NBA superstars.
  • Young ballers: See the world

    The N.Y. Times profiles a high school basketball star on the verge of a smart response to the NBA age limit.
  • Sonics: We're worthless

    The NBA team makes a bizarro-world argument as it tries to escape Seattle.
  • Celtics demolish Lakers for title

    L.A. walked into Game 6 looking to get KO'd, and Boston more than obliged to wrap up the NBA Finals.
  • Election 2008: Declare a forfeit

    To avoid humiliating a once-great party and subjecting America to more painful glimpses of McCain's ideas and teeth, the mercy rule must be invoked now.
  • Turkey tops the Celtics' comeback

    Three goals in final 15 minutes of regulation give the Turks a stunner of a win over the Czech Republic at Euro 2008. Plus: Soccer letters.
  • Superstar rules help the Lakers

    Bryant gets a key non-call to help L.A. send the NBA Finals back to Boston for Game 6.
  • Celtics take control with huge comeback

    Chopping down a 24-point lead, Boston wins to put the Lakers at death's door.
  • Sonics to Seattle: Screw us? Screw you!

    Owners argue that poor attendance means city doesn't care about team -- which owners have destroyed and tried to move.
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