Basketball

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  • In antitrust we trust

    If baseball's exemption were lifted, real fans might be able to afford tickets, and teams would stop holding cities hostage. Call your congressman.
    By Allen Barra May 19, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Are women's magazines dead? Plus: Don't break out the Geritol for NBA players; Cardinal O'Connor was not a hero to all.
    May 9, 2000

  • Geezer hoops

    NBA basketball is suddenly an old, cold victim of its own marketing strategy. Plus: What was baseball's Elian protest really about?
    By Allen Barra May 5, 2000

  • Why Bob Knight should bag it

    Indiana University's basketball coach is an angry, vulgar, violent creep, but that's not the reason he should resign.
    By Eric Boehlert April 3, 2000

  • The $126 million man

    What did it take for Kevin Garnett to become the young darling of the NBA? Arms and legs that go on for days and standards that are very, very high.
    By Joe Gioia February 12, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    Is Jim Carrey really the best comic since Chaplin? Plus: It's urban playgrounds that produce NBA stars; does Indian school yield high-tech geniuses or drones?
    Letters to the Editor December 14, 1999

  • Blackballed

    A white sports fan wrestles with basketball's racial taboos.
    By Sallie Tisdale December 7, 1999

  • Basketball diaries

    Salon's Jake Tapper goes among the redwoods, with camera in hand, at Bill Bradley's Madison Square Garden fund-raiser.
    By Jake Tapper November 17, 1999

  • Team Bradley's all-star lineup

    A look at the players behind Bill Bradley's Madison Square Garden fund-raising extravaganza.
    By Jake Tapper November 15, 1999

  • Madison Square Bradley

    Basketball Hall of Famers and former Knicks turn out in droves for the political fund-raiser of the year.
    By Jake Tapper November 15, 1999

  • White Reps. can't jump

    Members of Congress and the "third house" hoop it up for charity.
    By Jake Tapper October 18, 1999

  • Basketball diary

    Showtime's sorry drama "The Hoop Life" and its young writer want to dramatize the sporting life, but on the court or off, reality is always far more interesting than fiction.
    By Robert Wilonsky August 18, 1999

  • The rehabilitation of Latrell Sprewell

    The Knicks star has gone from villain to hero -- because he challenged authority in a city sick of The Man.
    By Julian Rubinstein June 21, 1999

  • Writing on Air

    David Halberstam talks about his new book, "Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made."
    By Geoff Edgers February 18, 1999

  • Michael Jordan's final act

    Michael Jordan is leaving at the top. That's why we need him to stay.
    By Dan Brekke January 14, 1999

  • First Pick by proxy

    Being athletically challenged is not genetic.
    By Carol Snow September 22, 1998

  • "He Got Game"

    Spike Lee's "He Got Game" is a sentimental but affecting look at how a father regained his long-lost son -- through basketball.
    By Gary Kamiya April 30, 1998

  • Media Circus:

    The Latrell Sprewell case may signal the collapse of America's last racial utopia -- sports.
    By Gary Kamiya December 10, 1997

  • gangsta athletes, anxious whites

    THE LATRELL SPREWELL CASE MAY SIGNAL THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICA'S LAST RACIAL UTOPIA -- SPORTS.
    BY GARY KAMIYA December 10, 1997
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