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With four likely Hall of Famers on the floor, the Lakers-Spurs series ought to be one for the ages. But the outcome may turn on a much more prosaic performer.
By Allen Barra
May 16, 2001
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Michael Jordan's rumored return to the court sounds like a great idea for the NBA. It isn't.
By Allen Barra
April 18, 2001
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All those "upsets" are exciting, but they're only "upsets" because the selection committee hasn't realized that the mid-major teams that keep their players are really good.
By Luc Hatlestad
March 22, 2001
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The new frontier in sports advertising might be the well-inked players themselves.
By Allen Barra
March 21, 2001
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Taco Bell will give every American a taco if the Russian space station hits a target in the Pacific. Beats sitting through certain NBA games.
By King Kaufman
March 20, 2001
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Michael Jordan, of course. He gracefully handled a situation similar to the one that's scuttling the Lakers.
By Allen Barra
January 31, 2001
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The NBA is suffering, not because it misses Michael Jordan, but because there are too many teenage millionaires who can't shoot.
By Allen Barra
October 31, 2000
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"Curling is electrifying in comparison"
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June 23, 2000
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There's nothing sweeter to a Lakers fan than watching the former Celtic once again denied a career-capping championship.
By Anthony York
June 23, 2000
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NBA basketball would be great if they'd just change a few things. Such as, just for starters: Everything.
By Gary Kaufman
June 20, 2000
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Come back, Mr. Jordan: The NBA Finals are in danger of going down as the lowest-rated playoffs since
1981, while couch potatoes turn off college games, too. What's wrong with hoops?
By Eric Boehlert
June 20, 2000
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Compared to other players, rather than to his own supposed potential, he's one of the best ever. When he wins a championship this month, fans will take notice.
By Allen Barra
June 2, 2000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Extra! Extra! Put the seat down! Senate reporters forced to use coed loo; "American Pie" man Don McLean gets goopy over Madonna. Plus: The descent of man continues -- Carlos Santana announces his own clothing line.
By Amy Reiter
February 17, 2000
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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
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The most popular jock in the world was bigger news than the snowstorm that arrived in the nation's capital a few hours after he did.
By Dave McKenna
January 20, 2000
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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
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At last, coverage of women's sports that even this non-spectator can appreciate. Plus: One writer's plaintive cry: "Enough with the sex, dammit!"
By Jenn Shreve
November 5, 1999
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From beautiful eggs come little darlings who simply can't work under these conditions.
By Carina Chocano
October 29, 1999
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On a California campaign stop for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bill Bradley recalls his humiliating first year with the Knicks.
By Scott Lindlaw
June 15, 1999
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Michael Jordan is leaving at the top. That's why we need him to stay.
By Dan Brekke
January 14, 1999
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But the Latrell Sprewell Affair, which proves that whites can tell blacks apart nowadays, may mark the end of an era.
By David Horowitz
December 15, 1997
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