Well, this is good news for the Lakers, as well as Lakers fan. The on-again/off-again negotiations with Lamar Odom, the team’s free-agent forward, apparently are over, and he will stay with the club in a four-year deal potentially worth $33 million — if the Lakers pick up the fourth year, worth $6 million. This means […]

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Swimming is a sport with problems. 1. Hardly anyone pays attention to swimming unless it’s an Olympic year. (The world championships are going on right now, in Rome. Did you have the foggiest idea?) 2. About 80 percent of all swimming news stories seem to be about what sort of suits the swimmers are wearing. […]

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