Even over here in the UAE, we know the Lakers are being dissected and deconstructed, and the prevailing notion seems to be that they need to be disassembled. My first thoughts, and these go back to when the deficit to Dallas was 2-0, were “maybe they do need to blow it up.” But then I […]

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Going on 17 months now that we have been out of California — and out of the United States. I feel as if I have kept fairly good track of several American sports. Others, however, I hardly realize I haven’t been paying any attention until I blunder into some online story and realize that I […]

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I did an entry a month ago about some of the sports venues I have been in, and seen games in and filed stories from … that are gone. I had the Spectrum in Philadelphia on that list, but it was a bit premature. No longer. They got around to actually knocking down the building […]

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I liked Kevin Love from the moment I saw him. A big lumpy kid who couldn’t be as good as everyone said he was … but was. As I mentioned just a few days ago, I saw a lot of the Bruins during that stretch of three-straight Final Fours … and Kevin Love played for […]

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Even 15 years ago, keeping track of a U.S. sports team from the other side of the world would have been a dicey proposition. The first sport-specific bloggers were just firing up. (This was even before Bill Simmons.) Not every newspaper paid close attention to its website. (I worked at a place where the managing […]

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Allen Iverson, new point guard for Besiktas of Istanbul in the Turkish League. Certainly, the former MVP would prefer to be in the NBA. But after a couple of rocky seasons filled with a lot of off-the-court issues, he was not offered a job in The League, and it’s not as if he had a […]

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Sometimes we “experts” in the world of sports journalism get one wrong. Way wrong. Russell Westbrook is a recent example. He is the second-best player for the Oklahoma City Thunder, a team with Kevin Durant and a huge upside. Some of us same experts now believe OKC could finish the season with a better record […]

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I no longer recall what made me mull this topic. Maybe I was thinking of the new facilities in the Big Three sports in the U.S., and how many of them I have not seen. Which in a roundabout way led me to consider how many stadiums and arena I have been in that 1) […]

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My newspaper, The National, here in Abu Dhabi, has one of those “most-read” lists on its website. One for each department. News. Business. Sports. These lists are handy, whatever the news outlet. It allows you to discover quickly which stories are getting clicked on most often, and lets you catch up to stuff you might […]

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Normally, I don’t pay much attention to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Certainly not before LeBron James, and presumably not after. But I’ve been looking at the Cavs for a couple of weeks, before and after The Decision, and … Things are going to be horrible there. The night of The Decision, Cavs owner Dan Gilbert famously […]

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