23 Reasons Derrick Rose Was a Good Pick For the Bulls

1- He's a scorer, averaging 15 points a game in his only season at the University of Memphis. That would have been third on the Bulls last season, but Rose's 48% shooting from the field would have tied him with Luol Deng for the team lead. 2- He's a passer, averaging five assists a game. Like any good player though, D-Rose [read more...]

Tiger Joins Elite Company

I'm far from what you would call a golf guy. I know maybe ten players on the PGA tour, have never played a round in my life and my greatest education on the sport comes from Rick Reilly columns, "Caddyshack" and "Happy Gilmore". My lifetime highlights in the sport all involve mini-golf or video games, and I barley can hit [read more...]

Latest Win for Tiger a Super Knee-jerker

Once again, it is quite obvious that sportswriters and golf fans across the world haven't seen enough superhero movies or underdog epics. How do I know this? Well, because everyone was so quick to begin oooooing and ahhhhhhing over Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open while hobbling around on a bum knee. I guess I should be in awe like [read more...]

Phil’s Quest for 10

When Game 1 of the historic 2008 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics tips off on Thursday night, the answers to many questions will finally come to light. Does Kevin Garnett have the inner-drive to dominate a defender who has one-third of his skills? Can Lamar Odom fill the Finals X-Factor shoes that Robert Horry [read more...]

Dig on Doug, Dude

Let me begin with a caveat – Doug Collins is not (yet) the head coach of the Chicago Bulls. Sure, I'm a realist. I know these stories saying that "the deal is in place" don't come from nowhere; I'm prepared to accept that Bulls GM John Paxson and the excitable Mr. Collins have an agreement in principle, and that in all [read more...]

NSR REVIEWS: Everything They Had

courtesy of Letters on Pages This book is a little bittersweet because it is a posthumous collection of some of David Halberstam's best work. Halberstam is probably one of the greatest sportswriters ever, so it is sad that we won't get anymore of his writing. Halberstam writing is incredibly laid back and fun to read. He has the ability to make [read more...]

Kobe Bryant: The Jaundiced View of a Superstar

Right here before these playoffs end, before we get to the Finals, it is important to put Kobe Bean Bryant in some sort of perspective. His Los Angeles Lakers - and make no mistake, on the court they are his Lakers - are winning and winning big. They finished first in the highly-competitive Western Conference with a 57-win season. They [read more...]

Donaghy’s New Allegations Have A Very Real Past

"Anybody who tells you that Michael Jordan was suspended for a year because of gambling is lying. That's not what happened." That was one of ESPN's Mike Greenberg's statements in response to Tim Donaghy's lawyer's charge that other referees, coaches, and players were involved in gambling in the NBA: According to documents filed by the lawyer, John Lauro, Donaghy provided law enforcement [read more...]

Ten Years Later…

When was the last time you went on YouTube and watched some old Michael Jordan highlights? Can you remember the smile on your face when John Paxson's three beat the Suns in the 1993 Finals? Do you still consider Phil Jackson a Bull, or has his time with the Lakers adjusted your thinking? It has been ten years since the Bulls [read more...]

MVP Kobe Does What the Greatest Do

There are beauties and there are beasts. In the NBA both are considered for MVP consideration. Chris Paul with his 21 points, 11.6 assists to only 2.5 assists, and league-leading 2.7 steals is a beauty. Kevin Garnett, who led the Boston Celtics to 66 victories and was the Defensive Player of the Year, is a beast. But neither won the MVP. The [read more...]

Wost Pick Ever?

It was 24 summers ago, in June of 1984, that the Portland Trail Blazers made the biggest mistake since Japan provoked the United States into World War II. Equipped with the second pick in the best NBA Draft class of all-time, Portland decided to select University of Kentucky center Sam Bowie instead of future NBA Hall-of-Famers Charles Barkley, John Stockton, [read more...]

NBA Draft ‘07 - 1984 Redux?

I am currently reading the book Tip Off, by Filip Bondy. [review coming soon to CSR]. It's about the 1984 NBA Draft and makes the claim that it changed basketball forever - I can't disagree with that. While reading it, I have been struck with how similar the situation was in 1984 to the situation entering the 2007 NBA Draft. [read more...]

LeBron Changes… Everything

6/2/2007 6:00:00 PM by D.K. Wilson Bye-bye Kobe. Can you say Sisyphus? ------------------------ What franchise is worth more, the NBA or Nike? Oh, I thought so. Because Bron Bron, the Game One idiot savant with his idiosyncratic way of pounding opposing players with his body on the way to the rack like the cartoon Bam Bam, sloughed off the "idiot" and looks [read more...]

Hart Surgery: The Most Dominant Athlete Ever

I have this friend. To say he is stubborn is to say that Bobby Brown is slightly unstable. This friend is a running enthusiast, and because of his appreciation for the endurance and stamina it takes to compete in sports that require those traits, he has developed an incredible passion for and devotion to Lance Armstrong. Now, I am on the [read more...]

Dragging MJ Through the Mud

In his Monday column, where he admonishes Michael Jordan for gambling, saying that it may unalterably taint the Airness' legacy, the Sun-Times Jay Mariotti says that according to former Wizards teammate Richard Hamilton, "…Jordan refused to leave the court until he had broken even in their regular competition of halfcourt heaves, regardless if he was down as much as a [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Insomnia

I have no will power. It is bad enough I have trouble sleeping, but the fact I cannot keep myself from watching late night television is no help either. If I didn't have a TV in my room, I might sleep an average of an hour or two more per night. Every night I find myself glued to the only [read more...]

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