Lethargic U.S. team dominates Tunisia at worlds
ISTANBUL — Eric Gordon scored 21 points and the United States pulled away after a sluggish first half to beat Tunisia 92-57 Thursday in its final game of pool play at the world championship.
With nothing to play for, the Americans sleepwalked through most of the early start, leading the winless [...]
Anthony, Nuggets look ready to part ways
Carmelo Anthony(notes) wants out of Denver, and Worldwide Wes delivered that message to the Nuggets with all the delicacy of a jackhammer at Sunday morning services. Do yourself a favor and trade him, the agent told the organization weeks ago.
Denver was furnished with a short list of teams and told to get to work. [...]
Elin Nordegren on Tiger Woods: ‘I’ve been through hell’
After nine months, Elin Nordegren has broken her silence on the infidelity scandal that rocked her family and led to the dissolution of her marriage to golf star Tiger Woods.
In what she says will be a one-time-only discussion of her side of the story, Nordegren spoke with People magazine for 19 hours over [...]
Will Iverson find a home?
Allen Iverson may not have the chance to talk again about practice with an NBA team. It did not end well in Detroit. It did not end well in Memphis. And it came to a surprisingly abrupt ending in Philadelphia. Oh, there might yet be another round of reports linking Iverson to [...]
Kwame Brown Reunited With Michael Jordan
To the surprise of countless NBA observers, Kwame Brown and Michael Jordan are together again.
A reunion that no one in the league expected after their well-chronicled difficulties in Washington will take place in Charlotte this season after Brown struck a one-year deal at the veteran minimum with the Jordan-owned Bobcats.
Mark Bartlestein, Brown’s Chicago-based agent, told [...]
Lab mistakes revive questions about murder of Jordan’s father
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The man convicted of killing Michael Jordan’s father went to prison in part thanks to testimony that he pointed a gun through a car window and fired the fatal shot from just inches away.
Given the gruesome portrayal, Daniel Andre Green’s defense attorneys repeatedly questioned why so little [...]
LeBron: Gilbert motivating me
LeBron James won’t rule out returning to play for Cleveland some day, but admitted in an interview with GQ Magazine that owner Dan Gilbert’s letter to fans on the night James left the Cavaliers gives him “a lot of motivation” for when he and his new Miami Heat teammates play his former [...]
Attorney hopeful Haslem will be vindicated in marijuana case
MIAMI (AP) — The attorney for Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem says he is hopeful the NBA player will be vindicated of a possession of marijuana charge brought following a traffic stop over the weekend.
Attorney Eric Schwartzreich says the State Attorney’s Office is reviewing the arrest paperwork. Haslem was arrested Sunday afternoon, [...]
LeBron James’s Lady
Savannah Brinson, long-time girlfriend of basketball phenom LeBron James, has just finished her first major photo shoot. For this low-key girl from Akron, Ohio, it was quite the heady experience. James is used to this sort of attention, she says. She, on the other hand, is decidedly not. “I’ve always been [...]
Jordan to present Pippen at hoops hall induction
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.(AP) — Fittingly, Scottie Pippen will have Michael Jordan by his side again when he goes into the Baskeball Hall of Fame.
Pippen will be presented by his former Chicago Bulls teammate when he is inducted Friday night. Each inductee is presented by a current Hall of Famer. Jordan was enshrined last year.
Pippen will be [...]
