On Monday, Ed wrote a nostalgic piece on Shawn Kemp and the Seattle Supersonics taking on Charles Barkley and Phoenix Suns 20 years ago in a Western Conference Finals for the ages. As I’m sure you all know, those 1993 Sonics were coached by none other than current Denver Nuggets head coach George...

I had a job interview on Monday afternoon. With my corporate square suit on, my wingtips shined up and my game face ready to roll, I was headed to a second-round interview with an organization that would hopefully like to pay me for my services. Seeing that I wanted to focus on the individuals in front...

A close friend lives in Oklahoma. He works in Oklahoma City. My Gmail account sent him an email recapping a conversation about the NCAA tournament. It sent before a deadly tornado swept through Oklahoma City. Fear overtook any rationale for the email. A joke about the NCAA tournament could be the last...

Showtime’s boxing card on Saturday epitomized much about what there is to love about the sport. Devon “The Great” Alexander and Lamont Peterson are classic examples of the rags-to-riches stories that are common in the sweet science. Lee Purdy’s ability to take a beating, although difficult to...

Unwritten guidelines are present in basketball fandom. Is being a fan of a player over a team politically correct? Maybe this shouldn’t be exposed to the world, but perhaps it should. My grandfather – J.D. Marshall – was a flawed individual. He never won “Husband of the Year”...

Watching Zach Randolph struggle on Sunday afternoon versus Tim Duncan and the graybeards that are the San Antonio Spurs, it just felt like a process. No, not the process of the systematic Spurs, their coach plodding on the sidelines, the players in steady rhythm and the fans applauding like a bloodthirsty...

On Saturday, two Strikeforce standouts made their UFC debuts. Luke Rockhold, Strikeforce’s last middleweight champion, faced off against Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort, while Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, a former Strikeforce middleweight champion, faced off against Chris Camoozi. Although both fights...

NBA Fashion Fever moved to the media world? No bueno! By now we’ve all seen Dwyane Wade’s notorious “European style” suits he’s been wearing to the arenas (which, by the way,  is still NOT cool by us Americans), but now it’s become infectious. Mike and Mike’s Mike Greenberg said...

Last month, Thomas Golianopoulos of Grantland wrote a revealing piece titled “The Secret History of Kobe Bryant’s Rap Career,” in which we found out that Kobe’s pursuit as a rapper was more serious than any basketball-turned-rapper foray we’ve ever made fun of. Among the...

You know, I grew up on basketball that was played in the paint. As a youngster, big men roamed the earth and battled down low like real men are supposed to. Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon and Shaq, to name several. Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, Tim Duncan and others were power forwards...

I was that kid. I was the kid that jumped at the opportunity to not only see my favorite ballplayers, but to actually meet them as well. See, I came to age in the early 90’s, when being a young black kid meant having no shortage of stars that we could relate to. From Ken Griffey Jr. and Frank Thomas...

Errol Spence Jr., 2012 boxing Olympian. You probably haven’t heard of him. You’ve got to be a boxing fanatic for him to even register on your radar. But in the week leading up the Floyd Mayweather vs. Roberto Guerrero fight, everyone in the boxing world was saying his name in hushed tones. What...