Larry Brown Bows Out

Larry Brown’s legacy is a difficult one to pin down. On one hand, he’s a brilliant basketball professor.  On another hand, his perpetual wanderlust has made him unreliable to count on long-term. During a nearly half-century of coaching, Brown has accumulated more Air Miles than a Secretary of State taking 13 different jobs, with only one stint lasting longer than [&hellip

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VICE Sports: LeBron James Is The NBA’s Anachronistic Superstar

I wrote about this young actor for VICE Sports. He is also an old NBA player from Ohio. Did you know that according to the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, Michael Jordan was the only player to score a non-dunk field goal in the original Space Jam? That Space Jam 2 role is perfect, because LeBron has forgotten how to shoot, [&hellip

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Feeding the Troll: Laremy Tunsil Edition

The following is the transcript of a conversation I recently had with a Facebook troll, who sought to remain anonymous. Anonymous Troll: Remember when social media was just a place to post photos of your lunch spread and complain about celebrity rumors? Now it’s an unsavory destination where idiots go to record their delinquent behavior. It’s like everyone wants to [&hellip

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After Feasting On Philly’s Famine, Sam Hinkie Finally Surrendered To His Sixerphean Fate

  In the quarter-century since it’s inception, Apollo Global Management, LLC has feasted on famines to become a multi-billion dollar entity. Their investment in LyondellBasell Chemical seven years ago was arguably their most successful. At that point in 2009, LyondellBasell was inhaling monumental financial losses. It was the corporate equivalent to asbestos filling the lungs.  In January 2009, they declared [&hellip

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Nick ‘Young And The Restless’ Lakers

From the rolling hills of Burbank, to the hustle and bustle of downtown Los Angeles’ hazy air, inside auditoriums at USC and along the coasts of Santa Monica are thousands of actors who would kill for the exposure that Nick Young has received from his starring role in D’Angelo Russell’s short film. Before the season, I began calling the Lakers [&hellip

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