Add these things to the ever growing list of things I didn’t know.
1. If you declare for the NBA draft and are not selected, you can return to college ball.
2. If you do return, there is a mandatory 14 game suspension.
3. Once you do come back you can leave again and sign as a free [...]
In sports, there are always plenty of turkeys.
Two Michigan football players were arrested, charged with entering another student’s dorm and beating up a man as he entered. What’s interesting about the story is how common place it seems. Wait another week and there will be another story as bad or worse. [...]
EPILOGUE
I jumped in the Maverick and cranked over the short block V8. She’s 35 years old, doesn’t always want to start. But in the Spring, the warming weather usually convinces her to go. I noticed the little bit of blue smoke, wondered if the rings were finally shot.
I pulled onto the South loop and caught [...]
O.J. Mayo is cursed. By the power invested in Sports Illustrated, and in the name of the great mother church Nike, it’s been decided. The next big thing is here. And headed for USC.
There are two schools of thought about Mayo. You have the people who believe everything they read and [...]
THE EXCITING CONCLUSION
The unmistakable rancid odor of pig entrails mixed with recycled cabbage could mean only one thing. Pig was in the house. I finally spotted him behind lane 18, sitting with Melda Jenkins. They were huddled together laughing, neither seemed overly concerned with her boy’s plight.
Pig was made for a scene like this, [...]
Fans are convinced sports would be better if only someone listened to their ideas. Take the designated hitter. Please. If Major League Baseball would only ask me, I’d tell them what a ridiculous idea the DH is and we’d be done with it. But, noooooo……
Then there is March Madness. It is madness. Geographical madness. Pittsburgh [...]
SOUTH CHICAGO
The south side of Chicago is the baddest part of town. And if you go down there you better best beware of a man named…..
Redel Gowens. Man, Hog. You can sure make a mess of things. It was almost midnight. I had left Dusty and gone to my pen to crash. Ten hours of [...]
IN-LAWS AND OUTLAWS
I gave Miracle the phone number of a friend who works at Harpo Studios, and he disappeared, off to see the show. I wondered if he would change first. At least fix his makeup.
Meanwhile, I needed some chow. I had chosen Lillian’s for our meet because hers was one of the few places [...]
REDEL GOWENS
As I moved out of the shadows back onto the main ballroom floor, I noticed the party was waking up. That’s the nature of these roasts, they take on a life of their own. Just when you think the Beast is dead, she rears her ugly head. People come and go, the characters may [...]
LeBron James wants to be, in his words, "an international icon". Microsoft wants to partner with him to on a website for kids so they can see how he became successful. Fair enough. But why does James want to be an icon?
An icon is defined as "an image, a representation". Also [...]