Tom Izzo shows concern over Michigan State injuries as fall workouts approach
Michigan State’s basketball team is coming off yet another trip to the Final Four and are expected by most to make a similar push this year under …
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Custody trial over Wade’s 2 sons starts (AP)
The appointed attorney for Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade’s two young sons has recommended to a Chicago court that the NBA star be awarded custody of the children. Wade and ex-wife Siohvaughn Wade returned to court on Wednesday, this time to begin the trial that will decide custody of their boys, ages 8 and 3.
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Yes, This Is Ron Artest Getting Pulled Over In A Go Kart
As with most Ron Artest stories, I’m not really sure how to even approach this. So what I’ll do it let TMZ gives us the details of this and walk away. Quickly.
Law enforcement sources tell us Artest was cited because the registration on the car was expired. But get this — we’re told the car isn’t even registered to Ron … but somebody out in Tennessee.
Ron — who was smiling throughout the entire incident — was eventually sent on his way … but sources tell us cops were “very happy” he was wearing a helmet.
Ron-Ron clearly has way too much time on his hands.
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Royce Reed Calls Police on Dwight Howard over Daycare Incident
All had been quiet on the Dwight Howard and Royce Reed front for most of the summer (thank Lebron). I thought Royce actually helped her public perception by appearing on Basketball Wives (didn’t know it was possible).
Alas all the good feelings couldn’t last forever as TMZ uncovered a Daycare incident between Superman and Smurfette. Here are the details:
It all went down on August 26 when Howard — who is in an ongoing custody war with baby mama Royce Reed — went to pick up their 2-year-old son. Reed, we’re told, flipped out and called the cops because she claimed the custody agreement didn’t give Howard the right to pick the child up that day.
Reed showed up at the day care center for a showdown, but Howard had already left with the kid.
The cops called Howard … and the NBA star explained he and his ex made a new agreement … giving him the right to cart his kid away that day. But … after speaking with lawyers from both sides, the cops handed down their verdict — a new custody agreement was discussed but never signed.
The cops ordered Howard to return the child to the day care center, stat. Howard’s nanny — the Henry Kissinger character — took the boy back to school and Reed took him home.
In this particular situation I am going to side with Howard. It isn’t like Dwight can flee the country on anything, so i don’t think there was any need to call the police.
Just sounds like miscommunication which happens a lot when you have two parents living apart.
You don’t want cops showing up at Daycare and people houses if it isn’t necessary that can scar a kid for life.
Just do what normal people do, make a phone call and work it out.
Life isn’t always a reality show.
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Amar’e Stoudemire Says He’d Rather Have Steve Nash On His Team Over Kobe
Although he signed with the New York Knicks this summer, Amar’e Stoudemire was back at the U.S. Airways Center to train and play against some old friends from the Phoenix Suns. Paul Coro interviewed Amar’e for AZCentral.com. Amar’e reflected on his old Suns team: The question ownership asked to me was, ‘Who do I want – [...]
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Fight over Nevada’s exit from WAC could wind up in court
As Nevada begins its transition into the Mountain West Conference, there are two certainties. One, the Wolf Pack will eventually get there, perhaps …
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Back from Africa, Blanks takes over Suns (AP)
Lance Blanks is back from Africa and on the job as new general manager of the Phoenix Suns, saying he will try to employ what he learned in a decade of front office jobs with the San Antonio Spurs and Cleveland Cavaliers. Blanks was in Senegal as part of the Basketball Without Borders organization when Suns president Lon Babby chose him to oversee the team’s player personnel operation.
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Kelly Dwyer gushes over Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett ranks 8th in BDL’s Power Forward rankings. As you are about to discover, Kelly Dwyer has a huge man crush on KG:Kevin Garnett is just about the best power forward I’ve ever
seen, so it hurts to rank him this low. But when he fell off last year, and you
saw it, the man fell hard. At his peak? No doubt, perhaps still the best in the
game at times. But those were just times. They popped up enough to keep us
around, but they were merely times. Pity.I’d still trust him, above anyone else, to guard that screen
and roll.I’d still trust his voice, above anyone else’s, to tell me
where I went wrong. I mean, I know I went wrong, but I’d really like to hear it
from a guy who has been paying expert attention since the fall of 1995 to tell
me just how I went wrong. If he
wouldn’t mind.I’d still trust him covering my guy and his, somehow, at the
same time; especially after I predicted a zig, and my guy zagged.I’d still trust hi…
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Elliot Williams All Over the Place
Portland Trail Blazers rookie guard Elliot Williams has been a busy man since being taken 22nd overall. He’s traveled back and forth over the country this summer and is definitely getting a taste for what a travel schedule for a professional basketball player looks like….
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Carmelo Anthony prefers Rockets over Knicks?
Leave it to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports to rain on Knicks fans’ parade and hear that the hype about Carmelo Anthony wanting to play for the Knicks is overblown and that he would prefer to play with the Rockets more than the Knicks. Wojnarowski and Yahoo haven’t done much favorable reporting on the Knicks’ behalf this summer and it looks like that will continue. Their sources seem to hear different things than the rest of us hear from other NBA and Knicks writers.
Wojnarowski said:
Despite significant speculation the New York Knicks are the team that Anthony would most likely want to join, two sources close to him insisted the Knicks have been overstated as an object of his desire. Privately, Anthony has expressed more enthusiasm over joining the Houston Rockets than the Knicks, sources said.
After LeBron James met with teams during the first few days of free agency, Wojnarowski reported that the Knicks’ presentation lacked “preparedness and orga…
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