Mark Cuban’s Good Crazy Side

There’s a crazy side to professional basketball that has nothing to do with tabloids and ethics. It’s actually a “good crazy” kind of like when you were a kid and ran into your English teacher at the grocery store. That was weird because teachers aren’t real people who eat food and drive a car. But …

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Is Tim Donaghy a Rogue?

…or are there others? Do you really think that there’s one official in the entire NBA who decided to become a cheater while all of his colleagues stayed the  straight and narrow? Tough sale for me. Pete Rose bet on baseball, athletes use performance enhancing drugs, infidelity is prevalent, etc. In Language Arts classes I …

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The Beauty of NBA Confession

View the Video link: Ron Artest Admits to Drinking During Halftime of Games Confession has certain connotations. I won’t go into what they are. Needless to say, Ron Artest unloaded one for the annals just yesterday admitting that during the first three years of his NBA career he drank heavily at halftime. This is a …

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Red with Impact

Yesterday was World AIDS Day and a host of athletes and international companies joined forces to bring attention to the global crisis that has ravaged sub-saharan Africa and more locally the American black and white communities. According to the international AIDS charity AVERT, at the end of 2007, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimated …

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Like family?

If you looked back 20 years or imagined doing so, would you look at any of your teammates the way Lebron does his?

NBA Ink Fest

I thought long and hard about gettin’ inked up when I was a teen. You know how it is in Southern California, with your elbow resting on the edge of the car window conveniently lowered and forcing the larger part of your tricep to bulge. So it was in 1993 when I left high school …

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Freedom to Create

The ingredients of creativity can probably be boiled down to three elements: Time, Regimen and Fun. Let’s start with the 86,400 seconds (TIME) we all have in a day. Beauty, fame nor fortune can buy you extra and once it’s spent, that’s a wrap. Time spends energy and creativity hinges on the energy to think …

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