By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Article Reprint When I was thirty, I was living my dream. I’d already accomplished most of what I’d set out to achieve professionally: leading scorer in the NBA, leading rebounder, leading blocker,
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California Is Facing More Woes in Prisons
By JENNIFER MEDINA Article Reprint Just six months after declaring “the prison crisis is over in California,” Gov. Jerry Brown is facing dire predictions about the future of the state’s prison system, one of the
Read moreSuns and Brothers
By JERÉ LONGMAN Article Reprint As intensely close twins, the basketball players Markieff and Marcus Morris have identical cars, beards and tattoos. One inking on their left biceps proclaims FOE, shorthand for “family over everything.”
Read moreBrad Stevens fulfills a promise, leaves the Boston Celtics for a day to appear at a parade in Connersville, IN
By Kelly Dwyer Article Reprint The Boston Celtics summer league team practices started on Saturday, a crucial step in identifying young talent in what will be a much-scrutinized rebuilding year for a team that made
Read moreGeorge Zimmerman Prosecution Petition Overwhelms NAACP Website
By ALEXIS SHAW Article Reprint A NAACP petition calling for a federal prosecution of George Zimmerman collected 225,000 signatures in the hours after he was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin, but the effort was temporarily
Read moreLegends of NBA Style: The GQ+A with Walt Frazier
By Steve Marsh Article Reprint So when Carly Simon released “You’re So Vain” in 1972, are we sure she wasn’t referring to Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier? The original NBA fashion icon—first NBA player to
Read moreSoul survivor: How Bobby Womack overcame heart failure, drug addiction and even apparent Alzheimer’s
He gave the Rolling Stones their first Number One. Fifty years on, he’s Adele’s new label mate. But the really extraordinary thing is what happened in between… Craig Mclean Article Reprint Backstage at Coachella, the
Read moreKovalchuk’s mother: Escrow, taxes led to son’s ‘civilized’ departure from NHL
By Dmitry Chesnokov Article Reprint Ilya Kovalchuk “retired” from the NHL Thursday – the news that shook the entire hockey world. SKA St. Petersburg, the KHL club Kovalchuk played for during this last NHL lockout,
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