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Sports Central
September 15, 2004
Alan Rubenstein |
USA Juniors Save Face With all eyes on the senior men's national team in the Olympics this summer, the under 21 men's national team won the tournament of the America's in Halifax, Nova Scotia in August.   |
Sports Central
September 2, 2004
Jonathan Lowe |
Don't Diss the Effort Seriously, is a bronze that bad? Yes, I know. Basketball is a U.S. sport, born and bred. The game's most talented players still grow up here. Plus, the coach just became the only one to ever win both the NCAA and NBA championships. |
Sports Central
August 20, 2004
Alan Rubenstein |
Striking Similarities Between Olympic Teams Everything comes full circle, or so the saying goes. For the United States Olympic men's basketball team, this has especially proven to be true. The similarities between the 1988 and 2004 teams are striking. |
Sports Central
August 24, 2007
Scott Shepherd |
Team USA: A Fresh Start Jerry Colangelo has breathed life into a dying basketball program and is in the process of bringing USA basketball back to the level that it should have never left in the fist place. |
Sports Central
August 25, 2004
Eric Williams |
Gunner For Hire The game is nip and tuck all the way, with neither team able to open a lead larger than seven points. The U.S. basketball team looks anxious and unsure of themselves, afraid to shoot from the outside, trying to force things inside their opponents' well packed-in zone. |
Sports Central
August 23, 2004
Jason Hirthler |
USA Basketball: Five Reasons We Stink Our approach to the Olympics is arrogant. We throw a team of All-Stars together a few weeks before the Olympics kick off, and we expect them to thump teams that have been training like religious fanatics for months. |
Sports Central
March 10, 2006
Bill Hazell |
Team USA Hoops: Gold or Bust If Team USA fails to win gold in 2008, it will not be because they repeated mistakes of years past. |
Sports Central
July 29, 2008
Wailele Sallas |
USA Olympic Basketball: Doomed? America still provides the newest inventive forms of offense and defense, so why does it all crumble in world play? |
Sports Illustrated
December 12, 2000
Chris Ballard |
Scorecard Who needs the Next MJ when the NBA may have Bird-Magic II? |
Sports Central
March 17, 2005
Jon Gonzales |
There is a God, and He Watches Basketball The Lakers' talent pool disbands after losing the NBA Championship, bringing competitiveness back to the league. |
Sports Central
December 29, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 9 A look back at five of the most memorable and significant moments of 2008 in the NBA. |
Sports Central
August 1, 2006
Matt Thomas |
Return to Glory: Rebuilding Team USA It has become increasingly and more painfully clear that Team USA is being marginalized on the international athletic stage by a problematic penchant for putting self-serving personal glory over the greater good of the team and the country that it represents. |
Sports Central
August 15, 2014
Ross Lancaster |
Basketball Needs to Quit Acting Like Soccer Basketball is really the only inherently North American sport that can rival soccer from both an accessibility and a cultural standpoint. |
Salon.com
April 18, 2001
Allen Barra |
Air ball Michael Jordan's rumored return to the court sounds like a great idea for the NBA. It isn't... |
Sports Illustrated
November 15, 2000
Frank Deford |
NBA recount Reversal of fortune harms league's image... |
Sports Central
April 6, 2004
Eric Williams |
The Future is Now The McDonald's game gives the college game the opportunity to replenish its ranks with star athletes and, more often than not, provides a team on the cusp of winning a championship, the difference-maker it needs to get over the hump. |
Sports Central
February 9, 2011
Matt Thomas |
Individuals Who Have Shaped College Hoops Beyond topical changes to the game, some individuals have been so dominant that they themselves necessitated rules changes that still impact the college and pro games alike. |
Sports Illustrated
January 8, 2003
Ian Thomsen |
No Simple Answer Allen Iverson's Olympic dreams may be Larry Brown's nightmare. |
Sports Central
March 26, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
The Real Sweet 16 Here is the Real Sweet 16: 16 reasons to watch the NBA stretch run over the round of 16. |
Sports Central
May 28, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
Kobe vs. LeBron: Too Good to Be True How many times in NBA history have two of the top 10 players of all-time met in the NBA Finals with both players in their prime? |
Sports Central
May 21, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
NBA Stars Align in Conference Finals The NBA conference finals offer a basketball game of great significance every day for two straight weeks. |
Sports Illustrated
October 2, 2000
Jack McCallum |
The Dream is over Do we understand this now? Is it clear? Could it be any more obvious? This Dream Team idea is finished. Time to stop sending pro hoopsters to the Games... |
Sports Central
June 3, 2009
Sean Crowe |
Save the NBA, Fire David Stern The 2009 NBA playoffs have showcased everything that's great about the current version of the NBA. Unfortunately, it's also showcased everything that's wrong with the 2009 NBA. |
Sports Illustrated
May 11, 2001
Tim Layden |
Short-term fix A Jordan return won't help the NBA in the long run... |
Sports Central
November 17, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 3 This week's "starting five" is comprised of Olympians that have hit the ground running this NBA season. |
Sports Illustrated
September 9, 2002
Alexander Wolff |
The decline of U.S. dominance As Ernest Hemingway once said of going broke, it happens gradually, and then suddenly. The same could be said for the erosion of America's global basketball supremacy, the lasting news from the world championships just concluded. |
Sports Illustrated
September 10, 2002
Ian Thomsen |
Inside Basketball: World Weary Three losses in the worlds exposed fundamental flaws in the U.S. team |
Sports Central
November 13, 2003
Derek Daggett |
LeBron/Carmelo Can't Do it Alone The NBA is not struggling because of a lack of rivalries. The Spurs/Lakers and the Kings/Lakers are great, exciting basketball. No, the game is struggling because NBA players, for all intents and purposes, have forgotten how the game should be played. |
Sports Central
September 10, 2010
Jonathan Lowe |
Once More ... With Purpose I've got to be honest. Basketball is not at the forefront of most people's minds right now. |
Sports Central
June 18, 2004
Mason Williams |
Let Larry Legend Speak On the ESPN special "Two on Two," Larry Bird stated that it would be beneficial to the NBA if there were more white star players. He went on to say that the NBA is a black man's league and that blacks are better athletes. |
Sports Illustrated
April 18, 2001
Frank Deford |
A new zone for MJ Jordan should come back, but not with the Wizards... |
Sports Central
December 8, 2004
Jason Hirthler |
Why NBA is Adrift in Middle America Where once the National Basketball Association was embraced across America's cultural divides, a phenomenon that bridged race and economic class, the league has devolved into style guide for disgruntled youth. |
Sports Central
October 23, 2011
Neil Bright |
A Long Time Gone Even 39 years after the Russians beat the American basketball team in the gold medal game at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the event inspires "we wuz robbed" anger from those old enough to remember the longest three seconds in sport's history. |
Sports Central
February 9, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
Profile of a Leader: The Magic Touch The awesome power of Bird's statement is that it's as accurate in describing Magic off the court as on it. A decade after retirement, Earvin is still one of the most charismatic and inspirational faces ever associated with the NBA. |
Sports Central
June 18, 2007
Brad Oremland |
Are the Spurs a Dynasty? To help answer that question, here's a look at the NBA's most dynastic teams ever. |
Sports Illustrated
August 28, 2001
Alexander Wolff |
A truly global game The rest of the world nearly has caught up to the U.S. in basketball... |
Sports Central
March 20, 2013
Matt Thomas |
Fact or Fiction: Heat the Best Ever? If you spend any time watching that four-letter all sports network these days, you've undoubtedly noticed that the Miami Heat are on a run for the ages. Though the verdict is still open on how far this win streak will go. |
Sports Central
June 24, 2009
Matt Thomas |
A New Laker Dynasty? There is far too much parody to consider with any sort of reasonability the fact that a single win in a single championship series is anything other than a great season worth remembering. |
Sports Central
June 28, 2012
Louie Centanni |
Come On, Ray Ray Allen has spent the golden years of his NBA career proving to everyone that he is a class act. With all of the positive ammunition he's built up at the end of his likely-Hall-of-Fame career, why would he ruin it by joining the Miami Heat? |
Sports Illustrated
March 5, 2002
Jack McCallum |
Sir Charles speaks -- as usual Barkley weighs in on all things basketball... |
AskMen.com
Phil Helm |
Top 10 NBA Colleges The schools listed here have proven that they are the masters at creating NBA players. Read on for the line-up. |
Sports Central
February 2, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 14 To illustrate the difference between a hard foul and a cheap shot, today's Starting Five is comprised of some of the most memorable cheap shots in NBA history. |
AskMen.com
Bryan Toporek |
Out With The Old NBA, In With The New In the days of the Lakers and the Celtics, the NBA was about teams. Now, it's about individual players, and the roster turnover shows just that. |
AskMen.com
Jon Finkel |
Pickup Basketball Etiquette With the NCAA Basketball Championships tonight, we thought it'd be a good time to talk about pickup basketball. |
Sports Central
October 19, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
How the Players Can Win the NBA Lockout The NBA players need to leverage their talent to win the lockout. |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2005 |
Threats to talent pools may create perfect storm Human resources executives say incoming workers with inadequate skills pose the greatest threat to business performance over the next three years, followed by baby boomer retirement and the inability to retain key talent. |
Salon.com
June 23, 2000
Anthony York |
Bird flies the coop There's nothing sweeter to a Lakers fan than watching the former Celtic once again denied a career-capping championship. |
Sports Illustrated
June 24, 2002
Phil Taylor |
Just passing through Can college basketball hang on to any of its top talent? |
Sports Central
April 20, 2015
Jean Neuberger |
One-Year Wonders Equals Long-Term Success The "one and done" theory in college basketball works for programs that do it. |
Sports Central
May 11, 2004
Doug Graham |
Three Teams That Need to Win Wanting something implies that you can let that something slip from your grasp, but, you will recover. The NBA playoffs, especially this season, is about needing to get a hold of that trophy. |
