FIRST-PERSON: Thanksgiving &amp; Ron Artest
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JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--Since Thanksgiving is upon us, I was pondering a holiday-related topic for this week&#39;s column. But then Ron Artest and the Indiana Pacers decided to pick a fight with
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Questions will be asked tonight at Madison Square Garden. Difficult questions. Questions about the futures of Felix Trinidad and Ricardo Mayorga. Very likely they will be questions only one of them will be able to answer.
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Quite a week for the geriatric set. John McCain wraps up the GOP nomination. Shaquille O'Neal wraps up his Miami incarnation and continues his warm-weather odyssey in the NBA with a move to Phoenix. Who said this was no country for old men?
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There's just something about Thanksgiving that brings out the best in some teams.
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PHILADELPHIA -- To most teams, Ron Artest would be a distraction. If he is that to the Indiana Pacers, itâsa distraction some other teams might like to have, and Jermaine OâNeal, for one, wishes people would pay attention to that.
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CLIPPERS 102, PACERS 68---At Indianapolis, Pacers F Ron Artest said yesterday that he asked coach Rick Carlisle for time off because of a busy schedule that included promoting a soon-to
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TAMPA Â· Ever since Alonzo Mourning&#39;s devastating revelation of kidney illness in September 2000, the Heat has been more than aware of life without a dominant big man.
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What riot? &quot;An Argentine friend of mine was a little derisive of the Pacers-Pistons eruption,&quot; says reader Mike Gaynes. &quot;He snorted, &#39;Is that what Americans call a riot?
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DETROIT _ Lindsey Hunter wouldn't talk about it. Flip Saunders insisted he hadn't thought about it _ and looked like he wanted to catch the next plane out of the interview session.  Hunter and Saunders are two of the nicest men in the NBA.
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Charles Barkley loves watching films of himself playing basketball. He says it's not narcissistic. It's about seeing basketball played hard, with players giving 100 percent and the game coming before the individual.
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Let&#39;s imagine that Ron Artest is a knowable person, instead of an animated cartoon of NBA excess that we can conveniently vent on and villainize.
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The NBA is observing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with a series of activities league-wide with all 30 teams participating. Events include essay contests, prayer breakfasts, community outreach programs, symposiums and player appearances. USA TODAY NBA reporter Roscoe Nance spoke with NBA Community Ambassador Bob Lanier about the King holiday.
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When the game film from this one gets passed around from team to team, there is going to be a collective imbibing of hemlock across the NBA. Rajon Rondo is now making threes, too? Who's next, Leon Powe?
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When, where: Tonight, 7:30, at TD Banknorth Garden. TV, radio: FSN, WRKO (680). Records: Memphis is 4-13 (fifth in Southwest Division); Boston is 5-11 (fourth in Atlantic Division). Scoring: Hakim Warrick 15.9, Chucky Atkins 15.1, Mike Miller 14.4. Rebounding: Miller 6.4, Warrick 5.9, Lawrence Roberts 5.8. Assists: Miller 3.9, Atkins 3.7, Damon Stoudamire 3.6. Head to head: This is the ...
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Wow, wouldn&#39;t that be something if the NBA season ended with Ron Artest holding the championship trophy? It&#39;s not out of the realm of possibility.
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The basketball player formerly known as Ron Artest apparently is a Renaissance man to a fault. At least his last name is convenient, as either Artest or Artist, a straight-up, vowel-centered exchange
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It often seems as if Ron Artest cannot help being at the center of a storm.