Pippen retires as one of game&#39;s best, not one of its most loved
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He had a body straight out of an NBA laboratory and a face like a Peruvian sun god. He was a versatile Swiss Army Knife who could shoot, pass and run the floor.
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WHEN BARRY Bonds was a youngster, he walked among adult major-leaguers, many of them the greatest baseball players of the 1960s and&#39;70s.
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One thing to remember about the playoffs is that it isn&#39;t always the best team that wins, but the team that plays the best in October.
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In the retirement game, sometimes the best offense is a good defense.
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There aren&#39;t many NBA coaches who would publicly side with a player, as opposed to management, in a contract dispute. But then, there aren&#39;t many coaches like San Antonio&#39;s Gregg Popovich, who has the luxury
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Sooner or later, every professional basketball playerâs career comes to an end. For Todd MacCulloch, that day came earlier than expected.
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DEERFIELD, Ill. - Scottie Pippen, who helped lead the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles in the 1990s, has retired, the team announced Tuesday...
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Baseball lost nearly a century&#39;s worth of lore when the Boston Red Sox retired the Curse of the Bambino on Wednesday night. The curse was a crock, of course, and the elegant suffering of Boston fans surpassed its sell-by date decades ago.
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Scottie Pippen, who teamed with Michael Jordan to form a tandem that drove the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles in the 1990s, is expected to retire after 17 seasons, an NBA source said Monday.
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Tony Parker could become the first European player to be named Most Valuable Player of the National Basketball Association Finals, but he will have to dethrone teammate Tim Duncan to do it.
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The United States basketball team didn&#39;t just lose to Argentina and, with it, a chance to play for the Olympic gold medal. The high-priced roster of NBA players might have lost something even more precious than that: the world&#39;s respect.
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Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs woke up Tuesday facing a new identity: They&#039;re no longer the best team in the NBA, the Western Conference or even their division.
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Scottie Pippen may have been the most significant figure in the history of the NBA. Nah, lots of guys refuse to go into games. Heck, Carmelo Anthony made the Olympic team after he did it last season.
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In today&#39;s NBA, it&#39;s tough to gain respect playing in the Eastern Conference. It apparently doesn&#39;t matter that the defending champs loom there.
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In NBA news, seven-time All-Star and six-time World Champion Scottie Pippen has announced his retirement from the Chicago Bulls. Pippen said Tuesday that it was a very difficult
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Scottie Pippen announced his retirement from the Chicago Bulls, the team he and Michael Jordan led to six NBA titles in the 1990s.
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The part about peace on earth, good will toward men. . . . It won&#39;t really apply at today&#39;s two NBA games. Good tidings will not be what Shaquille O&#39;Neal brings when he faces Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles