ESPN is reporting that the Denver Nuggets have fired coach Jeff Bdzelik and given the interim job to former Laker Michael Cooper. I’m happy for Coop, the former Pasadena City College star, who in recent years coached the Sparks of the WNBA to two league titles and has been eager for an NBA head job [...]

You know how on Christmas Day you open that one present that makes you ohh and ahh (and makes you wish you’d bought that person something better than a salad spinner), but three months later its another present that you use every day. Well, while the Lakers and Heat provided the ohhs and ahhs on [...]

In an absolute rip-off of the Sports Guy, here is my minute-by-minute diary from Christmas Day. (Well, not the entire day, unless you want to read about how many times you have to change a six-month-old’s diapers in an afternoon. This just covers game time, sparing you some ugly descriptions of smells.) 12:10: I sit [...]

Near the end of the Christmas Day game, I expect to hear Al Michaels utter this sentence: “Our Chevrolet player of the game is Dwyane Wade, who opened a lot of eyes with his 38-point performance today.” Shaq is going to have some 5.0 on the Richter Scale dunks. Kobe is going to make moves [...]

Whether you came here as a regular reader or just wanted to find out more about Kobe’s shoes, I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday. Enjoy the food, family, gifts and the game today. I just want to take this chance to say thank you to the loyal readers I’ve picked up — [...]