LeBron James proved he has no problem sharing his opinion on social issues in the past. Now he’s setting his sights on the tributes that recently surfaced surrounding Eric Garner’s death. MORE: Politics and sports | Reggie Bush wears ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirt | LeBron sits courtside at Knicks game Derrick Rose wore a shirt during pregame warm ups on Saturday with the Garner’s last words — “I Can’t Breathe” — on the front....
Bryant was one of nine people who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif. Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna was also killed. James for a long time competed against Bryant as a fierce rival, and he continued to share a close personal connection with Bryant after Bryant retired. Their bond grew even tighter two summers ago when James signed with the Lakers. On Saturday, James moved beyond Bryant into third place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, leading the duo to exchange appreciation for one another....
James, who will become a free agent on July 1, plans to seek the maximum contract allowed under the NBA’s salary cap, ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst reports. The max contract is projected to be $22.2 million for next season. MORE: Source: LeBron likely to stay in Miami | LBJ will become free agent | Hornets flip Napier, LBJ likes it This is important because James, along with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, accepted a pay cut to make salaries work in Miami....
Leeson, 28, admitted to altering documents in a desperate bid to conceal losses of more than $1 billion on derivatives trades. His Singapore defense attorney, John Koh, said Leeson went all-out to cooperate with the investigation in the hope that he would earn a lighter sentence. In doing so, he may have implicated some of his superiors – a former managing director had his passport confiscated–and with time off for good behavior he could be out in a few years....
He stopped to pose for photos with families and congratulate the newest Tigers alumni. He's smiling on the outside, but in his head, he's likely counting down the seconds until LSU's first kickoff.
The running back’s temper tantrum didn’t stop there, as he reportedly didn’t show up to a “welcome home” party thrown for him by former teammates Jason Peters and Vinny Curry that night in in Philly. MORE: Playoff picture: Eagles, Bills both alive and well | Week 15 opening lines Considering how emotional McCoy was prior to kickoff, with a hug for Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie and a kiss for the Eagles logo at midfield, one would imagine he’d enjoy his time in town....
Well, it was really supposed to be about making up for the planned title bout between Cain Velasquez and Werdum. MORE: 37 must-see UFC photos | Gruesome sports injuries With one punch, Jessica Eye ended all that. In the first round of her fight with Leslie Smith, Eye caught her opponent on her left ear. It promptly exploded, causing blood to go everywhere. It was a gruesome injury that caused a stoppage....
Like, it happened once before. MORE: Chase drivers in trouble | Standings entering Kansas | Matt Kenseth’s Charlotte nightmare Want to bet there are folks at Hendrick Motorsports with sore feet from kicking something after Johnson’s incredible convergence of crisis? Freak chance, maybe, ended Johnson’s run at a seventh Sprint Cup when a $50 part broke at Dover. “Bro, I got something breaking big time in the car,” an agitated Johnson told crew chief Chad Knaus....
All the Pretty Horses OPENING NATIONWIDE: DEC. 25 It’s always dangerous turning a beloved novel into a film; its fans are likely to resent anyone’s hijacking their own private images of the tale. In the case of a book as writerly as Cormac McCarthy’s “All the Pretty Horses,” there’s no way a filmmaker can find a visual correlative for such serpentine sentences, for rhetoric that can soar as high as a hawk over the Mexican landscapes where two young Texas boys go riding in search of adventure....
Washington is clinging to the carcass of a policy that has lost all effectiveness. The economic sanctions have impoverished Iraq while doing nothing to dislodge Saddam Hussein. We have lost support for our policies in Europe, in the United Nations Security Council and in the Arab world. Even Syria–a foe for decades–has begun a rapprochement with Baghdad. Every report out of Iraq suggests that people there blame America and not Saddam for their plight....
I propose we look at Omicron a bit differently than Democrats want us to. You needn’t be a virologist to understand that COVID will not go away. Viruses seldom do. Indeed, the World Health Organization has only classified two viruses as having been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest. COVID will continue to mutate and spread. You can only mitigate its effects where you can and hope newer strains weaken. The good news is, so far, Omicron is a weak variant....
Once there were hunters and there were gatherers, and to be the former you needed a Y chromosome. But now hunters wear eyeliner and earrings, are retrofitting their rifles to accommodate their shorter arms and are demanding–and getting–“camo” designed for their plumbing. (Before the recent advent of drop-seat pants, women bad to either burst their bladders during a long stalk in the woods or risk hypothermia.) You can disparage them as Iron Janes, or as women who used to Run With the Wolves and are now shooting them....
It was the American century–in art and entertainment, as in power politics and commerce. Americans invented jazz and rock and roll, abstract expressionism and the skyscraper; we’ve seen the golden age of Hollywood and the rise, for better or worse, of television and the cult of celebrity. In Louis Armstrong’s sky-splitting trumpet, in Audrey Hepburn’s wry bemusement at her own radiance, you could feel the joy of liberation. In the grisly novels of Stephen King, in Charlie Parker’s saxophone leaping and wriggling at the edge of hysteria, you could feel the dread–and find refuge from it....
But in the New Jersey suburb where I live, nobody batted an eye. We live in a family-friendly town, where crossing guards watch over kids on their way to and from the excellent public schools. Our house, a rambling Victorian, had a spare bedroom, and we already owned a minivan. Even the swing set in the backyard had space for three swings. So why not fill them all? Out in the leafy land of the Ford Expedition and the McMansion, it seems like hardly anyone has just two kids anymore....
It was never easy, taxi-ing about the Big Apple. Ten years ago when I lived in New York, I was constantly astonished by the fact that those huge taxis (by my own puny Australian standards), devoted most of the living space, so to speak, to the driver, who sat alone in armored splendor in the front. If he got two thirds of the space, the three passengers in the back got a third, and the floor space even then would have been comfortable only for a Chinese woman with bound feet wearing size 2 shoes....
There is a very misleading statement in your report on Camp David, “Blowing the Best Chance” (April 1), in which you say that “the most enduring indictment against Arafat” is that he shrank before hard decisions. That is only partially true. He could not or would not make the hard decision to accept a truly generous peace offer from Israel, but he clearly made the hard decision to unleash the intifada, to give free rein to the militants, to condemn suicide bombings while permitting them to occur on a daily basis and to call for “the peace of the brave,” while permitting Palestinians to wage the war of the cowardly by targeting civilians....
In the Sandpile, it is always summer. So as fall spread across America, the father of Cmdr. Sue Carroll, a Navy nurse, cut some autumn leaves and sent them to her in Saudi Arabia. She hung them up in her tent. Now, each time she looks at them, she says, they remind her “that somewhere back there is a place where they lead normal lives–and love me.” Mail call–a soldier’s story....
Richards, who is also an executive producer of Jeopardy! was lined up to take on the highly coveted job but had a swift fall from grace this week after comments he made on a podcast eight years ago resurfaced. The Anti-Defamation League called for an investigation following a story in The Ringer that reported Richards’ disparaging comments mocking women’s weight, Jewish people and Asians on episodes of his podcast “The Randumb Show” from 2013-2014....
