Featured Athletes
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Wu Chia-ching
22 July 2010 1:43 PM | No CommentsWu Chia-ching is a professional pool player. He is nicknamed the “Taisun” (“Little Genius”).
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Johnny Archer
22 July 2010 1:42 PM | No CommentsJohnny Archer (born 12 November 1968 in Waycross, Georgia) is an American professional pool player. He is nicknamed “the Scorpion” (his zodiac sign is Scorpio, and one of his sponsors is Scorpion Cues). On June 8, 2009, Johnny Archer was nominated to be inducted into...
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NBA Archive
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Lakers beat Celtics for 16th NBA title
Posted on June 17, 2010 | No CommentsThe Los Angeles Lakers have won their 16th NBA championship, dramatically rallying from a fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Boston Celtics 83-79 Thursday night in Game 7 of the NBA finals. Kobe Bryant scored 23 points despite 6-of-24 shooting while winning his fifth title with... -
Aggressive Lakers romp to force Game 7
Posted on June 16, 2010 | No CommentsThe Los Angeles Lakers grabbed the lead just past the five-minute mark of Game 6 and never trailed again in a resounding win to force a seventh and deciding game against the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals. Kobe Bryant scored 26 points and Ron... -
Lakers win Game 3 of the NBA Finals
Posted on June 9, 2010 | No CommentsDerek Fisher rebounded the final errant Ray Allen jumper, lowered his head and made a beeline toward the basket, looking off his teammates and focusing squarely on the basket. As three Boston Celtics closed in on him, Fisher lunged toward the basket and tossed the... -
Cuban fined $100,000 by NBA for comments about LeBron
Posted on May 23, 2010 | No CommentsApparently, Mark Cuban is 10 times as guilty as Steve Kerr. The Mavericks’ owner Saturday was hit with a $100,000 fine by the NBA for comments made about free agent-to-be LeBron James that were perceived by the league as tampering. Cuban said he would have... -
Kobe Bryant battles the Orlando Magic and Father Time in NBA Finals
Posted on June 3, 2009 | No CommentsWhen Kobe Bryant worked out for the Lakers as a high school graduate in 1996, he stunned them with his leaping ability and raw basketball talent that few 17-year-olds had ever possessed. Lakers luminary Jerry West, the team’s executive vice president at the time, said... -
Lakers head to NBA finals
Posted on May 31, 2009 | No CommentsKobe Bryant led the Los Angeles Lakers back into the NBA Finals with a 119-92 rout of the Denver Nuggets in Colorado. Bryant scored 35 points and added 10 assists while team mates Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom had 20 points apiece in one of... -
Magic 103, Cavaliers 90 – Howard Unstoppable as Magic Foils James and Reaches Finals
Posted on May 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe audience at Amway Arena reached its collective peak as Hedo Turkoglu bounced the ball at midcourt before delivering it to a deserving Dwight Howard. Each dribble dwindled a coinciding timeline — the Orlando Magic’s first N.B.A. finals appearance since 1995 and LeBron James’s postseason... -
LeBron refuses to let Cavs lose in Game 5
Posted on May 29, 2009 | No CommentsThe Cavs started the game by focusing their offense on everybody but LeBron. Screen-and-rolls involving Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Delonte West. Mo Williams taking Rafer Alston to the hole. West, again, with a flipper and a long jumper. Snappy ball movement was the early game plan,... -
Magic survive Cavs rally, go up 3-1 in series
Posted on May 26, 2009 | No CommentsSuperman swooped in just in time. Dwight Howard scored 10 points in overtime and the Orlando Magic, raining down 3-pointers like a Florida thunderstorm, withstood 44 points and a last-second shot by LeBron James for a 116-114 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday night... -
James’ buzzer-beater lifts Cavaliers over Magic
Posted on May 24, 2009 | No CommentsThe Cleveland Cavaliers needed a miracle. LeBron James delivered. James made a fadeaway 3-pointer over Orlando’s Hedo Turkoglu as the final horn sounded Friday night to give the Cavaliers, their season a heartbeat from major trouble, a 96-95 victory over the Orlando Magic that evened...
