LeBron James
Kevin Durant signs with Golden State. Nothing changes.
Durant’s move feels momentous, but it doesn’t really matter—it’s merely The Decision 3.0, a reaffirmation of NBA’s recent history
Newsmaker: Tristan Thompson, the Cavaliers’ Canadian engine
Tristan Thompson of the Cleveland Cavaliers steps up his game on basketball’s biggest stage
Canadian basketball players lack effort? Wrong.
Jason Whitlock ignores history when he says Canadian NBA players like Andrew Wiggins lack drive. But Canadians are guilty of this kind of thinking, too
LeBron James’s new (old) home and new legacy
The best basketball player on the planet returns to Cleveland and single-handedly fixes his legacy
The last of the NHL labour wars
Colby Cosh on what hockey can learn from the NBA
Losers: the down and out
From Sarah Palin’s presidential bid to dire visions of the apocalypse–everything that didn’t turn out in 2011
Is Under Armour ready for the big leagues?
The company is challenging Nike on its own turf
Play ball! Soccer, that is.
Some wealthy Americans are starting to take interest in the Beautiful Game
Sounds like a hot investment
Backed by rappers and now even Wall Street, headphones are a hit
Newsmakers
Skeletons in Princess Victoria’s closet, Dick Cheney meets his match, and LeBron James goes home
King James and King Cash
Chris Ballard’s Sports Illustrated column suggesting that LeBron James should sign for the NBA minimum in 2010, wherever he signs, amazed me for two reasons.
An Unbeautiful Mind
Amid the hysteria, demagoguery and desperation of the last two weeks, there were at least a few attempts to explore the matters of Stephen Harper’s mind and motivation (see here, here and here). A quick review of the testimony.