"I know we've got a bunch of mean guys in that locker room that won't quit and are tough and gritty."

"I'll hoop with these guys anywhere in the country. I don't care if it is on blacktop. I don't care if it's snowing. I...

"The Lakers have just pooped their big-boy pants..."

Somewhere in America.

(Yesterday, lunchtime.)

"I don’t want anyone to try to grow a unibrow because of me and then try to make money off of it."

"Me and my family decided to trademark it because it’s very unique.

The David Maraniss bio of Obama is finally available.

After all the talk, you can now buy it: here . I just did. Finally, I can pull things out of it myself. Meanwhile, here's another one of...

Photographing Obama/Clarence Thomas so he appears to have a halo.

I've seen many photographs of Obama that go for a halo image around his head. Photographers/editors seem to really love this kind of th...

64-63.

Too bad it had to end!

In the Wisconsin rotunda, high school students chant "We're with Walker" and drown out the anti-Walker "Solidarity Singers."

I missed this one. It happened last Thursday. I guess I'm not covering the "Wisconsin protests" story with sufficient vigilanc...

"Other than the New York Yankees, is there a team that makes more Americans happy to see lose than the Duke Blue Devils?"

Asks Adam (at Throwing Things).

Primary results, Michigan and Arizona.

Let's watch! 7:18: Gingrich is running on about a tree falling on a house. I came in in the middle and he seems deranged. 7:21: Hoosiers...

"Pakistan Tells U.S. to 'Vacate' Air Base as Border Strike Inflames Tensions."

"... Islamabad had already ordered the country's border crossings into Afghanistan closed, blocking off NATO supply lines, after th...

Analogizing the Wisconsin Supreme Court "chokehold" incident to... basketball.

This is email from a reader, which I am posting in full, without additional comment, except to say that it's a theory and I don't ag...

Pat Summitt on her dementia: "It's not going to keep me from coaching. If anything it's going to inspire me more."

And her son, asked to comment, says: "It's hard to fight an invisible opponent, and now... we know what we're up against....

"Fight ends Georgetown basketball exhibition in China."

What the hell happened? What began as a goodwill trip to China for the Georgetown men’s basketball team turned violent Thursday night, when ...

Margo Dydek, the tallest WNBA female basketball player ever, has died of a heart attack at the age of 37.

She was 7'2" tall. Despite Dydek’s prowess in Europe, American scouts were lukewarm before she arrived in the United States in 1998...

"I've always said that sports is at the forefront of what 'real men' (read: macho men) would wear."

"There's a very simple reason... men will do or wear anything to win a game. They will shave off all their body hair, they will we...

Bruesewitz...

... gets a haircut.

The tallest teenage girl.

Originally from Jamaica, now going to school (and playing basketball) in New Jersey, Marvadene Anderson is 5" taller than Michael Jorda...

Michelle Cottle is really getting on Barack Obama's case about playing golf.

She writes: Why would a leader vowing to shake up Washington--to alter the very nature of politics--sell his soul to a leisure activity that...