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The LeBron in James

Here is a link to my Sunday column about how we talk about African-American athletes like LeBron James. The full text runs below: Call it the LeBron Syndrome. It is a glitch in American journalism. And it makes me wonder how our society talks, writes and thinks about African-American athletes. [...]

By | June 6th, 2015|7 Comments

What LeBron James said — was it nasty?

This is the controversial statement LeBron James made after the Heat got beat by the Mavs: "All the people that was rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up [...]

By | June 14th, 2011|0 Comments

The difference between Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James — it’s all in a name

I wrote my Tuesday column about the rise of Dirk Nowitzki and the fall of LeBron James -- and  believe me LeBron James had quite a fall in the finals against the Dallas Mavericks. He could not deliver. When a guy makes an entrance like that -- a TV special [...]

By | June 13th, 2011|7 Comments

Mavericks win

I'm sitting here at the Giants game but I've been cheating and watching the Mavs beat the Heat on a pressbox TV. Good for Dallas. I began rooting for them -- rare for me to root -- after Wade and James made fun of Nowitzki's flu. They pretended to have [...]

By | June 12th, 2011|20 Comments

LeBron James speaks before Warriors game

Here are selected pregame quotes from Heat coach Erik Spoelstra and LeBron James. I’ll be back at you later. Erik Spoelstra: It was everything coming down on us at once, not having success, all the media all the speculation, everything what we learned was we weren’t going to blame each [...]

By | December 10th, 2010|10 Comments

Is LeBron J a coward?

Maybe by now you've seen the open letter to the Cleveland Cavs fans by majority owner Dan Gilbert. In the letter Gilbert blasts LeBron James who will leave the Cavs to play for Miami. Among other things Gilbert called James' move to the Heat "a cowardly betrayal." He referred to [...]

By | July 9th, 2010|11 Comments

LeBron James and the 3rd person

After LeBron James did that "Decision" TV show extravaganza, someone burned one of his jerseys on one of Cleveland's streets. I read that James responded thus: "I can't get involved in that. I wanted to do what was best for LeBron James." That makes James the one millionth athlete to [...]

By | July 9th, 2010|3 Comments

LeBron James’ ego is huge

Stop the presses. Oh, that's not enough. Stop the world. On Thursday night, LeBron James is having a TV show to announce which team he will play for next season. He is buying an hour's time on ESPN to make this monumental announcement. And the world waits. All power to [...]

By | July 7th, 2010|13 Comments