Here is the opening to my Thursday column from the Warriors-Heat game: OAKLAND Pardon me for committing heresy on Wednesday. What was my heresy? I didn’t write about Colin Kaepernick’s Little League coach or Jim Harbaugh’s haircut or Jed York’s seventh-grade history teacher. In short, I didn’t write about 49ers’ [...]
I'm picking the Heat in 6 games. I figure they're too talented for the Mavericks. The Mavericks are great at zipping the ball around and finding the open shooter -- lots of open 3-pointers for the Mavs. I think the Heat can stop that ball movement and I don't think [...]
I covered the Heat/Warriors game Friday night and I noticed how the crowd relentlessly booed LeBron James and generally hated the Heat. On the other hand, the game was a sellout. People think the Heat are villains but they're eager to see them. I don't think the Heat are villains. [...]
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 [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.