This is Grant on basketball. The Miami Heat are going to win the NBA Finals. I’ve seen enough, I’m ready to call it. They’re going to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games. I feel this way because both teams proved themselves yesterday, winning tough games on the road, [...]
This comment from Grant just now as we stood at the stove making pasta sauce for tonight's dinner -- I'm thinking a Chianti go go with it. Grant: "You know what? The Lakers are Shane Mosley." I knew what.
Iggy just showed me a commentary basketball player Grant Hill wrote for the New York Times -- published today. In it Hill takes on Jalen Rose who said some incendiary things about Hill and Duke in an espn documentary. Hill, God love him, expresses his love of education which, in [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Game 7 between the Lakers and Celtics was a crummy game and it was one hell of a game. Do you agree? It was crummy because neither team could score very well -- especially Boston. It was one hell of a game because both teams played great hard defense, something [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.