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Turkey's best basketball, marred by violence, again
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBy Henry Abbott Turkey is home to some of the world's best professional basketball. Two days ago, for instance, rivals Galatasaray and Fenerbahce squared off, and the court was littered with...
Blog | November 17, 2009Wednesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...that's made him a Hall-0f-famer. (Worth noting: A Hall-of-Famer AS A BASKETBALL PLAYER, NOT A VARIETY SHOW HOST.)" Chris Sheridan says these young women are just a good...
Blog | August 19, 2009Brandon Roy, Hard Times and Guaranteed Contracts
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBrandon Roy Brandon Roy and the Blazers have agreed to a five-year contract extension that'll keep him in black and red through 2013-2014, and a ...
Blog | August 06, 2009Sell the Uniforms Already
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...39;t know why. There is paid logo placement in every single nook and cranny of NBA basketball. I know the NBA isn't against corporate sponsorship, right? (They're already getting big...
Blog | August 03, 2009Coleman Collins on the Merits of Charity Soccer
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...such things as Paris, Monaco, Germany, and Iran, reports now from Chinatown. My two favorite sports are basketball and soccer, for a number of reasons, but the main one is this: they are simple and...
Blog | June 26, 2009Randy Smith: Athlete Turned Baller
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...stop with many scouts. In fact, Smith won national honors for his soccer ability rather than his basketball play. ... During his senior year at Buffalo State, Smith didn't show as well as...
Blog | June 05, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopRay Ratto of the San Francisco Chronicle: "For the moment, though, Monta Ellis is the Warriors. He had to be, for there was no other foreseeable outco...
Blog | July 25, 2008Marc Stein on his Time in the Soccer Spotlight
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopESPN's Marc Stein was at last Thursday's NBA draft. But his heart wasn't. His heart was still in the aftershocks of the emotional earthquake of Wedn...
Blog | June 30, 2008Soccer Stars: Steve Nash, Baron Davis, Thierry Henry and Company
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...as a way to keep his body in top condition while also taking a break from competitive basketball. He still schedules regular shooting sessions in the summertime, but the bulk of Nash's regimen features...
Blog | June 24, 2008First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...were pushing that envelope to its limit yesterday. In their hour of need, they wrote their own basketball bible. And an elderly man shall lead them. P.J. Brown -- 38 years, 7 months and 4...
Blog | May 19, 2008I Dare You Not to Like the Blazers
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopTrust me trust me trust me. Seriously. TRUST me, I KNOW, I blog a lot about the Blazers. Every now and again the comments are thick with people notici...
Blog | January 28, 2008Friday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...t read too much into one bad game: "Why don't we let LeBron James be a basketball player for a night and worry about the icon-building business in the offseason."Everybody wants more...
Blog | June 08, 2007Bad Ass Yellow Knee
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...d like to be able to run the bases, maybe play a lazy half-court game of basketball [I've pretty much given up on soccer]. It hurts to walk to my car. How anyone...
Blog | November 09, 2006Great Athletes Are Born Early in the Year
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...even if he hadn't spent countless hours in the gym, would still have been a better basketball player than most of us. But without those hours in the gym, he would never have become...
Blog | May 08, 2006Professor Chad Ford on Peace and Hoops
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Willamette Law Review Symposium to deliver a lecture I'm interested in called "Peace and Hoops: Basketball as a Role Player in Sustainable Peacebuilding." I think about that a lot. Donn Nelson is...
Blog | March 17, 2006

