First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...didn't see it, he was sitting with the mayor of Los Angeles, the owner of the Dodgers, and Tommy Lasorda for Game 2 of the NLCS. When the camera found him, Kobe made an...
Blog | October 21, 2009First Cup: Monday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...ve wasted your time. Iverson is Manny Ramirez when he went from the Red Sox to the Dodgers: A great talent who some teams -- many teams, actually -- would consider more trouble than he's...
Blog | August 24, 2009First Cup: Thursday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...about five months ago. Replace Ramirez with Lamar Odom, replace agent Scott Boras with agent Jeff Schwartz, Dodgers with Lakers ... and continue with the story. It all seems rather dramatic right now, with Lakers owner...
Blog | July 16, 2009The Larger Bowl of Candy
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...is a prince of a guy and probably the most media-friendly athlete in Los Angeles (though Dodgers second baseman Orlando Hudson might give him a run for his money this season). The candy mishegass...
Blog | June 03, 2009Wednesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopJaime from Basketball.org makes a point that makes you think and maybe protest a little (how good would the Celtics be with Garnett but without Paul P...
Blog | April 22, 2009The Inauguration of the TrueHoop Network
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopToday is about change. Mainly, change at the top of the United States of America's org chart. But there's one other little change I am pleased...
Blog | January 20, 2009First Cup: Friday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopMike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times: "With all the recent talk about Andrew Bynum's contract status, little attention has been paid to Kobe Bryant...
Blog | October 24, 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, 2008Venti First Cup: Wednesday
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopSuns vs. Spurs Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News: "Officially, the Spurs will fly to Phoenix on Thursday, and they might even lose a g...
Blog | April 23, 2008NBA Bigwigs Rave About Oklahoma City, Talk Replacement Team for Seattle
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopThe powers that be -- a collection of NBA owners and league personnel -- have been touring Oklahoma City to assess the city's readiness to receive an ...
Blog | March 26, 2008The Boys of 2010
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...Brooklyn -- where millions of sports fans have been waiting for something to get excited about since the Dodgers left. Plenty of shots for a primary scorer. It's still more than two years away. But...
Blog | February 14, 2008Predictably, Sonic Ownership Backtracks
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopWhen word spread that a minority owner of the Seattle SuperSonics had admitted on the record that the owners never intended to keep the team in Seattl...
Blog | August 14, 2007Young Athletes Coming Out of the Closet
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...from the team. Like Kopay, others waited until retirement to come out. In baseball, there were former Dodgers Glenn Burke and Billy Bean; in football, Roy Simmons of the Washington Redskins and, five years ago...
Blog | August 03, 2007Wednesday Bullets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoopBrandon Roy is a very friendly guy. But when you put 16 of his head shots together in one place, it somehow seems less friendly. Bill Simmons chooses...
Blog | April 18, 2007Brooklyn Will Go Insane for the Nets
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...about how great it is to have Brooklyn’s first real professional team since the Brooklyn Dodgers. The talk centers on who will benefit from the team’s economic presence and who will...
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