Former Detroit Pistons/Chicago Bulls/Torpan Pojat power forward and Pro Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman was in Bulgaria this weekend to help that nation’s league celebrate its all-star break and oh yes, he left his mark. Ireland-based The Score reported somewhat hyperbolically that the appearance was part of a full-on comeback to the game by the financially-troubled Rodman, but such [...]
How do you say “Here comes the Worm” in Bulgarian? Folks in Sofia may just be needing that expression as the Hall of Fame NBA rebound master Dennis Rodman touched down in Bulgaria’s capital last night. Bulgaria-based Novinite quoted Rodman as stating “I learned a bit about your country on the internet. Your women are very beautiful.” (Naturally, BallinEurope wonders [...]
I didn’t come to the Balibago district of Angeles city for the hostess clubs, or the girlfriend karaoke, or the “fun balls” they’re selling at the hotel bar. If I’m staying the night in the sex-tourism capital of the Philippines, if my deluxe suite has a ruby-tinted bulb above the mattress, if a strange woman keeps pawing at my nice [...]
Sport lends itself to the romantic. That much is true, and it was true long before legendary talents turned sportswriters into scribes of myths, before Robert Redford ever swung a bat, and before the imagination of a daydreaming kid allowed him to fill the gaps in the life of his favorite athlete. We sports fans find allegory or create it. [...]
I was 11 when I first decided to give the game of basketball a chance. I wasn’t very inspired and wasn’t very good. I played mostly in the Ridgewood Dorm basketball court in my boarding school, a court that had some of the most unique dimensions I have ever experienced: two nine-and-half-feet high baskets, separated on a not-so-straight open court, [...]
Earlier this week, there was a bit of a letdown when we learned that Dennis Rodman would be on his best behavior during his Hall of Fame ceremony. But fear not, the event will not be a bore. It will be featuring Dennis Rodman after all, as the headliner no less. The eccentric Hall of Famer tells the Miami Herald [...]
Retired NBA rebounding legend and this year’s Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee candidate Dennis “The Worm” Rodman will be honored by his former team, the Detroit Pistons. The Detroit Pistons, whom Rodman had helped win 2 NBA Championships during the latter eighties, will have his No. 10 jersey retired on April 1 during a halftime ceremony in their matchup [...]
In the prestigious world of the National Basketball Association, players who are instantly turned into millionaires will get their share of the fans’ adoration or the haters’ wrath, depending on how he was perceived by the public. Unfortunately, in this world, there are times that what we see are not what they really are. Perception is not always reality. Let [...]
The New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson has been around the NBA since the latter eighties, both as a player and as a coach. Having played for 6 NBA teams (all Western Conference), Johnson has seen many great players with great rebounding skills come and go. He was best known as a member of the San Antonio Spurs and [...]
Contrary to what was initially reported, Dennis Rodman didn’t have any involvement in the creation of a Facebook account that is campaigning for his induction to next year’s Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Bones Palanca, the page administrator of the Dennis Rodman Hall of Fame 2011 “Campaign” in Facebook, posted that “this campaign was created way back in August [...]
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