NBA basketball

Amid all the Olympic hockey hoopla (which has me somewhere between “walking on sunshine” and “Mom made pizza rolls”), Americans still have one sport in the thick of its season. The NBA All-Star Game was…

MIAMI (AP) – The only thing that keeps LeBron James up worrying at night is basketball, which simultaneously makes perfect sense and no sense. On one hand, he’s the game’s best player. On the other,…

Pro basketball has hit the ground running this year, but unfortunately the race is already over for a few teams. What started with such promise has evaporated in Chicago, and the New York metropolitan area…

Amid all the action on the gridiron, diamond and rink, one sport has been missing. Only one game wasn’t active, as if one seat remained open at a high-stakes poker table (which should be a…

It takes a real professional to write this column. Not because I’m strongly encouraging the citizens of St. Louis to join the pro basketball bandwagon (there’s plenty of room aboard!), but I am actually going…

Last night’s win over Arizona was big on a couple of fronts for the Cardinals. After losing two in a row – and with a three-game series in Cincinnati coming up – the Redbirds were…

Imagine my conflicting thoughts going into Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals. On one hand, a Miami victory would give me an extra couple days to write a detailed preview of the NBA Finals.…

Last week, I shared my thoughts on why the NBA playoffs are worth watching while providing a fundamental breakdown of the four (now three, as Memphis decided to hit the links early) teams remaining. Now…

St. Louis has many proud possessions that it can claim. It boasts the world-renowned Arch, one of the best zoos in America, and John Goodman (“Shut up, Donny.”). One thing it does not have is…