AS BAD AS GAME WAS, BULLS WERE WORSE
This one was a game for the ages. Stone, I think. The resemblance to actual basketball was inadvertent, as it was to any endeavor that requires style and spirit and...
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LITTLE MAN STEALS A LITTLE OF JORDAN’S THUNDER
Opinion contends that the Bulls have been disappointingly tedious so far in the playoffs, that all the good tales are elsewhere. You know, out west, down south, hanging onto Alonzo...
RODMAN LEAVES MASON IN NEED OF A DICTIONARY
The game is won. The point is made. Actually 83 points are made. Dennis Rodman has two fouls left and Anthony Mason is off his feet, his ribs exposed. The...
CROSSTOWN SLUGGERS’ TOUR BECOMES BIG FLOP
Sorry, Ernie. What a crummy day for baseball. Let's play none. And I caught the early plane back from Newark for this. A columnist's whim, like the last thought before...
BULLS HOLD GARDEN PARTY OF ANOTHER SORT
Michael Jordan's fadeaway jump shot comes with sound effects, courtesy of New Jersey coach John Calipari. "Boom, da bang, da bing," Calipari said, a few noises short. To do him...
STRINGS ATTACHED TO THIS FIRING
Major news from the Blackhawks would be one of two things. Brett Hull is hired. Chris Chelios is fired. Everything else is just playing paper dolls. Of absolutely no concern...
GASP-O-METER: DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME
The technical name is the Gasp-O-Meter. Here's how it works. Late in Bulls games--and late is getting earlier all the time--the Bulls must be ahead in order to win. This...
BULLS OPEN WINDOW TO THEIR OWN MORTALITY
Vulnerability lurks in creaking legs and wandering minds, in Dennis Rodman's whims and Michael Jordan's myth, in Toni Kukoc's psyche and Scottie Pippen's free throws, in Phil Jackson's karma. With...
MAKING LAST DANCE LAST
As an image, it is as good as any. The Last Dance. Every one seems to agree that Phil Jackson has it right, though exactly which kind of dance is...
HOW CAN WE MORTALS BID NO. 23 GOODBYE?
How to say goodbye to Michael. What a vexing conundrum. Surely the greatest force of nature in our time will not be allowed, like MacArthur's old soldier, to just fade...