Sam Smith

Maybe I'm just a big tease after all, though balding at about 5 feet 9 inches and wearing glasses when I can find them, you shouldn't get the wrong idea....

Finally, an exhibition game to get excited about. Is it possible Shawn Marion and Andrei Kirilenko will be traded for one another at halftime Monday when the Jazz plays the...

Even I don't have the answer for this one. And we all know how rare that is. Figure this is what it takes to get Kobe Bryant from the Lakers:...

Well, the Cubs are done and the Bears still are under .500. Yes, the NBA season is about to get under way, and from here, the Bulls look pretty good....

Ben Gordon was born in London, and when his parents split up he moved with his mother to Mt. Vernon, N.Y. He was raised in modest surroundings with a sister,...

Phil Jackson sat sipping his favorite soft drink, the Arnold Palmer mixture of lemonade and iced tea. Jackson's cane, the one he uses as he recuperates from a second hip-replacement...

You hear that an art gallery is going to feature the paintings of Johnny Bach, and the first thought is Dobermans. It has to be Dobermans, Bach being the basketball...

Bill Walton slid off the towering seat on his bicycle, which he rides 50 to 100 miles each day for exercise, to contemplate the injustice of it all. Walton, the...

Phil Jackson, in his comments on his induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame here Friday, called on the keepers of the game of basketball to consider radical changes...

Jeanie Buss, his girlfriend, will be there, and so will ex-wife June. His kids and their significant others will be there, along with his grandkids, another group of 13. His...