THOMPSON’S TAKE: LEBRON IN LA IS FASHION FORWARD
The latest from the colored pens of Jim Thompson, on how Nike might want to plan for LeBron James’ changing the Lakers’ chemistry: Read more
The latest from the colored pens of Jim Thompson, on how Nike might want to plan for LeBron James’ changing the Lakers’ chemistry: Read more
The Drill 07.09.18: There is never enough LeBron James’ business to sift through on the day he officially signs his Lakers contract. Read more
Today’s guest Anthony Pignataro is fresh off a career stop at MauiTime for the last 15 years, back in California as a freelance journalist. Also an author of a series of noirish novels set on Maui, Pignataro allowed us to pick his brain about …. Read more
By Tom Hoffarth
You’re still not 100 percent sure of what motivates LeBron James to pick the Lakers — and Los Angeles — as his next adventure.
Here’s an Associated Press story that helps explain. Read more
The Drill 07.02.18: And then, LeBron James became a Laker, and L.A. lived happily ever after. Read more
The latest nothingness about LeBron James news is nothing that a stiff cup of Carson-based truckers’ high-octane coffee can’t cure. Tom Hoffarth, Steve Lowery, Jon McKelvy, plus interns Elizabeth and Nicole, try to make sense of how journalists try to stay journalistic in the wake of rumor mongering about the NBA free-agent period, plus an extended “Two Minute Business Drill” that covers how LeBron will make his decision, the Disney-Fox merger details, and what makes a Hall of Fame selection.
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By Steve Lowery
They say that numbers don’t lie. Then again, Mark Twain, who is way smarter then They, said there are “Lies, damn lies and statistics.”
As this terrific piece by David Fleming for ESPN The Magazine makes clear, even those numbers we take as gospel — Kevin Durant is 7-feet tall, for instance — are actually completely open to interruption and general fudging. Read more
By Tom Hoffarth
Ugly is in the ire of the beholder.
And uniformly, Todd Radom has a laundry list of targets he can reference when sorting out Major League Baseball’s history on this dirty subject. Read more
Jim Thompson (aka @JimmySportTunes), the long-time sports illustrator/political cartoonist/bronze sculpture and part of The Drill Team as a valuable contributor, came into the studio for this special edition vodcast/interview/exchange on the news of the day and show us some of his most prized pieces of art (also showing on www.thompsonsportsart.com). Read more
Who in their right mind would get into the mental performance business with an athlete today?
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