THE NBA HAS A CONFERENCE PROBLEM, AND IT HAS AFFECTED THE PLAYOFFS IN A MAJOR WAY IN RECENT YEARS. USA TODAY SPORTS SPOKE WITH EVERYONE FROM ADAM SILVER TO JERRY WEST ABOUT A BASIC IDEA: IGNORE CONFERENCES AND LET THE 16 BEST TEAMS PLAY.
A better way?
A SIMPLE, LOGICAL CHANGE COULD MAKE PLAYOFFS MORE INTERESTING
Enticing cross-conference NBA playoff matchups capture the imagination, presenting the idea of a fair and just basketball world in which only the best of the best are welcome.
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Lauren Hill on a Wheaties box.
(Photo: Facebook/Layup4Lauren)
Already a champion, Lauren Hill joined the ranks of esteemed athletes by being featured on her own Wheaties box.
In another achievement in an already incredible week, Hill was named Women’s Basketball Player of the Week in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Of course, all of that likely pales in comparison to sinking her opening layup against Hiram Sunday.
Here’s more on Hill’s Player of the Week award:
RG3 had to wear his “Know Jesus, Know Peace” t-shirt inside out at the Redskins’ press conference. (Twitter/ @WSHHFunny_)
Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III was reportedly told by an NFL uniform inspector not to wear his “Know Jesus, Know Peace” t-shirt before Sunday’s postgame press conference.
Michael Phillips, the Redskins reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, posted on Twitter that Griffin was told he couldn’t wear the t-shirt because it wasn’t a Nike product.
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Calling for understanding in the face of racially charged anger, President Barack Obama said Monday that the vast majority of protesters in a St. Louis suburb were peaceful, but warned that a small minority was undermining justice for the unarmed black man shot and killed by police.
During a brief pause in his summer vacation, Obama expressed sympathy for the “passions and anger” sparked by the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, but said giving in to that anger through
