Will off-season moves amount to much? (Fox Sports)
With NBA training camps under way, now's a good time to project how the off-season moves will pan out. Randy Hill takes his best shot. ...more...Among shooting guards, Bryant is best (Fox Sports)
T-Mac is tough. D-Wade is dynamic. Manu's the man. But when it comes to ranking shooting guards, Mike Kahn says Kobe is king. ...more... For them, Rome not a holiday (Boston Globe)
While enjoying a tour of the Vatican museum Wednesday afternoon, ex-NBA player Donny Marshall recalled how he entered training camp without a guaranteed contract on two occasions. Once he made it, once he got cut....more... Lakers, Warriors open up camps (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
The Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors opened their training camps on Oahu yesterday to divergent receptions....more... Dalembert, Randolph battle injuries again (The News Journal)
DURHAM, N.C. -- Sixers big men Samuel Dalembert and Shavlik Randolph have gone through adversity inside Cameron Indoor Stadium before....more... Sports Digest (Austin American-Statesman)
Tina Thompson scored 18 points to help the United States qualify for the 2008 Beijing Games with a 101-71 victory over Cuba on Sunday in the gold medal game at the FIBA Americas tournament in Chile....more... SPORTS BRIEFS (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
VALDIVIA, Chile -- The U.S. women's basketball team took a rarely-used route to get back to the Olympics. Tina Thompson scored 18 points to help the U.S. qualify for the 2008 Beijing Games with a 101-71 victory over Cuba yesterday in the gold medal game at the FIBA Americas tournament. "It feels great to win. We got the monkey off our back," Thompson said....more... Sports in Brief | U.S. coach undecided on goalie (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
U.S. soccer coach Greg Ryan was mum on who will start in goal against Norway in tomorrow's third-place game at the Women's World Cup in Shanghai, China....more... Sixers hoping change from within works (The Morning Call)
They didn't land any big names, so players have to rise to occasion. The Celtics added Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen....more... |