According to numerous sources via Twitter, LeBron James will win NBA 2012 MVP award. The social media and basketball star joins elite company becoming just the eighth player in NBA history to win the award three times. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Moses Malone are the only…Read the Rest…

On Wednesday Dwayne Wade said that NBA players should be paid for their participation in the Olympics. The backlash was as swift as it was predictable, which just as predictably led to Wade backtracking on his statements. And why it’s easy to see why people take issue with this statement, when you actually think about…Read the Rest…

Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen has been suspended by the team for telling Time Magazine that he “loves” Fidel Castro. Below is Guillen’s quote as it appeared in the online edition of the magazine: “I love Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60…Read the Rest…

The Germans are such a scornful people that they had to create a word that means deriving pleasure from another’s misfortune: Schadenfreude. I have very little German in my blood, but I fully embrace the concept of schadenfreude. Today I find myself full of it, basking in the glow of the news that Isiah Thomas…Read the Rest…