(ThyBlackMan.com) By mid summer NBA fans from all over the world will have to find a new bad guy to jeer because Lebron James, like it or not, will be a league champion. The Miami Heat are up three games to one over the Oklahoma City Thunder and as every ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in Chevez Ravine on April 18, 1958, nineteen years before I was born in Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn. That being said I have never actually had a “hometown team” to follow. Growing up in New York City I had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While David Stern was being massaged by Michael Wilbon at halftime of game three of the NBA Finals on Sunday night I switched channels to watch the Cubs host the Boston Red Sox. Wrigley Field was packed as usual and despite both teams being under .500 and the game ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder are currently doing battle in the NBA Finals and the entire world seems to have an opinion on who is going to win. Is Lebron James is going to close or not close? Is Russell Westbrook a true enough point guard to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere down in Oklahoma, a band of dream killers are on the loose, led by Coach Scott Brooks, but features “three amigos.” These same ‘Amigos’ have destroyed the Lakers dream of capturing another NBA championship, hereby removing them from contention in the ‘Wild Wild West’ 2012 playoffs. The victory was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was saddened to read about the fake suicide attempt by Terricka Cason Cromartie, wife of NFL star Antonio Cromartie. Mr. Cromartie is known as much for the many places his sex organs have traveled as he is for his prowess on the football field. By having 8 kids ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The battle for Los Angeles has begun. After years of mediocrity and playing second fiddle to the LA Lakers, nowadays the Los Angeles Clippers have their eyes on destiny. After finishing off Memphis 82-72 in regulation led by All Star point guard Chris Paul, the Clippers look like a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me start this off by saying that my favorite fighter is Miguel Cotto and has been for some time. So if you refer to me as a “Floydiot” in your comments, you clearly haven’t read this column in its entirety. With that being said, The Grinch Who Stole ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the day of athletes being rewarded with commercial endorsements, endless bling, fancy mansions and fast cars, it is a breath of fresh air to see black athletes doing more than running a ball. Shaquille O’Neal is known for his skills on the basketball court. O’Neal played three years ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From Jackie Robinson to Jeremy Lin NY sports have always had its pulse on America’s potential. Love it or hate it, so has NY media. Combine them and you get something beautiful. Embarrass them and you come up with something ugly. My first example of the latter is a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everybody looks toward Miami Heat’s “Mr. Everything” Lebron James for playoff answers in 2012. No surprise there. As history records it, King James was defeated in last years NBA finals by the Dallas Mavericks. The ‘King’ came in second. No cigar there. People started questioning basketball royalty. Here’s the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new “urban” home — why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment? Why ...