Reflections on the NBA season so far and what is to come in the playoff stretch.
NBA Mid-Season Highs and Lows
Up to now, NBA articles have been conspicuously missing on Deep Into Sports for the 2009-2010.
I’ll admit it: the NBA is my least favorite of the Big Four sports leagues. I like the sport of [...]

Considering how Deep Into Sports has recently been criticizing the plague of poor calls by umpires during the 2009 Major League Baseball playoffs (both in comments and in Gairzo’s article, “Umpires”), I thought our readers would be interested in checking out the excerpts from Tim Donaghy’s hitherto unpublished book, Blowing the Whistle, on deadspin.com (if [...]

I was a very lucky kid.
When I was 10 years old, my Old Man built a 60 foot two-hooped basketball court in our back yard. My parents had a feeling I might be difficult to handle—I can’t imagine what gave them that idea—and this was their ingenious way of keeping me close [...]

Several months ago I commented upon a Yahoo! Sports article on Hasheem Thabeet and his importance to his native Tanzania, an article which really hit home for me having lived in that country two years myself.
It may not have quite the personal connotations for me, but Yahoo! has done it again with Todd Pitman’s piece [...]

The Lakers’ victory parade is today, at a cost of $2 million. Half of that is to be covered by the Lakers organization; the other half by the city.
Although a certain hardcore Lake Show fanatics couldn’t care less from where the money came, another sizable percentage of Los Angeles residents–Lakers fans among them–were understandably [...]

Coming into the postseason, the smart money in NBA Betting was on a Lakers – Cavaliers showdown in the NBA Finals.
As the Conference Finals progress, that inevitability is appearing less and less certain, with each game in both the East and the West being extremely hard-fought and evenly matched.
Of course, any time a heavy favorite [...]

It’s not baseball season yet.
An item in the current issue of Sports Illustrated begs for a second-look at the subject of college basketball.
In an essay about his book When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball, Seth Davis, also a featured commentator on CBS’ college basketball coverage during the season and the tournament, writes [...]

What a game of identity – Michigan State had four starters from Michigan, one from Ohio, while North Carolina didn’t have a player from in-state or near it in the starting lineup. Tom Izzo is well-identified as Michigan State’s coach; Roy Williams, as much as we try, still feels like Kansas’s coach on the wrong sideline.
Identity is [...]

It’s official, is there a sports team in the country that puts their fans through more tribulation than the Gonzaga University basketball team?
Gonzaga fans felt their loyalty tested again with another embarrassing exit from the NCAA tournament, in the latest instance in a history of high-profile losses featuring undisciplined play.
Gonzaga’s Friday night matchup against North [...]

Anyone recall what I said a month ago about Villanova and Big East Dominance? Sheesh! The ACC is supposed to be the second-best conference and the Wildcats manhandled the Blue Devils. When I wrote that article in February, ‘Nova was dominating Syracuse, but in the last month the Orange have become dramatically [...]