By J.A. Adande ESPN.com Expect Olympic teammates Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard to meet at the rim more than once. Supposedly last year taught me a lesson: Unlike the message in those mutual fund warnings, past results in the NBA are indicative of future results. In particular, we saw in the 2008 NBA Finals that [...]
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(CNN) — When Don Imus denigrated in clearly racist terms the championship women’s basketball team from Rutgers University; when actor Michael Richards screamed at black guests in a comedy club, calling them the “n-word” and invoking the threat of lynching; when Trent Lott said that things would have been better if a southern segregationist had [...]
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Jonathan Curiel, Chronicle Staff Writer Drama. Starring Nicole Beharie, Will Patton, Tim Blake Nelson, Alfre Woodard, Michael O’Keefe, Charles S. Dutton, Xzibit and Malcolm Barrett. Directed by Tim Disney. Written and produced by Bill Haney. (PG-13. 102 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) These are the facts: An African American woman in a small Texas town [...]
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The R.E.D. Album, the follow-up to the Game’s intermittently great 2008 disc L.A.X., isn’t out until the winter, but the proud Comptonite has gifted us early: “Bang Along,” which leaked today, is the audio equivalent of a breezy SoCal joyride (and, if we had an in with the programming director at Z100, a legitimate song of the summer contender).
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As soon as Obama was elected, there were questions about whether his plan to appoint a so-called “team of rivals” to key foreign-policy positions would lead to chaos and derail his agenda. Indeed, many of the strong-willed and sharp-elbowed officials at the top of the administration are more hawkish than the president himself…
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BY Brian Kates DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Disgraced NFL star Michael Vick has been released from federal prison after 18 months behind bars for his role in a brutal dogfighting operation. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback was released at dawn Wednesday from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kans., and will return to his home in [...]
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If this movie were a museum exhibit — you know, a hologram where kids can watch paintings and sculptures come to life — it’d be great fun for about five or 10 minutes. But Night At the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian drags on for a punishing 104 minutes. The money shots of the living [...]
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