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Max contracts don't always buy happiness 

By Sean Deveney

The Sporting News

If you use the formula laid out in the NBA's collective bargaining agreement, there are...

Tremors: you thought draft night shook things up? It was nothing compared with what could happen in the next few weeks 

Arguably, no one was more prepared for last week's NBA draft than Celtics boss Danny Ainge, who entered the pick-a-thon with the No. 7 choice. He...

Summer love: for one long, sunny night every year, Fairbanks, Alaska, is the baseball capital of America 

Fairbanks, Alaska, requires toughness. Living on the 65th parallel, you don't exactly spend time thinking about how the petunias are coming along....

Playground basketball: much of what Miami's Dwyane Wade needed to know about playing in The Finals—and much of what Dallas' Avery Johnson needed to know about coaching in them—was learned on the blacktop 

Here we are, at the culmination of the NBA Finals, a matchup of a handful of the best basketball players in the world, and somehow the lofty talk...

It's the big time: easy money! Glamour! Free tickets and travel! It's all there for the taking when you become an NBA agent, right? Um, not so much 

SO, you wanna be an NBA agent? Why not, right? Face it, Skippy, there comes a time when you realize that, no matter how scrappy you may be, you're...

The 'tween year: no positions necessary: some of the best players in these Finals don't fit the mold 

Three years ago last January, Jason Terry sat near his locker at Philips Arena in Atlanta and shrugged his shoulders. He was in the middle of his...

A lucky bounce: the Raptors defied the odds in claiming the No. 1 pick in the draft. The question now is what they'll do with it 

So, this must be why Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo decided to trade in his tanning lotion and golf clubs in Phoenix for the parkas and...

The most hated man in America 

You know something is amiss when you enter a ballpark and hand your ticket to the elderly lady with a face like apple pie, only to have her look at...

Bury with care: even in an unpredictable postseason, it's dangerous to start throwing dirt on the Pistons before they're good and gone 

Lindsey Hunter, a reserve guard for the Pistons, gave a bit of a smirk and turned the tables by lobbing a question at a reporter. "Did you bury...

Can't get no satisfaction: despite eye-popping numbers and new leadership responsibilities, there still is one person not impressed with Albert Pujols' historic start. Yeah, that would be Pujols himself 

Truth is, Albert Pujols just can't take a compliment. Toss aside every stunning feat, every head-scratching chapter of the prodigious Pujols...