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Bill Simmons Talks About Porn Star Encounter at LA Book Signing

Bill Simmons has gone from humble Boston-area blogger to the voice of ESPN.com in about a decade. And now his second book, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy, is atop the New York Times bestseller list. He appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier this week (Simmons briefly left ESPN to write for...

Sports Greats Past and Present Get Together for a Great Cause

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. For the past nine years the Harold Pump Foundation, created by David and Dana Pump (known as the gurus of high school and college basketball) has raised over $3.5 million dollars to fight...

Lance Stephenson Has Really Limited Choices

Lance Stephenson is one of the top high school players in the country. He was a McDonald's All-American. He is also just about the only major recruit not running screaming from the rubble of USC that is without a college destination.Where once he seemed headed for Kansas, that door has closed. Arizona opted against wanting...

Bad Boys Return to Honor Chuck Daly

TEQUESTA, Fla. -- This looked like a Bad Boys reunion.The NBA came from around the country Wednesday to celebrate the life and mourn the death of Chuck Daly, but nothing was more impressive than his collection of pallbearers.It was the nucleus of his two championship teams in Detroit, the ones that transformed him from...

Isiah Goes Small Time for Last Chance

Isiah Thomas once cornered me in a hallway and issued a warning, mob-boss-like. "If you squeeze me again, you'll be sorry," he said. I'm not certain what warranted the threat -- and it's nice to know I haven't awakened to a horse's head in my bed -- but it was a classic snapshot of what King Isiah was like when he ruled...

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Rick Pitino's Son Will Replace Isiah At FIU

He could remain part of his father's coaching staff at Louisville and aim at returning to the Final Four next season, or take over a program that hasn't posted a winning record since he was a teenager.

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05/27/12 Chicago Bulls: Is It a Good Idea for Isiah Thomas to... Source: Bleacher Report According to Scott Powers of ESPNChicago , Isiah Thomas is planning on reaching out to Derrick Rose.
05/24/12 But he won't share it with Isiah Source: New York Post - New York NY Mike Woodson has been linked to a handful of great defensive coaches, learning in college from Indiana's Bobby Knight, as a rookie forward from Knicks legend Red Holzman and as a defensive assistant in winning an NBA championship with Hall of Famer Larry Brown in Detroit.
05/15/12 Isiah Thomas' file does not give a cause for firing... Source: Miami Herald - Miami FL FIU never has given an official reason for firing Isiah Thomas as men's basketball coach in April.
04/22/12 TAKE TWO: Jordan gets the better of Thomas as worst... Source: Columbia Tribune - Columbia MO It is widely believed that Michael Jordan conspired to keep Isiah Thomas off the USA Dream Team that won Olympic basketball gold in 1992.
04/19/12 Isiah Thomas firing still roiling FIU menï¿½s... Source: South Florida Times - Fort Lauderdale FL Florida International University has hired Richard Pitino as the seventh head coach in the history of the schoolï¿½s men's basketball program.