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Sideshow Star Sidelines as Bloomingdale's Santa

By Marc HartzmanDec 20th 2010 – 7:19AM
Courtesy of Scott Baker

Courtesy of Scott Baker

(Dec. 20) -- Jolly as he may be, small children are often terrified of Santa. So it's a good thing New York City sideshow performer Scott Baker doesn't eat glass or hammer nails in his nose during his gig as the Bloomingdale's Saint Nick. Baker, 62, is a trained Broadway actor and magician who's known as the Twisted...

Dwight Howard: Media Has 'Given the Heat the Trophy for the Next 12 Years'

By Tom LorenzoSep 23rd 2010 – 6:53PM

NEW YORK -- Dwight Howard understands exactly why the media is so intrigued by the Miami Heat's summer shopping spree, and it doesn't seem to bother him one bit. I had a chance to sit down with Howard on Thursday afternoon as EA Sports unveiled both their NBA ELITE 11 and NBA JAM video games in New York, and asked Howard...

Court Vision: Week 11 -- Are the Raptors Still a Favorable Matchup?

By Tom LorenzoJan 3rd 2010 – 2:00PM

Court Vision is a breakdown of the weekly schedule to help you set your fantasy lineup. Sometimes the numbers can be a bit misleading. If you look at who the top defensive teams in the league were over the past week you'll see one squad that hadn't played a lick of defense at all in the first two month of the season, the...

Lakers Have Clearest Path to NBA Finals

By Matt SteinmetzNov 29th 2009 – 4:30PM

Advantage: Lakers. There's a little something that has come to light through the NBA's first month, and even though the season is a long one, it's tough to see it changing by June. The Lakers' path to the Finals will be a lot less treacherous than whichever team they end up playing for the title. And it might become one...

Background on magic

Magic is the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature.

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