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Paul Forrester: Cavs' Brown smiles through NBA's toughest task

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:41:29 EST

Cavaliers coach Mike Brown is a nice, honest guy. He answers questions thoughtfully and genuinely, he looks reporters in the eye and he doesn't run his team by fiat.

Ian Thomsen: With youthful outlook and game, Nash still defies his age

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:23:21 EST

Steve Nash is the grandfather who dances every dance at the family wedding. He is the millionaire who keeps showing up to work because he loves what he does. At 35, he continues to play like -- and get the best of -- the youngest point guards in the world's finest league.

Paul Daugherty: Lewis won't allow Bengals to rest on success

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:33:04 EST

After seven seasons in Cincinnati, Marvin Lewis finally has a team he can wrap his identity around. Lewis is from southwestern Pennsylvania, more precisely a steel and coal place called McDonald, same as Marty Schottenheimer and very close to Bill Cowher's Carlynton and Mike Ditka's Aliquippa.

Bryan Armen Graham: Q&A with famed trainer Roach

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:18:06 EST

Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach is one of boxing's most respected minds. The three-time BWAA Trainer of the Year owns and operates the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, Calif., where he's passed down fistic wisdom to more than 20 world titlists, including sitting pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao.

The Bonus: Konchalski cements legacy as evaluator, great mind

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:54:44 EST

Others tell you where they've been. We tell you where they're going! -- High School Basketball Illustrated mission statement

Jon Wertheim: Doubles teams headline Hall of Fame ballot

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:35:14 EST

We'll start this week with two open calls. I received my ballot for the 2010 inductions to the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Doubles is the theme this year and the nominees are Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva (as a team), Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge (as a team), and Anders Jarryd (individually).

Aditi Kinkhabwala: After overcoming odds, South Florida LB Wilson long shot no more

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:01:37 EST

Kion Wilson hasn't run a cross-country race in four years.

Joe Posnanski: This year's Gold Glove ripoff (and it has nothing to do with Derek Jeter)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:11 EST

There is little doubt that you are expecting me to follow up that headline by writing about Derek Jeter. But ... no.*

Ross Tucker: Four NFL coaches unfairly on the hot seat

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:17:07 EST

With at least eight games in the book for every NFL team, here's a trend that has caught my eye: I can't remember a year in which the calls for so many coaches to be fired began so early. Or a year in which so many solid head coaches were placed on the hot seat simply because their teams got off to subpar starts.

Frank Deford: Brett Favre should never say bye to NFL

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:38:20 EST

As a public service, since Brett Favre did not play this past weekend, I thought it was my duty to talk to you about him. It just wouldn't seem right to have a whole week go by without allowing sport America to have its obligatory Brett Favre discussion.