We should all be sympathetic to a person's struggles with addiction. We should all celebrate with that person when they get things together and move on to recovery. However, when that person, while a NBA player; was accused of braking a beer mug over someone's head in a bar; shot and killed a man while drunk playing with a shotgun and was convicted of trying to cover it up; made tens of millions of dollars playing NBA basketball but did not pay the child support that he owed to his two daughters, and now you are going to honor him in your collegiate athletic Hall of Fame? St. John's University is out of touch.
Just let the commish run the country
By Marc Stein
Special to ESPN.com
Finally, friends, we have a winner. Or, at the very least, an answer for our Electoral Crisis. A two-word solution, at last, to fix the only mathematical mechanism in creation more convoluted than the NBA salary cap.
Does David Stern, center, really want an L.A.-Philly final?
The two words are . David Stern.
We present David J. Stern as your 43rd president of the United States.
We d like to, anyway. It s a little late for nominations, agreed, but it s safe to say that standard parliamentary procedure isn t exactly working, is it? So why not Stern to run a country that, according to highly placed government sources, is really dragging out the recount because nobody wants either of the actual candidates.
but first we re going to be very direct here because he wants us to be. from first round draft pick to locked-up felon. tonight it s the cnn exclusive. by all accounts jayson williams was a star at the young age of 22, a first round draft pick in 1990. few could rival the 6 10 forward when he was under the net, few people could. it seemed his career had no ceiling, he continued to rocket to higher heights. that was until a game with the atlanta hawks williams collided with stephon marbury and broke his leg. in one moment his entire career on the court was over. his plummet hit depths unknown on valentine s day in 2002. williams was showing off a shotgun to friends in his new jersey mansion. he snapped it shut and it fired. it killed his chauffeur. eight years later he was finally sentenced in that killing. he says his time in prison changed him to his core. and jayson williams joins me now here tonight. how are you doing? thanks for having me, don. first of all, i want to
why some say scientology is to blame for the latest hollywood breakup. but first we re going to be very direct here because he wants us to be. from first round draft pick to locked-up felon. tonight it s the cnn exclusive. by all accounts jayson williams was a star at the young age of 22, a first round draft pick in 1990. few could rival the 6 10 forward when he was under the net, few people could. it seemed his career had no ceiling, he continued to rocket to higher heights. that was until a game with the atlanta hawks williams collided with stephon marbury and broke his leg. in one moment his entire career on the court was over. his plummet hit depths unknown on valentine s day in 2002. williams was showing off a shotgun to friends in his new jersey mansion. he snapped it shut and it fired. it killed his chauffeur. eight years later he was finally sentenced in that killing. he says his time in prison changed him to his core. and jayson williams joins me now here tonight.
hello, hello, hello. welcome to the show on a friday. morning, sunshine. i m robin meade. sad to see her go, but i know she will do something better. i don t believe it. maybe because i don t want to believe it. i think it would be such a great loss. oprah is just hours away from making it official. she is giving up her show and fans and skeptics are asking the same question why? plus there are some new allegations that could blow the lid off the ft. hood shooting investigation. why a security expert says that she is convinced that the alleged gunman could have been stopped and the victims did not have to die. and you might have already gotten a shot that will protect you from the swine flu even if you haven t had the new hard to find vaccine. really interesting. first, though, happening today, oprah winfrey will officially announce that she is ending her talk show. after 25 years of being in your living room every day if you re a viewer. the show is partners