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Magic Johnson and the Showtime Lakers not liking HBO’s <i>Winning Time</i> is what made it so goodOn Oct. 1, 2006, Marlo Stanfield infamously told a security guard at a grocery store on Monroe Street in Baltimore, Maryland, “You want it to be one way. But it’s the other way.” Who would have known that 17 years later, the words from one of the most important characters from HBO’s best show — The ...

<i>Winning Time</i> is the latest casualty of David Zaslav’s sports media bloodbath at WBDOn Monday, the guillotine hovering over HBO’s Winning Time finally dropped when the series joined a growing collection of shows canceled by the network. Declining ratings and criticism from its stars, who insisted that Adam McKay’s Lakers series based on Jeff Pearlman’s biographical account, turned ...

<i>Hard Knocks</i>: These magic tricks were more interesting than Aaron Rodgers or the JetsA break from the Aaron Rodgers Variety Hour was needed at the start of the second episode of Hard Knocks. There is plenty of footage of him being chummy, playful, and even the passive-aggressive side of him that surely gets old with his coworkers after a while. The New York Jets and HBO viewing audi...

Donald Trump's 10 best sports moments

Donald Trump has been officially indicted by a grand jury and is currently being processed in a New York Court house. That means that soon, we’ll learn what, exactly, Trump has been charged with and we might even get a mugshot (oh please, oh please). ...

That time Bo Jackson tried to kill Kevin Seitzer

In the summer of 1986, Bo Jackson and Kevin Seitzer played side-by-side on the Memphis Chicks, the Kansas City Double-A farm team. And although there wasn’t any noticeable animosity, the men — now teammates on the 1988 Royals — shared little in common. Unlike Jackson, blessed by the Gods to be an at...

Cale Gundy is the latest example of white America’s obsession with the N-word

For Eve, it was the forbidden fruit. For Cale Gundy, it was the N-word. Entitlement is the downfall of people who aren’t satisfied with having everything....

<em>Winning Time</em> ‘The Swan’ a review

For Americans, but specifically African-Americans, 1991 was a hell of a year....

Let’s talk the Lakers, the Magic and HBO's '<em>Winning Time'</em><em></em>

Before the Los Angeles Lakers drafted Earvin “Magic” Johnson with the first overall pick in 1979, the league was on the verge of a fate worse than death ⁠— irrelevancy. ...