Answering questions, some of them planted by the show's producers, Mr. O'Neal explained the concept behind "Shaq Vs.," in which a certain loquacious basketball player attempts to beat some of the highest-profile athletes in the world at their own games.
On Sunday, the name of Kim Jong-un's baby became known almost by accident, courtesy of a certain former US basketball star who keeps popping up in Pyongyang.
And, like a certain kind of basketball fan unhappy with an overpaid, underperforming point guard, he recommends, in hyperbolic language ("to ensure you a dazzling place in the firmament of bad management"), that they be replaced — benched.
(Dr. Whitaker also earned a public health degree at Harvard, where he played basketball with a certain lanky law review president with a funny last name).
That college football reflects that particular and peculiar set of predilections in the same way that a lot of college basketball flatters a certain more city-fied set of preferences is mostly to its credit, especially in contrast with the NFL's goofy-patriotic mass-production mayonnaise.
Did she comment on matters involving basketball, like how a certain play should be run?
How many times has a basketball team avoided a certain loss by desperately and deliberately fouling the other team, which missed their shots?
Women's tennis, soccer and volleyball eclipsed the men's games, while it became necessary in men's minor-league baseball, football and basketball to require a certain number of female athletes per team to assure attendance.
An avid video game player, he acknowledges a certain joy of playing "himself" on basketball video games.
