Sport is an interesting creature, and about once a year, a particular storyline becomes larger than life. It is able to develop a level of human interest that is so accentuated that it grabs not only the casual fan, but the non-fan as well. In other words, it becomes an EVENT.
When LeBron James makes his long anticipated return to Cleveland tonight, it will not only be one of those events, but the event.
These moments are why sports are better than anything else. This might sound a little irrational, but it’s true.
Hoosier faithful, it’s time to have an honest discussion. How this rut began is no secret. It began by compensating years of stagnating– compiling a core of mediocre talent - by trying to take the fast track back to the glory days and injecting the program with players it didn’t rightfully earn. It even almost worked.
Since when did we get a new system of measurement? I thought we would surely measure ourselves in centimeters before gold. But that is not what LeBron James decided on July 8, 2010.