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I could not help but smile, and cheer inside, as the Miami Heat were closed out of the NBA finals. Good riddance, LeBron! Ever since King James’ “decision” and the aftermath after, I have wanted to see the Miami Heat lose. And now we are all vindicated.

I wonder how the city of Cleveland reacted.

James took his talents to South Beach, and South Beach is where the Mavericks left him empty and frustrated. He is still tied for NBA titles with the Cavaliers he left behind.

Right from the start, the Mavericks took control of the game, scoring 32 points in the very first quarter. The Heat got back into the game in the second quarter, reducing the Mavericks lead to two points by halftime. Dallas opened up the third quarter just like the first, building their lead back to nine points and controlling the remainder of the game.

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Derrick Rose scored 28 points, Luol Deng contained LeBron James and the Chicago Bulls struck first in the Eastern Conference finals, pulling away to beat the Miami Heat 103-82 in Game 1 on Sunday night.

The Bulls are off to a good start in this series after sweeping the Heat during the regular season. They went on a 10-0 run midway through the third quarter, then pulled away in the fourth. As the final minutes ticked away, fans could not contain themselves, chanting “Over-rated!” and “Beat the Heat!” Game 2 is Wednesday night in Chicago, and they’ll certainly take another performance like this.

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Seven points. Four turnovers. A 38-point defeat that felt like 83. The last time the Cowboys lost a game by more was a 40-point loss to the Minnesota Vikings in a 1988 laugher quarterbacked by Steve Pelluer and coached by Tom Landry. This is officially the worst season since 1989 and with the New York Giants looming Sunday, it could get worse before it gets better. If it gets better.

Even noted Cowboys fan LeBron James has slam-dunked this season. In Twitter posts  last night he called his favorite team “officially the worst in the NFL” and called for “furniture moving.” Wonder if LeBron can play Safety?

Never thought I’d say this about my Cowboys but they are officially the worst team in the NFL right now even though the Bills are winless!

Aaron Rodgers threw 27-for-34 which is an amazingly great near 80% completion rate, adding in 3 touchdowns. He also scurried with the ball 5 times for 41 yards (over 8 yards a carry, not shabby!) including a 27-yarder. Dallas Defense, who?
My boy Greg Jennings had 7 catches for 80 yards and a score, and San Jose State’s James Jones had 8 catches for 123 yards and a score, and no fumble this time! Ryan Grant backups John Kuhn and Brandon Jackson combined for 26 carries, 92 yards and a score on the ground, as well as 6 receptions for 38 yards and another scoure, out of the backfield.
The defense amassed 4 sacks, 2 picks, and 2 fumble recoveries, including 2 scores. What a great night on primetime!

Here are two highlight videos:

• AJ Hawk to Clay Matthews interception touchdown
• Dez Bryant misreads a punt kick, causes a fumble and recovered by the Packers

Have you seen the new LeBron commercial? It’s about as fantastic as “The Decision” he put us all through back in July. The commercial aired today produced by Nike called “Rise”, where LeBron basically tells everyone to shove off.

The ad featured plenty of pointed imagery, including: Cleveland’s giant “WE ARE ALL WITNESSES” banner falling to the ground, James speaking to an empty room at a mock Hall of Fame induction, the “CHOSEN 1″ tattoo being removed from his back and James at the wheel of a bulldozer tearing through a basketball arena.

At one point, the camera focuses close on James’ face as he declares, “I am not a role model.”

LeBron is out to settle a score with the general public and this commercial is just the most recent example of that. He takes shots at all of the doubters. He takes shots at some of his mentors. He tries to remind everyone that’s he’s been down this road before. What he really may be doing, though, is trying to cope with all of the support he has seemingly lost in the past few months. Simply put, it seems like LeBron is feeling betrayed. No matter what he’s done, he feels he can’t win. Once on top of the sports world, LeBron is now, as he points out in the commercial, a villain.

So now, he’s produced something to more or less tell you, me and everyone else that he doesn’t really care what you think. He poses the sarcastic question about what you and I think he should do throughout. The answer, LeBron, is anything from sarcastic — just shut it and play basketball. If he wanted to do a commercial so badly, do one reminding everyone of what you really are, first and foremost — a helluva basketball player, maybe the best.

Dan Gilbert, the majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, had a little to say after the  laugh-riot that LeBron James put the city of Cleveland into for the past week. Not only did “King” James decide to make a one-hour ESPN special out of this whole ordeal of which team he would abandon his hometown for, but also posted on his website that he would be answering questions on his new Twitter account.

The owner had this to say:

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As much as I am disappointed in LeBron’s decision, I am also sad that we will have nothing else to chat about in the office until the NFL begins warming up again.

The news that LeBron James is going to Miami to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh will surely have some anointing the Heat as next season’s favorites. Don’t expect many basketball people to be among them. “It’s not over with,” New York coach Mike D’Antoni said. “Nothing’s over.”

Miami has three of the best players in the NBA, but it takes 12 to fill a roster. And even if the trio keeps its word and takes less money than allowed, there still won’t be much cash left for the Heat to have many good choices. Certainly not enough to go sign their versions of Ron Artest and Lamar Odom, who helped Los Angeles pull out Game 7 of the NBA finals while Kobe Bryant was struggling. “I think whatever happens, I don’t think anyone is going to beat the Lakers anyway,” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. “When you look at what the Lakers have, it’s really hard to beat them. That team is so good, but if they continue to get better and can stay healthy, it’s not going to matter who you put together.”

Still, the Heat now have a chance to do it, all because they took a chance in free agency and it paid off. The best players almost never leave as free agents in the NBA, where the league’s collective bargaining agreement allows them to receive longer contracts with bigger raises from their own clubs. Yet the Heat persuaded both James and Bosh to come to South Florida, even though it could mean leaving about $30 million on the table.

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LeBron James and his mother Gloria James are being sued for millions by a man who claims he tried to prove he’s the NBA star’s biological father, but LeBron and his mom tampered with the evidence in a diabolical cover-up.

The lawsuit is explosive; in it, 55-year-old Leicester Bryce Stovell claims he met Gloria in a D.C. area bar in 1984 and had unprotected sex with her on the night they met. He later found out she was 15-years-old at the time, he was 29. According to the docs, filed recently in federal court, Gloria has spent the rest of her life shielding LeBron from the truth. But the man making the claim isn’t some schmuck. He is a Princeton graduate who earned a law degree from the University of Chicago, and then became a Senior Legal Advisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In his suit, Stovell claims he has a very clear recollection of the night he had “consensual sexual relations” with Gloria — in fact, he even remembers apologizing for his sub-par performance. Leicester claims Gloria went back to her hometown in Ohio after they hooked up, but returned several months later to inform him she was pregnant with a boy named LeBron, but she never specifically identified the father. Leicester, a self-proclaimed high school star athlete, says he remembers telling Gloria, “Well, if he’s mine, make sure he plays basketball.” He claims that was the last time he saw Gloria for more than 20 years.

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No, but that’s Tiger Woods’ pipedream. He may just be throwing this out there to distract us from other stuff, but Tiger Woods, for some reason, believes that LeBron James should end up with the Los Angeles Lakers. According to some reports, James is currently talking with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh about possibly going to the Miami Heat, as you know if you get your up-to-the-minute Verizon LeBron James rumors text messages like I do. But then, a voice came from the clouds. And Tiger said:

Yeah, actually I would love to see him go to the Lakers,” the world’s top golfer said. “I’m an L.A. guy, can’t help it. That would be interesting, wouldn’t it?

Erhm. No, it wouldn’t be interesting. At all. Either way, LeBron makes his decision tomorrow, as July 1st is the NBA’s cutoff time.

Mike Brown won everything in five years coaching the Cleveland Cavaliers. Everything, that is, except an NBA title. Brown, the most successful coach in franchise history, was fired Monday after failing to win a championship with superstar, and soon-to-be free agent, LeBron James.

Brown’s dismissal had been expected since the Cavs were eliminated by the Boston Celtics in the second round of the playoffs, a stunning exit for a team favored to win it all. In five seasons, Brown, who had one year left on his contract, went 314-177 and was the league’s coach of the year in 2009. He took Cleveland to the postseason every season and led the Cavaliers to their only finals appearance in 2007. But the Cavs, despite having the best regular-season record the past two years, fell short of winning their first title and now face an uncertain future with James, the league’s two-time defending MVP, eligible for free agency and expected to listen to offers from other teams.

LeBron James just got the sweetest offer in the history of mankind to move from Cleveland to the New York Knicks — a lifetime of free stripper action.

The Cleveland Cavaliers star, who will become a free agent after this season, is getting million-dollar offers from several franchises to make the switch to their team, but if LeBron inks a deal with the Knicks, New York’s premiere strip club Scores says it’ll give the basketball star:

• A free lifetime of lap dances
• A “LeBron James Day” when all the strippers will wear his jersey
• And free food for life at the strip club’s very own steakhouse

Good luck competing with that Utah!