House for Rent

Great house for rent in one of metro New York's greatest suburbs, Maplewood, NJ.Four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, backs onto a park, dead end street.Well, you know the deal. Looks like our tenants are moving out when their lease expires in January.…

More hoops

Here's my Slam story on my trip to Taiyuan.

CBA trip videos

CBA teams have some different warmup techniques. Rashid Byrd aka and 1's Seven and sum Change throwing down in pregame. They get progressively better. This guy has some skills but will never develop them. The day after I left he had…

A few more pictures

Pre- and post-game, lots of pretty aggressive autograph seekers.. at bottom you see me holding up the closest thing to a bath towel in my hotel room.

God Shammgod and hoops journey to Shanxi

I traveled to TaiYuan, Shanxi Province the other day for a Slam story. I was catching up with God Shammgod, the great pint guard with the great name who played U-Providence for two years before entering the Draft and playing a…

Tell it to the Judge, aka Ripper!

My man Rodger "Ripper" Citron sent me the following message with glee. On top is a picture very similar if not identical to the one mentioned below, which the Judge brought to class. Since one humiliation deserves another so I posted an additional…

Don’t Look Down!

My column went up today. It is my 24th. It’s somewhat hard for me to believe I am pushing on towards a year and 25+ columns now. Writing it has been great for me on many levels and most of them have come fairly easily.Even the ones I labored…

There goes the neighborhood

I have been thinking of writing about the way old Beijing is just being ripped down block by block and replaced by huge, glass skyscrapers, all over the central city. People hear about the hutongs (old alleyway neighborhoods) being torn down,…

Oh damn!

Just like that, blogspot is banned again and I can't view the site.. just when some friends here were starting to read it and I was feeling inspired to get cranking... Here today, gone tomorrow... you never know what the Great firewall of China…

Joshua Anchia-Cohen

A big welcome to the world to Joshua Anchia Cohen, born in Costa Rica to cousin Amy Cohen and her husband Kenneth Anchia. How do you say Mazel Tov in Spanish? IN Chinese it is goong-see.