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...ORLEANS Dwight Howard wins slam-dunk contest at NBA All-Star game...
When I was thirteen, my dad and my brother Jay went on a road-trip with Jay’s all-star little-league baseball team. My mom doesn’t know how to cook (there was the particularly memorable night when she tried to make “three-cheese” pasta, which ended up congealed at the bottom of the pot and licked by our cat who had a penchant for cheddar), so instead she ordered a large pizza with artichoke hearts from Pizza-A-Go-Go. I hadn’t seen Shakespeare in Love...
...sports team, and could still use a psychic lift post-Katrina. The NFL's Saints have tasted some recent success, but they play only eight home games each season, drawing fans from all over the football-crazed state. But as the city prepares to host the league's All-Star Game festivities this weekend, many people are wondering if the Hornets can survive much longer in New Orleans. "Look, it was a difficult market before the hurricane, there's no secret about that," says Sal Galatioto, president of Galatioto Sports Partners, an investment bank. "After, it's that much more...
...certainly can't blame the players for any of these problems. Power forward David West stepped up his scoring, and made his first All-Star team. Center Tyson Chandler, long lambasted for being seven feet of soft, has emerged as one of the best rebounders in the NBA. Sharpshooting Serbian Peja Stojakovic is back from injuries and draining three-pointers every night. However, the Hornets wouldn't sting a thing without Paul. In just his third year in the NBA, Paul is averaging a career-high 20.5 points and 10.8 assists per game, while hitting a career best...
...thinks the NBA's interminable 82-game regular season waters down the action. "I would cut the games back," he says. "You're going to see a level of intensity go up." In a sports world consumed with wiping out drugs, Garnett, who was chosen for the Feb. 17 All-Star game but has an abdominal strain, would offer a curious reform. "We're drug-tested too much," he says. "We're very funny about our routines. The policy is set up now where, on game day, they can come get you, take...