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...Choking Matter Today's NBA can try men's souls ? and throats. Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell has been suspended indefinitely for throttling his coach during practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

OAKLAND: Coaching in today's NBA can try men's souls ? and throats. The Golden State Warriors have indefinitely suspended guard Latrell Sprewell for choking coach P.J. Carlesimo during practice Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Choking Matter | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

CHICAGO: As NBA analyst W.B. Yeats once said: Things fall apart. Even the Bulls. After 10 years in Chicago as the right-hand man on all those championship teams, Scottie Pippen wants out. "I ain't coming back," a surly Pippen told the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Il. at halftime of the Bulls' 103-88 victory at Sacramento Sunday. "I want to go to Phoenix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sidekick Cannot Hold | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Elsewhere, Isiah Thomas' role as GM-as-savior lasted only until it became apparent he would not be allowed to buy the team. His departure to a career as an NBC analyst is less a blow to the NBA as it is to a bright young Toronto Raptors franchise that will now probably see its best players, Damon Stoudamire and Marcus Camby, look for greener courts in the lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NBA: Knicks Win; Raptors Lose Big | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

What's wrong with this picture? Nowadays, nothing. But not so long ago, diva moms were as rare as short NBA stars. Though it wasn't impossible to bring up children between performances (Beverly Sills did it), most big-league women singers assumed that having babies would short-circuit their careers, and chose not to. Similarly, opera stars who sang pop music were invariably condemned for pandering to the proles (Ezio Pinza starred in South Pacific, but only after he retired from the Metropolitan Opera). And according to conventional wisdom, niceness was a luxury ambitious sopranos couldn't afford, moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: RENEE FLEMING: THOROUGHLY MODERN DIVA | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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