The Kansas State-Michigan State NCAA Tournament game Thursday on TBS was headed for a close finish.
The only issue remaining was whether the director would allow us, a national TV audience, to watch it. Hope was all we had going for us.
With 5 seconds left in regulation, Michigan State tied it with a layup. K-State quickly inbounded, then began to race down the floor when …What was the band doing? It was intently and anxiously watching the final seconds of regulation in a tied NCAA Tournament game — something we’d have done had we been allowed.
Grizzlies star Ja Morant returned Wednesday from an eight-game suspension for misbehavior above and beyond the NBA’s standard. He received, without urging, But John Sterling, the Nets’ radio voice and unabashed cheerleader, took care of that. From his courtside seat, Sterling stood, faced the crowd behind him and began to wildly gesture that they rise to applaud King. Several folks — perhaps out of embarrassment, perhaps out of adolescent ignorance — obeyed Sterling’s gestures.
His off and on-field play has included fights, boastful trash talk, highly personal feuds in ugly action plus penalties and ejections for dirty play.
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