By Tom Jones, Times Staff Writer
Sunday, June 5, 2011
He said it
"I do plan on entertaining you for the next 19 years, whether that's TNT, ESPN, CNN. Whoever wants to hire me, my offices open up on Monday. Give me a call."
Shaquille O'Neal, who announced his retirement last week and surely will get the phone calls today
Number of the day
12 U.S. metropolitan areas, now that Atlanta has lost the Thrashers, that have a team in all four major sports — MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL. The cities: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco bay area, which includes Oakland and San Jose.
He wrote it
Maybe Brad Richards would take less to return to Tampa Bay, maybe living a life with less daily stress than everyone of us who lives in New York routinely encounters just isn't for him. That doesn't make him a bad person any more than Cliff Lee taking less to play for the Phillies rather than the Yankees.
Larry Brooks, New York Post