Henry Abbott

This isn’t exactly news, but Henry Abbott of TrueHoop just tweeted out the link to the latest “Playoff Odds,” which are calculated by ESPN’s numbers guru John Hollinger. Indiana has a 99.1% chance of making the playoffs. Just...

Frank Herbert's masterpiece Dune series features many themes involving politics, religion and ecology/scarcity of resources but Herbert's biggest message is that it is extremely dangerous for any society to elevate one person to hero or messiah statu...

James Ham and Henry Abbott discuss the future of the Kings in Sacramento.

The following article is satirical but all of the cited box score statistics are true (they are deliberately taken out of context but the raw numbers are accurate). Some names have been changed to protect the guilty. Hopefully most readers underst...

Cowbell Kingdom's James Ham joins Henry Abbott on TrueHoop TV to discuss the DeMarcus Cousins situation in Sacramento.

Tonight at the Varsity Letters speaking series, Harvey Araton will talk about his new book...

Time for another installment of Gelf's splendid Varsity Letters reading series, and this time it's particularly timely: Harvey Araton, Henry Abbott, and our man Scott Raab, will be reading and waxing about the NBA's return. 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Le P...

You can add one more item to your list of things to be thankful for this year. When you woke up this Saturday morning, the news of the biggest Black Friday deal likely struck you with sheer excitement – the NBA owners and players association reache...