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While holding virtual group workouts and regular team meetings via Zoom does the trick on some days, there are other days in which head coach Quin Snyder has decided the team needs a little bit more of a boost. “He’s been able to keep the engagement and the connectivity of the team even though the team is separate right now,” Jazz executive vice president of basketball operations Dennis Lindsey said on Tuesday. “It’s a good time for our players to listen to Quin as the leader of the group. Quin’s had cute ideas like the cookbook and we had (Sen.) Mitt Romney speak to the team a few days earlier. That was amazing.”
Eric Walden: Dennis Lindsey praised coach Quin Snyder for keeping "the engagement of the team going." Mitt Romney addressed the team a few days ago. Said all facets of the team's leadership have been in constant contact, that player development and bench coaches are working well together.
Axelrod stuffs his hands in the pockets of his blazer and walks the short block back to the Institute of Politics. Inside, the floors are covered in the salt stains of a hundred student boots. The institute, which hosts an impressive slate of speakers from both parties, including, in April, Mitt Romney, is something of an ad hoc museum, filled with Axelrod’s collection of American political artifacts. In the front hall is a glass-encased ballot box from the Florida 2000 presidential election. There’s also a napkin signed by JFK, a letter from the newly elected Abraham Lincoln to the Chicago mayor’s son, and a signed poster of Michael Jordan. “When the president turned 50, I wanted to get him something special … so I sent it to Jordan to have him sign it for me.” In black Sharpie, Jordan scrawled, “To Barrack: you still owe me dinner. Wishing you well, Michael Jordan.” “I gave it to the president, and he said, ‘I can’t put this up, he misspelled my name!’ So I said, ‘Fine, I’ll take it.’ ” His own office is a special exhibit dedicated to his time in politics — a program from a State of the Union speech, a ticket to the Nobel Prize ceremony, an invite to Obama’s swearing-in as senator, with the words HERE BECAUSE OF YOU! written in the president’s script.
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When Pat Riley last visited the White House to mark the Miami Heat’s 2006 championship, he told President and Republican George W. Bush he had voted for him. So what’s the Miami Heat president going to tell President and Democrat Barack Obama on Monday when his team again visits the White House? “Here’s how I am about that,’’ said Riley, who Friday wouldn’t reveal his vote in last November’s election although it has been reported he donated $7,500 to Mitt Romney’s campaign. “Regardless of what I am, he’s the leader and that’s it. He’s the boss and I’m right behind him. And it doesn’t make any difference. And that’s how I feel about it. And so I’ll shake his hand with as much enthusiasm and hope for the best. That’s the way it is in this country. That’s how I feel about it.’’
Dwight Howard, Ryan Lochte and Gregg Williams were among the 25 men and women named to GQ's list of the least influential people of 2012. Mitt Romney, Amanda Bynes and Madonna headlined the group that featured other sports figures like New York Knicks owner James Dolan, former Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine and disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. Howard was cited for the lengthy trade discussions that made "every American [hate his guts]," though that probably overstates how many people cared about Howard's trade status. Williams made it because he's "the rare person stupid enough to deserve being scapegoated." Dolan: "Does he have some kind of "stubborn [expletive]" gene that the rest of us lack?
Sun Capital, the Florida firm co-headed by Philadelphia 76ers boss and Romney donor Mark Leder, is among the buyers interested in Hostess Brands, shut last week amid a long-running bankruptcy and labor struggle, says Fortune's Dan Primack here. Sun already owns Manayunk-based PaperWorks and previously bought and downsized South Jersey's Aluminum Shapes and Jevic Transportation, among many other U.S. firms. "I think that we could offer a slightly better, more labor-friendly deal than what was on the table last week," Leder told Primack.
Former Temple star and current Sixers big man Lavoy Allen was upset last night when word came down that his choice for president, Mitt Romney, had been defeated by Barack Obama. Looking for someone to commiserate with, Allen took to Twitter and hit up fellow Romney supporter, actress Stacey Dash, best known for her role in Clueless. I'm not sure if the two know each other, or if Allen was trying out the Twitter version of a cold-call, but here is what he said: LaVoy Allen: @REALStaceyDash don't worry we will get through this together, if you need a shoulder to cry on I'm only a phone call away.
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Tracy McGrady: Congrats to President Barack Obama being re-elected for a 2nd term.
Micky Arison: Congratulations to President Obama. Time to unite, time to compromise, time to work together to solve the nations problems.
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