﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>basketball news stories on Newser</title><description>Read more basketball stories on Newser</description><link>http://www.newser.com/taggrid/771/basketball.html</link><copyright>2009 - Newser</copyright><language>en-us</language><generator>Newser Feed Generator</generator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 5:36:32 CST</pubDate><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/74696/glammed-up-u-bball-stars-spark-uproar.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Glammed Up U B'Ball Stars Spark Uproar</title><description>Female basketball stars' three-pointers, hook shots, muscles and agility don't score with Florida State University officials. They'v also got to look good in the slinky gowns they had to don for the team's web site. Now women are crying foul. Each member of the team, some provocatively clutching basketballs, wears...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/74696/glammed-up-u-bball-stars-spark-uproar.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 3:06:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/74423/ex-nba-star-cops-plea-in-2002-shooting.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Ex-NBA Star Cops Plea in 2002 Shooting</title><description>Former New Jersey Net Jayson Williams has agreed to a plea bargain in the 2002 shooting death of a limo driver and the subsequent attempt to cover up his involvement. Under the deal, he will plead guilty tomorrow to aggravated assault, receive a sentence of 3 years, and serve a...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/74423/ex-nba-star-cops-plea-in-2002-shooting.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:09:53 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/74334/lebron-in-nfl-browns-coach-says-suit-up.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>LeBron in NFL? Browns Coach Says Suit Up</title><description>If LeBron James really wants to try football, Eric Mangini will find room on his roster. “I think he should come on down,” the Browns coach tells the Cleveland Plain Dealer . “The guy’s a freak athletically.” James may be an NBA star now, but he played wide receiver in high...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/74334/lebron-in-nfl-browns-coach-says-suit-up.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:29:30 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/73146/drudge-alarmed-over-skinny-obama.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Drudge Alarmed Over Skinny Obama</title><description>In a post today headlined “Barack ‘N Bones,” the Drudge Report sounds the alarm over President Obama’s gaunt appearance over the weekend. An intense, hoops-heavy exercise regimen is behind what the conservative site calls “dramatic” weight loss. “No, he’s not chain smoking,” a source says of the photos of Obama,...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/73146/drudge-alarmed-over-skinny-obama.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:00:48 CST</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/72987/womens-star-lieberman-wants-to-play-obama.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Women's Star Lieberman Wants to Play Obama</title><description>Taking exception to all-male White House basketball games, Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman today challenged President Obama to some one-on-one. “To score some real points with the public, stop arguing and just play ball—with the best,” Lieberman, 51 and coming off a stint last year in the WNBA writes....</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/72987/womens-star-lieberman-wants-to-play-obama.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:48:06 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/72352/magic-johnson-isiah-spread-rumors-i-was-gay.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Magic Johnson: Isiah Spread Rumors I Was Gay</title><description>Magic Johnson blames former friend Isiah Thomas for spreading rumors that Johnson was gay after he announced he had HIV in 1991. "Isiah kept questioning people about it,'' Magic writes. "I couldn't believe that. The one guy I thought I could count on had all these doubts. It was...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/72352/magic-johnson-isiah-spread-rumors-i-was-gay.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:41:24 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/71290/we-ran-into-a-president-with-some-serious-game-rep.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>'We Ran Into a President With Some Serious Game': Rep.</title><description>President Barack Obama and a few members of his cabinet played basketball tonight at the White House with a handful of House members, two of them Republicans. "We ran into a president with some serious game," said Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash. Obama had "a sweet crossover move" and appeared to...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/71290/we-ran-into-a-president-with-some-serious-game-rep.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:27:45 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/71205/lawmakers-get-court-date-with-obama.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>Lawmakers Get Court Date With Obama</title><description>Four cabinet secretaries and one GOP representative who walked out of President Obama’s joint address to Congress last month are among some 16 invitees for tomorrow’s White House fall basketball game. Rep. John Shimkus is the lone Republican on the list; that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has enough game for...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/71205/lawmakers-get-court-date-with-obama.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:27:24 CDT</pubDate></item><item><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newser.com/story/70799/11-reasons-to-stop-hating-the-wnba.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</guid><title>11 Reasons to Stop Hating the WNBA</title><description>The WNBA finals are going on, which has—in the past—led Sam Greenspan to joke, “Man I hope one of the players lands a one-handed breakaway dunk to seal the best-of-one series!” The league is “universally ripped on,” he writes for 11points.com, but the time has come to...</description><link>http://www.newser.com/story/70799/11-reasons-to-stop-hating-the-wnba.html?utm_source=syn&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=tag</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:02:29 CDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>