His double-double averages and the memories are all Shaquille O’Neal has left these days. Making what is likely his final appearance in the All-Star game before his hometown fans Sunday, the Big Aristotle, as might be expected, is a little reflective. “I’m the Shogun of all centers,” O’Neal told me. “I’ve done the most; any…

Plaxico Burress won the Super Bowl, shot himself in the thigh and now may be looking at an abrupt loss of freedom if convicted of felony weapons charges. Stephon Marbury was living the dream; he was playing in the NBA for his hometown team, one of the storied franchises in the history of sports. He was…

“I’m not broke. I’m just not liquid,” 45-year-old Evander Holyfield argued earlier this month upon narrowly avoiding a court appearance on charges that he was around $9,000 behind in court-ordered child support payments for one of his 11 children. But there’s no denying that as recently as two weeks ago, the “Real Deal’s” 54,000-square-foot, 109-room,…

All across Harlem USA, it’s known as the ‘Memorial Day Shootout.’ And no one wants to remember it. As families, friends and acquaintances celebrated the season’s most picturesque evening late that Monday, a scene erupted on the borders of Marcus Garvey Park that could have come right out of a frightening war movie. And when…

Am I my brother’s keeper? Clemson tailback Ray Ray McElrathbey lives his life by answering yes to that biblical question every day. So, two years ago with his mother battling a drug addiction and his absentee father crippled by an equally self-sabotaging gambling affliction, the question of what to do with his then 11-year-old brother…