What follows is 100% true… I left Orlando this past Sunday night at 1:45 a.m. Pacific on a red-eye flight from LAX to Orlando (red-eye flights are overnight ones where you get little sleep and hence have red-eyes the next day). I had been up since 6:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, and by the time I landed in Orlando at Noon on Monday I had one hour of sleep in the previous 27 hours. I felt fine, but the early signs of sleep deprivation were beginning to show. First, as I was getting off the plane I got a call from...

I love basketball. I always have because it was a sport I could play alone. I had five sisters, no brothers and my dad worked a lot to provide for our family. A lot of my “guy time” was spent alone, and the basketball court was my constant companion.

Evan Lysacek defied the odds on many fronts during the 2010 Winter Olympics. 1) He beat the favored Olympic champion to win gold medal in Vancouver. 2) He was the first American male to win the figure skating gold medal since 1988. 3) He’s managed