Robert Pera

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It seems to happen all the time. A significant national sports story appears. And -- well, I'll be darned -- there's a West Virginian in the mix. Earlier in the NBA season, Mullens native Mike D'Antoni was trying to manage the...

As the Grizzlies prepare for the Western Conference Finals, Jason Levien, the president of the team, is walking around the Chicago predraft camp with a giant sandwich board that says, "I told you so." No, wait. That's what I would do in his...

Spend a Grizzlies game night at FedExForum, and you'll see the expected: a Z-Bo or Marc Gasol jersey here, a team store T-shirt there. Then you'll see the unexpected, at least if you're a first-time Grindhouse patron: a Grindfather shirt, made with Tony...

Tony Allen maneuvered his way under the basket and tried to flip the ball to Zach Randolph with 3:03 left Monday night in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals. Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant intercepted the pass and was credited...

Grizzlies games are our civic shared experience -- even more so on Twitter, where the live commentary runs through the game and all the days in between. Which isn't to say it's devoid of characters. So Tuesday, with the aid of months of watching my...

Pace Cooper has a pair of 8-year-olds holding him accountable for helping breathe life back into Memphis International Airport. That's a heavy responsibility, even for a successful businessman and civic-minded Memphian whose recent appointment to the...

While many firms are lucky to get one big team deal annually, as a key player in O'Melveny & Myers' entertainment, media and sports practice, Sullins has done three major sports-team deals in under a year. "We sold the San Diego Padres baseball club,...

If David Stern ruled the NBA with an iron fist, he cushioned the blows by transforming a league that couldn't get its championship final live on national TV in the early 1980s into a powerful marketing machine that made players and owners incredibly...

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