He is the basketball version of the Nuclear Football, the doomsday briefcase that accompanies the president everywhere. He is the fire extinguisher encased in glass. He is the Pale Panacea, the solution to all that ails the Minnesota Timberwolves.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- This spring, Minnesota Twins fans get to regard pitcher Boof Bonser's gut the way Hank Steinbrenner regards "Red Sox Nation" or the way the nation views Roger Clemens' credibility.It's almost as if it doesn't exist.
If you like a good conspiracy theory, you might want to start watching the NBA. The league that once found a way to land Patrick Ewing in New York, Larry Bird and Kevin McHale in Boston and Wilt, Magic and Kareem in Los Angeles is at it again.
Paying taxes unites us. It also divides us. People can pay five and even six times more in state and local taxes than other folks in similar circumstances making similar incomes.
In one of the fastest-growing forms of identity theft, crooks are stealing tax refunds by swiping personal information and using it to trick the Internal Revenue Service.