NBA Finals and “no excuses” charter schools
This was written by Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina. It was published ondailykos.com.
By Paul Thomas
After Game One of the 2011 NBA Finals, pundits began to clamor to reappraise the status of the Miami Heat, a team nearly equally loved and despised for the same reason — the acquisition of LeBron James. But in the closing seconds of Game Two, Dirk Nowitzki made a spinning, driving layup with his splinted left hand to seal a huge fourth-quarter comeback, spurring Gregg Doyel at CBSSports.com to write a column titled “ Heat return to their smug ways and Mavs make them pay .”
Consider some of Doyel’s comments. Frame this about the Heat — “Ultimately, this was everything we have come to expect from these
