If Bill Russell was suspended from a road playoff game for hitting an opponent with an elbow how would he have spent his time? (I know, it’s  impossible to imagine Russell losing his head in the heat of battle and getting suspended — but leave that aside for now, this is what professors call...

It’s Day-2 on Tommy Lasorda’s USO road show, alongside the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen.  It’s a trip that’s taken Lasorda from the States to Shannon, Ireland — for a refueling stop and an encounter with 1,000 Marines returning to from Iraq —...