If you’re going to run a lot, you need to be equally committed to your recovery to avoid injury and burnout. That’s something I’ve learned, sometimes the hard way, over the past decade of running.

The defending champion San Antonio Spurs are once again on track to make the playoffs, but being in seventh place in the Western Conference is unfamiliar territory for a Tim Duncan-led Spurs squad.

There has been little reason to take the Los Angeles Lakers seriously as a contending team this season. The Lakers sit 13th in the Western Conference, meaning they have to leapfrog at least three ...