Lebron still hot a topic

I haven’t written or talked about LeBron James for nearly a minute and a half, clearly shirking my journalistic responsibility to contribute to the unabating national media obsession with LeBron and his villainy for having partnered with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to form the dream team Miami Heat.

Allow me to cry your pardon and make amends by mentioning the latest ESPN.com barrage in which 93 NBA panelists — c’mon, you can’t get seven more? — weighed in on five Heat questions:

  1. Whose team is it? (Most panelists, 44 percent, said Wade’s.)
  2. Will LeBron average a triple-double in any season with Miami? (72 percent said no.)
  3. What are the most games the Heat will win in any of the next six seasons? (45 percent said 65 to 69.)
  4. How many NBA titles will this dream team win? (40 percent said two.)
  5. Is Miami Thrice good or bad for the NBA? (80 percent said good.)

I would have suggested a sixth question: At any time before the season starts in October, will the media give this a freakin’ rest and go even a single day without a mention of LeBron? (100 percent would bray laughter and say, “of course not.”)

Gotta run. Need to get online and make sure LeBron didn’t just Tweet something newsworthy.

LeBron, LeBron, LeBron. LEBRON! LeBronLeBronLeBronLeBron. And now we bring in special guest Andres Cantor, the soccer announcer: “LeBrooooooooooooon!”

• Well it’s almost that time of year again when the 1972 Dolphins and everybody else begin to wonder if this finally will be the year we see another perfect season. But enough about the Heat going 82-0.

• A federal grand jury indicted disgraced baseball star Roger Clemens for lying to Congress about his steroid use. The national group, People Who Still Believe Clemens, has scheduled a rally meeting tonight at the Waffle House. Corner booth.

• The Dolphins, a franchise increasingly obsessed with celebrity and party atmosphere, have partnered with the Fontainebleau’s Club LIV to build a nightclub at the stadium that will be open during games. Great. Headline: “Henne blames costly interception on being temporarily blinded by glint from disco ball.”

• The football team also is involved with building a 40-acre water theme park adjacent to the stadium beginning in 2012. Dear Dolphins: Give us a Super Bowl winner for the first time in 37 years and you won’t need all these diversionary tactics.

• LeBron said in a GQ interview that Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert “never cared about LeBron.” Greg Cote hates it when people refer to themselves in the third person.

• Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie, on the HBO series “Hard Knocks,” had difficulty remembering all the names of his many children. Do what I do, Tony. Name tags.

• Serena Williams withdrew from the U.S. Open because of a foot injury. So it’s official now. The U.S. Open withdrawal list is more impressive than the entry list.

• A new song by Heat guard Carlos Arroyo, Se Va Conmigo (She’s Coming With Me), is rising on the reggaeton charts. I think I would feel better if Arroyo was rising on the point-guard charts.

• First his deal to be a Knicks consultant collapsed, now Florida International basketball coach Isiah Thomas learns two of his top recruits won’t be on the team this fall. Otherwise, a good week!

• German Martin Kaymer won the PGA Championship as Tiger Woods’ drought continued. Can a golfer I have heard of win a major, please?

• Much debate over whether U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin will select a struggling Woods for the team. Cannot confirm LeBron will announce Pavin’s decision in a one-hour special on ESPN.

Parting thought: It has now been one year for ESPN in the U.K. market. What have we learned? Mostly that Stuart Scott is even more annoying when faking a British accent.