OFF the CUFF

  • Carmelo Anthony: The Heat Can be Beat

    By CNBC | Off the Cuff – Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:00 AM EDT

    Carmelo Anthony was stumped. “What’s my title?” he laughed.

    He has a point. To his fans, he’s “Melo,” plain and simple. The man who led Syracuse University to its only NCAA basketball championship. Now, a forward for the New York Knicks, one of the NBA’s most prolific scorers and six-time NBA All-Star.

    He’s also the public face of a team trying to rebuild. For 40 years, the Knicks have suffered a title drought in their quest for the NBA Championship. Anthony has helped revive the team’s chances, and he’s bolstered the hopes of its most jaded fans. But standing between the Knicks and basketball history is the red-hot Miami Heat.

    “You know, as a fan of basketball, just to watch and see them win 27 games in a row, that's quite unheard of in our time, in my time, Anthony told "Off The Cuff". But, he added, "they can be beat." He proved it last night - he tied his career high with 50 points, topping the Miami Heat with a 102-90 victory .  The defending champs were without LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers, who were all sidelined by injuries.

    Off-season, he trains in a boxing ring. “When it comes to boxing, it’s a matter of putting myself in a different mentality,” he said. “My focus level has to be at an all-time in a boxing gym. And that transcends to the basketball court.”

    Anthony lives life fully in the public eye. In addition to being a star player in the NBA, and one of the league’s most popular players, in 2010 he appeared in a reality show which starred his wife, TV personality Lala Anthony. Even their wedding was televised. But the constant scrutiny has its downsides. Earlier this month, Ms. Anthony publicly refuted rumors that the couple had separated.

    “It's kind of - you’re in this box. “ Anthony explained, “it's a transparent box where everybody sees what you're doing, everybody knows what you doing, especially with the way that the media is - online, digital, newspapers. But you’ve got to have fun doing what you do, and in the way you live. It's hard, but we deal with it. You know, I think the first part is understanding, and knowing, that that's your life. Once you get to that point, it’s half the battle.”

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  • Very soon now, Doug Parker may run the largest airline in the world. Parker is the chairman and CEO of US Airways . On March 27, the airline’s merger with American Airlines won bankruptcy court approval. The new, combined airline will have an annual revenue of an estimated $40 billion, and will offer 6,700 daily flights. The merger is expected to close later this year – it needs approval from shareholders and the Department of Justice.

    Parker has been a longtime proponent of airline consolidation.  In 2006, he made a run for Delta Airlines, later withdrawing the bid.  In 2008 and 2010, he wooed United but was rebuffed.  Asked about his relationship with other airline CEO’s, he said,“we get together primarily to work on lobbying in DC, which is something that other industry groups do, and not much else, so that’s most of what we’re talking about.  When we’re together, we tend to spend a lot of our time commiserating about how the government is making our lives difficult sometimes in

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  • Are You a Man? One Author Feels Your Changes

    By CNBC | Off the Cuff – Wed, Mar 27, 2013 6:25 AM EDT

    There’s a seismic shift on the Earth’s surface. All around us, imperceptible to the human eye, creatures are evolving.

    It’s men. They’re changing.

    That’s according to Bruce Feiler, the best-selling author and New York Times columnist. “I think the evolution of men is actually one of the under-discussed conversation topics in the world today,” he told “Off the Cuff.” “There are so many conversations about women and work-life balance. Men are facing these issues in a very real way. “

    Feiler’s grandfather made 28 cassette tapes before he died, on which he narrated his life story. “He didn’t mention his wife by name,” he said. “He didn’t mention his wedding. He didn’t mention his children more than once or twice. He talked about his life, his job, and what he thought about things. I see in my father, particularly as he gets older, an evolution to be much more open about feelings. Men now in their 20s and 30s, they don't want to just get on a corporate ladder and climb to some height. They want to have more meaning in their lives.”

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  • The last family argument left oatmeal on the ceiling.

    Your tween wants a tattoo.

    Your son bought $600-worth of virtual pirate coins on an online app.

    You’ve tried bribing, cajoling, begging, crying, screaming, pleading—and that’s just with the in-laws.

    Don’t give up. Call in the cavalry. That's exactly what best-selling author and New York Times columnist Bruce Feiler did.

    “I was incredibly frustrated as a parent," Feiler told “Off the Cuff”. “Our lives were very chaotic. We were out of control. And I felt like we were always playing defense and we were never playing offense with our children. I was very frustrated that parents are in this straitjacket, that the only ideas we can implement must come from the family improvement industry, shrinks and self-help gurus,” he continued. “Yet, in all these other areas of contemporary life, from Silicon Valley to corporate America, championship sports teams, even the military, there are all these ideas of how to make groups and teams run effectively. I wanted to find out what those people were doing in their homes and then test their ideas out with my own wife and kids.”

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