Plain Dealer sports columnist Bill Livingston has retired. In his final columns, he wrote about his five most memorable Cleveland-area sports figures during his 34 years at The Plain Dealer. CLEVELAND, Ohio - Four years ago, LeBron James yanked the sword from the stone and said the magic words that opened fans' hearts that had seemed forever shut to him. "I'm coming home," he announced through his media confidant, the excellent Lee Jenkins of Sports Illustrated. Nothing was the same after he returned from a four-year stay in Miami. Even when he left Sunday night for the Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent, the attitude was entirely different, one of gratitude and appreciation, from his controversial first move.
LeBron James: Inspiration, icon, activist, ring-bearer - Bill Livingston's Five to Remember
