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- 04/02/2012 Lakers look like a team with fading legs
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers must have felt the sting of the irony as they looked at former teammate Derek Fisher dressed in Oklahoma City Thunder gear Thursday night. The team that needed to get younger, needed to reinvent itself, needed t [more...]
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- 03/22/2012 Where Will Tebow Land?
Tim Tebow may have been a victim of his own limited success. Without his great run in the second half of the season and his shocking first round victory in the playoffs, there is little chance that Peyton Manning would have come to the Denver Broncos [more...]
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- 02/20/2012 Carmelo Anthony responds to Linsanity
Not much was at stake, just the possibility that an entire era of New York Knicks basketball would evaporate into thin air. After a decade of horrible decisions by the front office, dating back to the ill-fated Isiah Thomas regime, the Knicks had fin [more...]
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- 02/20/2012 Lebron continues to play with hearts and minds of Cleveland
Oops, he did it again. He got lost in his own mind games. Oh, baby, baby.Sorry for the Britney Spears reference, but LeBron James is quickly becoming as big a wreck as Britney Spears herself.After publicly breaking pup with the city of Cleveland on l [more...]
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- 01/13/2012 NY Giants vs. Green Bay Packers
It’s been just over a month since the New York Giants were seconds away from being the team that derailed the Green Bay Packers perfect season. Instead of making them a team to fear, the Giants shrinked from the moment and the Packers won 38-35 [more...]
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- 12/09/2011 NFL Game of the Week
It helps in the NFL to have a short memory. The Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants both lost heartbreaking games last week. Both teams stumbled at the end of their games. The Giants missed a chance to pull even in the NFC East race, but the Cowbo [more...]
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- 11/27/2011 Arkansas vs. LSU
The Game of the Century is still fresh in our memories and people are still talking about the low-scoring match-up of Alabama and LSU. Among the topics of discussion is whether there should be or will be a rematch in the BCS title game. The pesky Ark [more...]
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- 11/21/2011 2011 Heisman Watchlist
Everyone feels like Andrew Luck has got to be a shoe-in for Heisman this year. Everyone except historians. Luck came in second in the Heisman voting last year, and with Cam Newton gearing up for Sundays, he would seem to be logical choice. Except for [more...]
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- 11/13/2011 Jets- Patriots
A month ago, one would have thought this Sunday night’s game between the Jets and Patriots would have been a final-nail ceremony for the Jets season. They had lost three games in a row and the juggernaut Patriots were rolling.But a reenergized [more...]
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- 10/30/2011 Monday Night Football - Chargers & Chiefts
Maybe the San Diego Chargers got tired of their of formula of losing early and winning late. It looks like now they could be toying with the win-lose-win streak pattern of play. If so, they’re only nearing the end of a mid-season losing s [more...]
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- 10/20/2011 Big 10 Game of the Week
The Michigan State Spartans are starting to believe. The team has an 11-game winning streak at home, which they will put to the test against the Big 10’s best team Saturday night in East Lansing. The Wisconsin Badgers know well the story of the [more...]
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- 09/30/2011 NFL Action: Pittsburgh vs. Texans
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Texans square off Sunday in Houston in one of those games where, as they say, we're going to find out a lot about both of these teams. Whoever wins this game will be the leader at the quarter-season mark in their d [more...]
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- 07/30/2011 Vikings show curious judgement bringing in McNabb
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- 07/30/2011 Arizona Cardinals go All In
Michael Vick, Aaron Rodgers, Matt Ryan, Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning, Matt Cassel, Mark Sanchez, Joe Flacco, Matt Hasselbeck and Charlie Whitehurst. Two of these things are not like the other. The list above is comprised of the quart [more...]
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- 06/22/2011 Tiger vs. Rory
It’s a story right out of Holywood. Brash young man is humbled by a legendary menace and comes back to redeem himself on the biggest stage. It sounds like a screenplay. But that’s Holywood with one “L.” The year was 1997 and a [more...]
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- 06/02/2011 So long, Shaq, it's been an amazing ride
Shaquille O’Neal came to Boston hoping to add one more ring to his massive hands, to be the oversized sidekick for the Celtics Big Three. Despite the jokes and the laughs, the Celtics front office loved the way he prepared, admitting they [more...]
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- 05/31/2011 Mavs - Heat Prediction
The Dallas Mavericks were the most underrated team in the NBA all season. They had two Hall of Fame players, added a consistent big man who could do damage on both ends and had a player remaining from the 2006 team who knows what it takes to close. E [more...]
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- 05/27/2011 Kobe's Reighn is Over
No owner or general manager wants to look like they are beholden to a player. It makes them look weak and it compromises them in the eyes of other players and other executives around the league. Some players have earned the right to be consulted on c [more...]
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- 05/14/2011 Eastern Conference Finals
When LeBron James said his Decision last summer was all about winning rings, he wasn’t really being honest. When Dwayne Wade expressed interest in coming to play for the Chicago Bulls and then made a recruiting trip home while filming a d [more...]
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- 05/04/2011 LeBron battling his demons
As the furor over The Decision has faded over the course of the basketball season, the questions of, “Why did he do it?” and “Why did he do it that way?” seem to have faded with it.We all under LeBron wanted to play with his f [more...]
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- 04/15/2011 Easter Conference Playoffs - 1st Round
#1 Chicago Bulls vs. #8 Indiana PacersThey didn’t exactly go from worst to first over the past couple of years, but the Chicago Bulls have gone from barely skating into the playoffs in 2009 and 2010 to being the number one seed in the entire le [more...]
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- 04/07/2011 2011 Masters
The pimento cheese sandwiches are all sliced and ready to serve. Butler Cabin has been vacuumed and polished. And Magnolia Lane has been pruned and swept, ready for the arrival of some of the world’s greatest golfers. Heading into the 2011 Mast [more...]
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- 04/04/2011 2011 NCAA Championship Preview
Six weeks ago, the Butler Bulldogs looked like they might not make it to the NCAA Tournament for a chance to repeat their Cinderella run. The Connecticut Huskies went 3-7 from the end of January through early March. In short, neither of these teams l [more...]
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- 03/24/2011 Sweet 16: West Region
San Diego State (2) vs. University of Connecticut (3) Connecticut may have the best player. They may have the better coach. They may have more national titles. And they may be the favorite. But the San Diego State Aztecs have some serious homeco [more...]
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- 03/24/2011 Sweet 16 - South East Region
Wisconsin (4) vs. Butler (8) It seems every other year the Badgers make it to the Sweet 16. Maybe that’s because they’re playing in their fifth one in 11 years. The Butler Bulldogs are no stranger, either, having played for the Natio [more...]
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- 02/21/2011 Western Conference Standings
We are actually almost two-thirds of the way through the season here in late February. There is a rather important trade deadline on the horizon that could in small or large part alter the landscape of the league. But the NBA All-Star break always fe [more...]
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- 02/21/2011 Easter Conference Standings
We are actually almost two-thirds of the way through the season here in late February. There is a rather important trade deadline on the horizon that could in small or large part alter the landscape of the league. But the NBA All-Star break always fe [more...]
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- 01/24/2011 It will be up to Cutler to silence the critics
“Myself, I would have had to have been paralyzed to come out of the game. I don't want to say that word,” Ditka said. “I would have had to be completely knocked out to come out of that football game.” "MCL sprain. That's [more...]
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- 01/21/2011 AFC Championship
You could understand the Baltimore Ravens fans who have wandering around the Inner Harbor of Charm City over the past week wondering ‘what if?’ While they and their team sit at home this week, Ben Roethlisberger and the hated Steelers get [more...]
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- 01/06/2011 Colts vs. Jets
Rex Ryan is probably ready to put talk of foot fetish videos behind him. That's not the only thing he's likely trying to forget. There's also the painful memory of last year's AFC Championship loss to the Indianapolis Colts, whom the New York Jets vi [more...]
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- 11/19/2010 Virginia Tech vs. Miami
At the beginning of the season, many people expected Virginia Tech to be positioned to take home the ACC’s Coastal Division title yet again. Likely nobody predicted the Hokies would lose the first two games of the season to get here.But here th [more...]
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- 10/11/2010 NFL Game of the week
It seems like there’s never a shortage of storylines when Brett Favre takes the field. With all due respect to the Packers, this week may take the cake. The Ol’ Gunslinger has looked tired, partially lame and out of sorts in his first thr [more...]
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- 10/01/2010 Self-righteous windbags the Americans are
You may remember the diminutive golfer from such Ryder Cups as the 1991 installment when he arrived at Kiawah Island on the heels of Desert Storm wearing a camouflage baseball hat.Well, not surprisingly, Pavin upped the ante this year by not just wea [more...]
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- 09/20/2010 Steelers vs. Titans
Two years ago Ben Roethlisberger was a Super Bowl champion and Vince Young’s career was in jeopardy. Big Ben was the toast of Pittsburgh and Young was sitting on the sidelines, and had scared those close to him in September of 2008 that he may [more...]
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- 09/11/2010 Indy vs. Houston
After a crushing loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1980 AFC title game, legendary Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips famously said, "Last year we knocked on the door. This year we beat on it. Next year we're going to kick the son of a bitch [more...]
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- 08/26/2010 Leave Rex Ryan Alone
In recent years, weve sat horrified at the behavior of coaches. We dont want to bring up too much specific dirty laundry. But, lets be clear. There have been coaches who have driven while intoxicated, putting multiple lives in jeopardy. There have be [more...]
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- 08/10/2010 Tiger Woods finally looks human, and it's ugly
One of the most unfair and inequitable events on the periphery of sports – OK, sports gambling – over the past dozen years has been the imbalance in selecting golfers in major championship betting pools.Since 1998, if you had the first pi [more...]
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- 08/09/2010 NBA Free Agency Moves
With NFL training camps under way and the MLB trading deadline past, the NBAs moment in the summer spotlight is now behind us. We can all start caring again in February. But, truth be told, we will likely start caring again in November. Or well at le [more...]
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- 07/27/2010 Dez Bryant a natural fit for Dallas Cowboys
He may have only recently become a Dallas Cowboy, but Dez Bryant is already playing like one of the legends to wear the blue star. Make that, already acting like one of the legends. And by legends, we don't mean legends along the lines of Staubach, D [more...]
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- 07/01/2010 What's next for U.S. Soccer?
Since 1994, it seems we sit down every four years and wonder what affect the World Cup will have on soccer in America. In 94, we hosted the Cup, so it seemed like a great launching point for the worlds most popular sports here. By 1996, Major League [more...]
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- 06/11/2010 World Cup for Dummies
Every four years, the World Cup rolls around and all of your skinny friends who played soccer in high school and all of your foreign mates get all worked up over what is the most important, most exciting, most incredible sporting event in the entire [more...]
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- 06/03/2010 Here we are again
If an alien came to earth and someone had to explain the NBA Finals to them, he would likely put in a videotape featuring players in green and yellow. The Celtics and the Lakers. This is what NBA championship history is made of. There are certainly f [more...]
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- 05/15/2010 What next for King James
When he received the NBA MVP trophy a couple of weeks ago, LeBron James did so not in a press room in the bowels of the Cavaliers arena but at the University of Akrons gym where he played his high school home games.There was not just press and Cavs b [more...]
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- 03/25/2010 NCAA South Regional
Baylor vs. St. Mary'sThe Line: Baylor -4 Even though they are a #3 seed, if either the Baylor Bears or the St. Marys Gaels make it to the Final Four next week, it will have to be considered a Cinderella story. The Bears program looked on the verge of [more...]
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- 03/25/2010 NCAA East Regional
West Virginia University vs. Washington The Line: West Virginia -4People always say that you can only get as far in the NCAA tournament as your point guard takes you. If that is true, the Bob Huggins West Virginia Mountaineers could be in trouble. Ju [more...]
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- 03/25/2010 NCAA West Regional
Syracuse vs. ButlerThe Line: Syracuse -6 1/2Syracuse has looked exactly like a #1 seed is supposed to look in the first two rounds, winning games one and two by 23 and 22 points, respectively. While the Big East in has looked less than intimidating, [more...]
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- 03/03/2010 Atheletes & Guns
Theres been a bit of unspoken racism going on with regard to the whole guns-and-athletes issue for some time now, if you ask me.Lets look at high profile cases: First, there was NBA star Jayson Williams, who shot and killed a limo driver in 2002. The [more...]
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- 01/17/2010 Vikings vs. Cowboys
Are you ready for some story lines?If you are the kind of person who cringes when you hear the monotonous voices of announcers shoving trite stories down your throat during games, you better wear a mouth guard for the Minnesota Vikings and Dallas Cow [more...]
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- 01/17/2010 Chargers vs. Jets
Talk about two teams with two very different ethos. The New York Jets were left for dead three weeks ago, even their coach thought they were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Jump to a week ago, and Jets coach Rex Ryan is declaring t [more...]
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- 01/07/2010 BCS Title Game: Texas will need to be near perfect
If the Alabama-Texas match-up had come before Thanksgiving, I would imagine oddsmakers would have a tough time setting a line. Texas seemed to be dominating in a weaker conference, having only faced a challenge from Oklahoma and a bit of one from a f [more...]
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- 01/05/2010 Fiesta Bowl Preview
Call it the National Championship for the non-BCS-conference schools. When Boise State and CU face off in the Fiesta Bowl in a rematch of last years Poinsettia Bowl, both teams will be attempting to prove that they are as worthy of national recogniti [more...]
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- 12/31/2009 Un-Leached: Texas Tech Fires Mike Leach
It seemed inevitable that it would come to this for Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach. The eccentric coach who drew some small amount of notoriety for also being a lawyer sees his career in Lubbock end at the hand of a lawyer.Did the administratio [more...]
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- 11/15/2009 TCU Looks to Make and Repeat History
Some young people may not know it, but Davey OBrien isnt just the name of trophy given every year to the best college quarterback.He was actually a living, breathing football players. And one of the best. Along with Slingin Sammy Baugh, OBrien helped [more...]
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- 11/01/2009 Pack vs. Vikings Take 2
It’s like Hulk Hogan turning from hero to heel. Or maybe it’s like bizarro Luke Skywalker turning on the Rebel Army, but instead of a tow-headed kid from a small desert town it’s a graying country boy from Mississippi. Following a 1 [more...]
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- 10/16/2009 Red River Shootout
It seems every year the Texas-OU game has national implications. Of course, last year was a little different. Amazingly, the winner of the game (Texas), went on to lose only once all year but still did not get a shot at a Big XII title or a crystal t [more...]
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- 09/26/2009 New Falcons, Old Patriots
When the Atlanta Falcons visit the New England Patriots Sunday in Foxboro, one team will be trying to protect its ailing veteran quarterback while the other will be hoping to ride their young gunslinger to the elite levels of the NFL.Things have chan [more...]
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- 09/05/2009 Opening Day Money Maker
If Oklahoma State had any reservations about their ability to play with the big boys from another conference in 2007, the Georgia Bulldogs were happy to confirm their suspicions, letting the upstart Cowboys know that SEC football was a little bigger [more...]
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- 08/11/2009 Josh Hamilton Acts Like a Role Model
When Josh Hamilton apologized upon his return to Major League Baseball, he did and said all of the right things. Yes, he had messed up and almost thrown away a potentially lucrative and amazing career, playing a kids' game for millions of dollars. Bu [more...]
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- 08/10/2009 Big Papi and others should just stay silent
Saturday morning, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz shocked the world. In a move of unquestioned contrition, honesty and humility, Big Papi stepped up to the microphone and accepted the consequences of his actions.Right. And if you believe that, I have som [more...]
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- 08/10/2009 Ignore Hank Aaron, Pete Rose does not belong in Hall
Last month, the greats of the game gathered in pastoral Cooperstown, New York to celebrate their own. Fans flocked from across the country to see their heroes knighted. Its one of the most wonderful and American of moments in sports.And sadly, it wou [more...]
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- 06/18/2009 Who Will Stop Tiger's Reign
After seeing Tiger Woods limp around the press area following his amazing (at least as far as the adoring press was concerned) victory at the U.S. Open last year and then hearing his subsequent announcement that he would be going on the shelf for six [more...]
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- 05/20/2009 Western Conference Finals
The Utah Jazz fell apart in the last two months of the NBA season and provided little challenge to the Los Angeles Lakers, giving fans and the media no real indication of where the Lakers stood in terms of championship preparedness. The NBA Odds make [more...]
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- 05/15/2009 Celtics vs Magic Preview
Two months ago, the prospect of an Orlando vs. Boston round two match-up would have had people salivating. After the first round of this year’s Eastern Conference playoffs, it may have people more confused than anything. In that time, the Celti [more...]
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- 04/16/2009 2009 Masters | Preview of Great Things to Come
It is indeeda rarity that golf's greatest tournament can come down to a three-way playoff with a player from a country hardly ever represented at The Masters, a somewhat unknown American who has won only three times on the PGA Tour and potentially th [more...]
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- 04/04/2009 FINAL FOUR Preview: Michigan St. vs. UConn
One team comes from a wealthy state and is led by a somewhat embattled coach who many enjoy taking pot shots at. The other comes from a state as battered by recent economic woes as any in the nation and features a likable coach who will be coaching i [more...]
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- 04/04/2009 FINAL FOUR Preview: UNC vs. Villanova
While the Michigan State Spartans will look for an emotional edge from a home crowd and harken back to Magic’s finest collegiate hour in 1979 on Saturday afternoon, theVillanova Wildcats will be looking to do a little trip down memory lane them [more...]
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- 02/11/2009 A-Rod and the Steroid Era
In the spirit of Sunday night's Grammy awards, let me now quote famous American songwriter Paul Simon: "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" The innocence and beauty of America's pastoral game took another dark turn over the weekend, when it [more...]
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