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Brian McCormick Interview

By Ryan McNeill Over the past few months I’ve been fortunate enough to chat with Brian McCormick via email about the coaching philosophies in his book last week I had the pleasure of recording an interview with him. During the interview we talked about his book “Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development,” his [...]

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Stem Cell Research and Pro Athletes

By Ryan McNeill While searching around on the ‘net I found an interesting article in the Toronto Star called “Athletes Make Babies For Sport” where writer Randy Starkman talks about professional soccer players in Europe who have started to harvest stem cells from their newborn’s umbilical cord for doctors to use to treat career-threatening injuries. Starkman begins [...]

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SAT Scores and NCAA Scholarships

By Ryan McNeill While reading through Darcy Frey’s book “The Last Shot” one of the themes that really stuck out was the way that high school athletes are tricked and exploited as journalists, coaches and countless other adults tell kids in inner cities that if they want a better life they can obtain that through an [...]

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Book Review: “Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich”

By Ryan McNeill I was fortunate to be sent a copy of Mark Kriegel’s book “Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich” to review on HoopsAddict.com and after picking it up Sunday afternoon and I wasn’t able to put the book down until I had devoured all 323 pages of this epic biography. Since I’m in [...]

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I Sang At The Air Canada Centre Tonight

By Ryan McNeill Why was I singing at the Raptors game you ask? Well, my friend Jamie was given tickets from his mom’s law firm because they were unable to give them away to clients. These weren’t normal seats that I’m used to sitting in for games (think Sprite Zone) - these bad boys were less [...]

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Hey! Whatever Happened To Trajan Langdon?

By Brian Taylor As the March Madness fairy brings lots of games and goodies to sports fans everywhere this week, I’m continuing my quest to remind some of you readers out there of the stars of yesteryear, that may (or may not) have made it to the league. Everyone knows my disdain for that school in Durham, [...]

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Hey! Whatever Happened To God Shammgod?

By Brian Taylor March Madness has set upon us (finally), and boy is it a sight for sore eyes. All the conference tourneys are wrapping up and more and more teams are getting their shiny little invites to “the Big Dance”. In the spirit of the season (I’m sending “Happy March Madness” cards to all my [...]

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Interview With Charlotte Bobcats Assistant Coach Gary Kloppenburg

By Ryan McNeill I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Charlotte Bobcats assistant coach Gary Kloppenbury for 5 Star Hoops. I was able to chat with Gary about what it’s been like to work for a coach who has him since he was a child, who some of his mentors are, the challenges and rewards that [...]

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