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Suns Eye Red Sox Blueprint

When the Phoenix Suns came out and got pummeled at home last Friday night to fall behind 3-0 in their series with the San Antonio Spurs, I couldn’t help but think back to the fall of 2004, when the Boston Red Sox went home to Fenway and got pounded by a score of 19-8. That [...]

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Washington’s Almost Out Of Options

After Cleveland’s 100-97 victory over Washington on Sunday, head coach Eddie Jordan has to now be asking himself the proverbial question, “What else can I do?” Jordan challenged his team to play harder and smarter prior to Game 3, and the Wizards came out and absolutely spanked the Cavaliers, 108-72. At the start of the [...]

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Buzzer Beaters - 04/27

* A new reality show with Carmelo Anthony called Carmelo’s Way is being filmed and the trailer is now online. * Matt Moore has a great interview with David West where he talked with the Hornets All-Star forward about the value of napping, how important the “pick-and-pop” has been for the Hornets this season and his [...]

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Raptors Kryptonite Renders Superman Helpless

Through the first two games of the NBA playoffs, the Orlando Magic called on power forward Dwight Howard to be their superhero. Howard answered the call averaging 27 points and 21 rebounds per game as the Magic took a two-game lead in the series. In the first half of Game 3, things appeared to be [...]

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Wizards’ Success Lies in Agent Zero’s Absence

The good news for the Washington Wizards is they successfully bounced back from the 30 point loss on Sunday and defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers, 108-72 on their home floor. DeShawn Stevenson led the team with 19 points and Caron Butler contributed 17. LeBron James, who had been dominant in the first two games, was held [...]

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Passing the Guard by Passing the Rock

On June 26, 2008, Kevin Love will be seated in the NBA Draft’s greenroom in Madison Square Garden waiting patiently for commissioner David Stern to call his name. The UCLA freshman phenom will likely be a lottery pick in this year’s draft, as his game possesses a laundry list of desirable qualities. His high basketball [...]

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Tracy McGrady: Pleasure and Pain

There’s a Ben Harper song called “Pleasure and Pain” I’ve always enjoyed, both for it’s simple elegance, and for the way in which the the song’s theme mirrors the way I feel while listening to it. It’s a bittersweet, nostalgic song and when hearing it, I inevitably feel a sense of my own bittersweet nostalgia, [...]

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Lakers Stick To Plan While Nuggets Struggle To Find One

On Saturday night during the early rounds of the Calzaghe/Hopkins light heavyweight title fight one of the announcers had a very astute observation about what had being going on in the fight through the first few rounds. The announcer said that Hopkins seemed to have a great plan that he was sticking to, while Calzaghe [...]

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Tim Duncan’s Political Swag

An often misattributed saying goes “If you’re a republican in your 20’s, you have no heart, but if you’re a democrat in your 30’s, you have no brain.” It’s been adapted over the years from comments allegedly made by Winston Churchill in the 1950s, but think about it long enough and it might just apply [...]

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Game Recap: Cavaliers 93, Wizards 86

To get in real deep into the cracks and crevices of this game, we need to go back to Gilbert Arenas getting hurt and finally coming back. Before his injury, and a bit afterwards, Arenas was hinting at possibly opting out of DC and testing the free agent waters elsewhere. However, Agent Zero miraculously, by [...]

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