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Archive for February, 2009
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Raja Bell is a great NBA story. He was a mid-season pick-up by the 2000/2001 Philadelphia 76ers that lost to the Lakers in the NBA Finals. He was recommended to Larry Brown by his good friend Greg Popovich and Brown gave Bell his first chance on an NBA roster. Bell ended ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
In my opinion, Jordan Gross was going to be the most highly recruited free agent in all of football. The Carolina Panthers put a stop to that by signing him to a huge six-year contract that included the richest first three-year payout for an offensive lineman in NFL history. The ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
From the first day he stepped on the football field for the Houston Texans, DeMeco Ryans has been one of the best middle linebackers in football. Mario Williams was the more acclaimed player and the first pick in the draft, but it was Ryans that won the NFL Defensive Player ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
I'm personally not surprised that former NC State head coach Herb Sendek has turned the Arizona State Sun Devils basketball program around in such a short period of time. The expectations put upon him in Tar Heel country were absurd and totally stood in the way of people objectively appreciating ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
There's not much time to lament another loss in the NFC Championship game if you are Andy Reid, the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Reid joined ESPN Radio Milwaukee on Sunday to talk about nothing of consequence actually. But there's one damn funny story about former players Earl Dotson and ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
This whole blog thing is still so new to me. I'm reading websites all day for work and for play so I figured I'd create this new daily section. Yes, the name is boring, but it's true and simple enough. Every day, I'll start linking to some of my favorite ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Earlier this decade when the Oakland Athletics were making a name for themselves, slugger Jason Giambi was putting up huge numbers in the middle of their lineup. A huge free agent deal, strange injury problems, performance enhancing drugs issues and ultimately zero World Series titles in New York, and Giambi ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Stats Inc NFL Draft guru Todd McShay checked in with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio on Monday from the NFL Scouting Combine. The big story as McShay mentions to Colin, was the mystery disappearance of Alabama G Andre Smith.
"He's hired, fired, and re-hired a trainer. And wasn't sure if he ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
My guess is he's liking it just fine. South Beach compared to the relative anonymity of NBA life in Toronto? Yeah. O'Neal joined the Heat last week when the Raptors dealt him and Jamario Moon to Miami for The Matrix Shawn Marion and reserve PG Marcus Banks. After losing the ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
You know the story by now - the Toronto Raptors dealt Jermaine O'Neal and Jemario Moon to the Miami Heat in exchange for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks. Miami is trying to cling to a playoff berth while Toronto basically has next to no time at all left to get ...
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