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Archive for August, 2009
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
This post is courtesy of Tim Gunter from 790 the Zone in Atlanta.
With a little help from his friends, John Smoltz was able to resurrect his career (at least for another game or so). After posting a 2-6 record and a 7.21 ERA with the Red Sox, Smoltz had an ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
John Dowd was hired by Major League Baseball to investigate the rumors that Pete Rose had bet on Baseball while he was the Manager of the Cincinnati Reds in the early and mid 80’s. The report, famously known as the Dowd Report, chronicled Rose’s activities and his wagers during his managerial ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Greg Paulus is the man that went from starting point guard at Duke to the starting quarterback of Syracuse for this upcoming season. I should note that he lost many of his starter's minutes in the Blue Devils' backcourt this past campaign in his senior year. How many more years ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
The 'young vet' as he refers to himself, Amir Johnson, is a fairly grizzled 22-year-old in the NBA. He was the last player selected from high school back in 2005, and mid-way through his four years, he was given some nice guaranteed money by Joe Dumars and the Pistons. But ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
How can this team possibly go out and get more stacked during the off-season? Getting back a highly motivated Tom Brady is enough of an advantage, but to add Fred Taylor, Joey Galloway, and Greg Lewis to a record breaking offense from a couple years back just doesn't seem right. ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
A year ago when Georgia Tech announced they had hired Paul Johnson to be their new football coach, none would have envisioned such early success. With 16 starters set to return, many have tabbed them as the team to beat in the ACC’s Coastal division. The Yellow Jackets will have ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Michael Clayton outlines some of the things in this interview we often overlook as fans. I mean, we can't really even evaluate locker room issues because they are a part of the sport we simply don't see, but as Clayton outlines below, the games played beyond the one on the ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
We're trying out some guest writers here on SRI as we're gearing up for the upcoming football season. This post is courtesy of Tim Gunter, who's the producer for Pollack and Bell on 790 the Zone in Atlanta.
After recently visiting many NASCAR teams like Stewart-Haas Racing in North Carolina, there ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
I guess the Oakland Raiders thought veteran fullback Lorenzo Neal was too upstanding a citizen or too reliable as a teammate and player to keep him on their roster for the 2009 season. Neal was cut Wednesday by the Raiders, leaving him without a team for the moment in what ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
If you want to talk about stand-up acts, at a position where there are maybe two or three marquee players who actually have a decent personality, Larry Fitzgerald is not only the best wide receiver in the game currently, he could also be one of the most genuine players in ...
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