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Archive for February, 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010
CC Sabathia got an enormous contract last year in free agency from the Yankees and while some questioned giving the hefty lefty who has had some postseason struggles that kind of cash, Sabathia earned every penny of that contract. In his first year in New York, CC went 19-8 with ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Every year there are plenty of college football players that decide to forgo their remaining years of eligibility and enter the NFL Draft. Most of them, in my opinion, have made the wrong decision and should have stayed in school to polish their skills, but every now and then there is ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
For a long time, John Daly has been one of the most colorful personalities on the PGA Tour and now he wears some outfits that match that personality. It has been a roller coaster ride for John Daly throughout his life on and off the course. On the course John ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Each season at the NBA trade deadline, teams are looking to get better in hopes of bolstering their roster for an extended playoff run. The Wizards and Mavericks seven-player deal did just that. In this deal, Washington traded Caron Butler, DeShawn Stevenson and Brendan Haywood to Dallas in exchange for ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Not long ago, the Connecticut Huskies basketball team looked to be dead in the water. UCONN had lost five of six after falling at home to the Cincinnati Bearcats. It was Coach Jim Calhoun's first game back following a 3 1/2 week absence due to health issues. With the loss, ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Have you ever had a gambling debt and had someone pull a pistol on you? Not me! But apparently that is what happened this past Christmas Eve in the Washington Wizards locker room at the Verizon Center in D.C. Gilbert Arenas was too cheap to make good on his gambling ...
Posted in NBA, Uncategorized, Washington Wizards | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 26th, 2010
(Editor's note/apology: In Linda Cohn's first quote that we've transcribed below, SRI initially put the word "slime" in by mistake where it should have said "time". That obviously changes the tone contextually of her remark. I know a few websites linked to the story and we here at SRI are ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
The Denver Broncos faded down the stretch in a big way, but if you ask me, their 2009 season was largely still a successful one. I suppose when you start a season 6-0 and fail to make the playoffs, it's hard to chalk things up as a success, but think ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
After a disappointing early exit from the playoffs last year, the Red Sox went out this off-season to try and make sure that doesn’t happen two years in a row. While the team lost one of their best hitters, Jason Bay, to the New York Mets in free agency, they ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Yesterday on SRI we featured an interview with Oregun Ducks head coach Chip Kelly and John Canzano on 95.5 The Game in Portland. To say it was contentious would be somewhat of an understatement. Canzano basically told Kelly he thought he was running his program poorly, going so far at ...
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