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Archive for February, 2010

Coach K Has No Interest in Leaving Duke Right Now

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Mike Krzyzewski is one of the most successful coaches in College Basketball history, he has the court named after him at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and he runs a highly successful program every single season. On top of that, he is one of the most prominent faces of College Basketball. Yet ...

Joe Dumars Hopes The Rebuilding Process Doesn’t Take Long

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Joe Dumars and the Pistons have a losing record at the All-Star break for the first time since the ’00 -‘01 season, his first year as the architect in the Motor City and the last time the Pistons finished the season with a losing record. Since his first year, the ...

Rick Carlisle Thinks the Mavericks Can Compete for an NBA Championship

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

With the NBA trade deadline looming on Thursday afternoon, teams across the league are running out of time to decide if they want to try to improve their rosters for the stretch run or if they're going to try to unload their hefty contracts and lower their expenses because they ...

Is This the Year Joe Torre Guides the Dodgers to the World Series?

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

The Los Angeles Dodgers have knocked on the door of October glory the past two seasons. In 2008, Joe Torre's first year as skipper, the Dodgers were bounced by the Philadelphia Phillies one round short of the Fall Classic, and last year, LA suffered a similar fate falling to the ...

Baron Davis is Still Happy in LA

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Despite the fact that the Los Angeles Clippers were downright awful last season, there were fairly lofty expectations for the Clips at the beginning of the 2009-2010 season. The Clippers used the #1 overall pick on Oklahoma's Blake Griffin, and almost everybody thought the bruising big man was NBA-ready and ...

Al Horford and the Atlanta Hawks Continue to Soar

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Like last year, the Atlanta Hawks have soared in the first half of the season.  At the All-Star break, they are currently the number three seed in the Eastern Conference and are one and a half games out of first place in the Southeast Division behind the Orlando Magic. In ...

Joe Girardi Has A Bunch of Questions That Need To Be Answered

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The New York Yankees may be the reigning World Series Champions but that doesn’t mean their roster is set for the 2010 season. With spring training just around the corner, Joe Girardi has plenty of personnel decisions to make, most notably who will start in centerfield position and who will ...

The Big Hurt Will Not Be Hurting For Votes for the Hall of Fame

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The summer of 2014 will be a big summer for Frank Thomas. That’s the summer when he can be elected into baseball’s Hall-of-Fame. In my mind, it’s not even a question about whether or not he will get in, but how many votes he will receive the first time he ...

Tragedy Strikes Before The Games Begin

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The 2010 Winter Olympics got off to a horrible start last Friday when Nodar Kumaritashvilii, a luger from the country of Georgia, died after he flew off the track into a steel pole at more than eighty miles per hour. When I first heard about the tragedy I wasn’t quite ...

Carmelo Anthony Knows that the Road to the NBA Finals Runs Through Los Angeles

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Despite having to deal with a couple of different injuries this year, Carmelo Anthony is having one of the best seasons of his career. Melo is third in the NBA in scoring and is averaging the most points per game of his career. His play, along with the play of ...