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Tim Tebow, the Denver Broncos, and the U.C.L.A. Bruins: The Joy (and importance) of Sports
I was there last Sunday. Tim Tebow Highlights 2011 2012 Broncos DEMARYIUS THOMAS (via stumpshus) Perhaps some of you saw the highlights of this game. Maybe some of you have even heard of this Tim Tebow guy. As with the BCS game, I thought maybe Tebow wasn't being adequately covered in...
Kentucky Wildcat Basketball: Eight for Eight
As the sun rises on yet another Kentucky basketball season, giving birth to the same questions and discussions that take place every year in anticipation of what is to come, the urgency of the dawning season suddenly takes center stage. For this year, what is at stake is a very real chance to take...
Six Degrees Of Cam Cameron
Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron has a long history in the coaching ranks, but his ties to other coaches, both in football and otherwise, go way back to his childhood days. According to an interesting article in Football News Now, Cameron used to go to work with his stepfather,...
NBA Draft 2011: Pacers Will Workout Six Players, But Not In Front Of Coach Frank Vogel
The NBA Draft is still plenty of weeks away, but the pre-draft workouts are in full-swing with second round prospects all over the country. Today's featured workout, however, is Indiana as the Pacers plan to host JaJuan Johnson (Purdue), Justin Harper (Richmond), Corey Fisher (Villanova), Darius...
A Birthday Tribute to Larry Bird
I owe my love of basketball to three people: my cousins Pat and Billy, and Larry Bird. My cousins were older, and if you grew up in a close family you know how that goes. I didn't just like my cousins; I idolized them. I wanted to replicate everything they did, from the way they talked to the way...
Today in Sports History: November 9th
11/09/1984 - Bird 42, Erving 6 In an early-season meeting between the Sixers and Celtics, the star players on both teams got ejected after fighting. Larry Bird, ever the trash talker, thoroughly outplayed an aging Julius Erving. Erving went just 3-13 for six points while Bird hooked up for 42...
ESPN's Fans Suddenly Insane: All-Time Bulls beat All-Time Celtics
ESPN's pretty ridiculous contest (they had the nerve to include Seattle Supersonics greats on the list of Oklahoma City's all-time list. Heartless.) of ranking each franchise's "Top Starting Five" is now in the semi-finals stage. Last round, not that any of us were paying attention, a starting 5 of...
Seth Davis's When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball
Way back in February, a publicity group offered to send me a copy of the paperback edition of Seth Davis's book on Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and the 1979 NCAA championship game. I jumped at the chance, figuring I'd have a long month ahead of me in March with nothing happening on the college...
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