Archive for the ‘Basketball’ Category
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
The Horizon League may well be one of the most underestimated conferences in all of college basketball. Few programs have had the success that Butler has enjoyed over the past few seasons. For some reason, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee seeded the Horizon League regular season and tournament champions as a ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
(photo courtesy of Ron Stevens)
The calling of a timeout at a college basketball game has evolved into a complicated process. The five guys who are actively participating in the game are probably happy that they don't have to participate in moving the entire bench forward about five feet.
In the photo above, ...
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Kids play with toy guns and are taught to disregard greetings from strangers at an early age. Life is working backwards on Delonte West. Real guns and a bipolar disorder are now things that stand in the way of a player coming off of his best season ever.
The Cleveland Cavaliers ...
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
All of this grumbling about Lebron James leaving Cleveland after this season is starting to really get on my nerves. Don't get me wrong, King James can pretty much pick his destination whether it be New York, Miami, or Australia. I just don't see Lebron wanting to leave Cleveland unless ...
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
The Cleveland Cavaliers are scrambling desperately to plug the holes that prevented them from winning it all last year. Anthony Parker, currently with the Toronto Raptors, is the next guy down on Danny Ferry's wish list.
Shaquille O'Neal, in my opinion, was a good signing. Leadership and experience go a long ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Cleveland failed to advance to the NBA Finals, losing to Orlando, 4-2. The Magic, on paper, have a stronger team. If you lined up all the players for The Cavs and Magic up at a playground and had Van Gundy and Brown pick teams for a game, the results would ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
More important than lifting his team to fight another day. More important than scoring 37 points. More important than posting a triple-double, was the look in Lebron James eyes late in the fourth quarter. As Dwight Howard fouled out and jawed at Lebron, the look Lebron shot back said more ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
With Cleveland's pure outside shooters (Delonte West & Mo Williams) struggling to hit outside shots, why is Zydrunas Ilgaukas outside the arc firing threes? I was never a fan of Ilgauskas shooting very far from the paint. Why not keep your biggest player close to the hoop? Maybe he would get ...
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