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 When bit players spoil the big momentsAnd to think it was all started by a total afterthought named Lance Stephenson. In case you missed it, the Heat-Pacers game turned into first-round pucks last night with gratuitous elbows and cheap shots and, surely to all that is...
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 Of Orlando, the Lakers, the Royals (the real ones) and great, great TVThe first reaction from the first league person I talked to after word first broke that Stan Van Gundy and Otis Smith were out in Orlando yesterday was pretty succinct: "You can't be surprised." Oh, no. There was no surprise...
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 The emotion of the moment makes this a special timeOne of the greatest things about sports playoffs - and it has to speak to the media overkill of having to come up with a narrative that could run for the better part of a fortnight - is the daily...
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 The end of the weekend mailEnjoy this and then go enjoy what looks like a gorgeous day; maybe there's a patio in your future as I hope there is in mine. - Q: Thanks for all the genuine writing good sir. Which international teams might...
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 The start of the weekend mailHello, folks. Not too many left over for tomorrow and I've got a few hours this afternoon while watching the Champions League final before putting a big hunk of red meat on the barbecue to putter around so there's time...
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 Heat's failings have to be bringing joy to someI imagine there is an awful lot of glee floating around these days about the plight of the Miami Heat. The team so many love to hate - and for a lot of right reasons, actually - looks beaten, bowed...
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 Sometimes, the better team just winsI'm sure there'll be all kinds of hand-wringing today about what's wrong with the Lakers and how they can be two games down to the Thunder in their playoff series after losing last night. Answer's easy: They're not as good....
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 Oak, KG, Hemingway and Hobbs? We've got it all here todayInteresting comment from a reader yesterday about KG and whether or not he's Oak. No way. Not in a billion years. (And, please, I don't know where the cockamamie idea that he'd be a Raptor came from but it has...
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 It's travel time for the Raptors talent evaluatorsLewis and Clark time for Bryan and The Henchman. While we've been waiting - impatiently, in many cases - for the May 30 lottery to find out how easy it's going to be for them to trade the pick for...
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 Golf need something and OKC has something to proveAnother in our series of relatively unrelated notes because, well, partly because there was too much going on over the weekend and partly because not one thing truly stood out. - Is this just a changing of the times or...
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 The end of the weekend mailYou did it again, fine people. Lots of good stuff in here and if you can pull yourselves away from various Mother's Day celebrations (and a sincere Happy Mother's all of you out there) you might be entertained and informed....
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 The start of the weekend mailAnother late rally by you folks so enjoy these and if a few of you come through today there'll be about the same amount here tomorrow. Me? My first baseball practice of the year is today, can't wait to see...
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 Kobe goes all Kobe on the Lakers; and Mom's the wordYou know what has to be one of the toughest jobs in sports? Being Kobe Bryant's teammate. Here you've got a guy with off-the-charts talent and a desire to win that borders on the pathological; a fellow who demands more...
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 Some singing, some dancing and a lost careerHmm. I had to do some searching on our website to find this fine piece of scribbling, so I presume you did, too. But it's worth reading because this is a pretty good team, a bunch of women that I've...
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 The Nash appointment works on so many different levelsI remember back in 2007 either saying to or writing of Wayne Parrish after his appointment as Grand Poobah of Canada Basketball that I didn't know if the job of revitalizing that organization could be done but, if it could,...
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 Nash news nothing but good; and Reggie's still being ReggieBasketball? You want basketball? Yeah, we've got some today. - I'm hearing that the good folks at Canada Basketball are putting a new, old face on the senior men's program today. Dude by the name of Nash. Steve Nash. They...
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 The Derby, Dravecky and friendly advice for NBA GMsBeen a while since we've done a series of totally unrelated things in this little space. But that's what we've got today. - I paid scant attention to the Kentucky Derby - and judging by the buzz in my little...
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 The end of the weekend mailWell, well, well. Ask and ye shall receive. Well done, folks. Looks like a nice day coming, could very well be time to break out the barbecue around here. - Q: Since it's that time of year again (playoffs), I...
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 The start of the weekend mailOkay, here's the deal. It's Friday afternoon, I've been puttering around for a couple of hours on this and don't want to work any more. So we're done for the day and since I have no life we'll be back...
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 Most dominant ever? Here's one for the top of the listWhen the discussion gets around to the most dominant athletes of our time, there a few names that always come popping up. We hear about Tiger Woods for those years, Sampras than Federer and then Nadel. There was Jordan and...
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 Who doesn't like watching the circusWell, that was a rather boring basketball night, wasn't it? You're going to get them over the course of almost two months of games every night and, frankly, if you're going to watch all the time, maybe a night totally...
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 Coaching questions will abound; oh, and some fashion, tooCame as little surprise that Gregg Popovich out in San Antonio was named NBA coach of the year yesterday, he did a masterful job massaging an old roster that needed rest and was hit by some injuries and coaxed it...
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 Stoudemire's selfish act was off-the-charts stupidI hate selfish athletes, guys who do things with only themselves in mind, athletes whose actions are not only going to hurt themselves but those who rely on them. Hello, Amar'e Stoudemire. Look, we've all been frustrated when things go...
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 Ready for some late-night greatness?Great. Guess we're all going to have to change the sleeping patterns if the only good games in the NBA playoffs are going to be the last ones of the night. For a fella who generally ends the evenings prone...
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 The end of the weekend mailWell, that was quite some day to open the playoffs, wasn't it? Sad, horrible injuries, a great game and it was nice to see 10 hours or so of high-level intensity. Have at this until today's action starts, if you...
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