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Bill Simmons’s latest contains what may well be the most insane Ron Artest story of all time:
Here’s what happened: Artest missed the first two team buses (the ones for players, coaches and team personnel) from Houston’s hotel to the Staples Center and barely made the third and final bus, which was reserved for business staff, [...]
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by JL Wall
‘Days after the murder of the NFL quarterback Steve McNair, one typically remorseful sportswriter put it this way: “We throw out silly words, often referring to [athletes'] on-field efforts as ‘heroic.’ They are not heroes … Heroes drive around your town in patrol cars … Heroes teach our children … They try to [...]
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by JL Wall
Dear ESPN (and others),
The plural of “run batted-in” is “runs batted-in” — not “run batted-ins.” Similarly, the plural of the abbreviation “RBI” is, in fact, “RBI” — “RBIs” in all its ungrammatical anti-glory just makes me cringe. In the name of DiMaggio’s hitting streak, please stop writing it that way. As a bonus [...]
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So Ben Gordon is off to Detroit, and my views on the matter are frankly much closer to those of the Bulls bloggers who think it’s for the best than those of the folks who, well, really really don’t.
I mean, don’t get me wrong: Gordon is an absolutely terrific player, and ranks up there [...]
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Long-time readers of this blog will know that I’ve been pretty hard on the Yankees, but watching the highlights of Mariano Rivera’s 500th career save last night – a strikeout looking to get out of a jam in the bottom of the 8th and then a one-hit 9th, sandwiched around his first career RBI (of [...]
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So I’m pretty sure that I’m not with Conor on the Shaq-to-Cleveland trade: if the Cavs want to win now (which they’d better, since they might not have LeBron much longer), then it’s probably the best move they could have made. But Vince Carter to the Magic? Really? For Rafer Alston, Tony Battie, and Courtney [...]
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by JL Wall
Like Steve Stone, I wasn’t exactly surprised to read about Sammy Sosa testing positive for steroids in 2003. It was the kind of thing we all knew was going on, but no one ever wanted to admit it. I (like the very rumpled-looking George Will ESPN put on TV at 11pm that night) [...]
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Granting that Kobe Bryant is playing absolutely sick basketball and that Pau Gasol is every bit as consistently terrific as his look and general shtick are consistently annoying (which is to say: as hell), can anyone think of a recent Finals team featuring more walking question-marks in crucial roles than the current installment of the [...]
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In case you thought I was the only one who felt this way:
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Unlike, say, Freddie, I’m not one for conspiracy theories, nor do I think it’s wise to make the case for trends that may reflect little more than confirmations of my own biases (as Will puts it, the bad calls went both ways last night, and there were two plays in overtime where Dwight Howard defended [...]
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