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The US men’s basketball team completed their preliminary round at 5-0 and won their first knock-out game yesterday by 40 points over Australia. I think it’s safe to say (again) that these guys are quite a bit better than our recent pro teams. There are still two main concerns for our guys though – half-court…
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Eagle in Atlanta has yet another impressive interview with a “real” sports personality, Andy Katz. If he keeps this up, he’s going to give us seat-of-the-pants, non-professional types a bad name. Earlier, he landed Bob Ryan – Part I, Part II.
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Ned Barnett of the News & Observer wrote a nice piece this weekend about how the local track empire of Trevor Graham is in ruins. You could take Barnett’s article and take it a step or two further – the entire sport of track and field – like cycling – is rubble. There was a…
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Do you love basketball? Do you like basketball? If so, then you owe it to yourself to watch the US team play in the FIBA World Championships. Yeah, the games are at bad times, but set your TiVo (get one first, if you don’t. You MUST have a Tivo.) and thank me later. Our boys…
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If I had to rank the 2002 national championship Maryland Terrapins in order of “most likely to be arrested for firing a gun out of a moving car,” I’d probably have gone something like this: 1. Byron Mouton 2. Billy Hahn 3. Chris Wilcox 4. Steve Blake … 12. Hassan Fofanananadana (I know – he…
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I have to try harder not to fall behind on my David Glenn reading. Glenn has a nice post about North Carolina’s “Big Four” ACC teams and how (and why) they are struggling right now in football. The most interesting part of his post is the section where he breaks down the number of Division…
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I was sealing the grout in my kitchen floor last night and decided I needed some background noise to break the tedium. I flipped on the TV and there was the US basketball team, playing an exhibition game against Puerto Rico. The last time I watched our national team play the Puerto Ricans, they were…
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The friendship that developed between Jim Valvano and Mike Krzyzewski after Valvano retired from NC State is well chronicled. Coach K and his wife are still quite active in the various V Foundation activities in the area. The boys at The Red and White From State have dug up a story that sheds a little…
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You probably remember the mgoblog, it’s the site that put together the BlogPoll for college football (yes, I’m a voter). Brian, mgoblog’s creator has evidently forked over $10K of his own money and went out to Vegas to play in the WSOP. According to this entertaining update, he made it through Day 1 and managed…
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Could Floyd Landis become bike racing’s Ben Johnson? Top of the world one day and the sport’s signature goat the next? I certainly hope not, but reports are that Landis has failed blood tests. The tests showed unusually high testosterone levels on the day he made his miraculous ride. Bad news. They’re going to run…