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Muggsy Bogues Ed Geth Ralph Sampson Randolph Childress Yvon Joseph Charlie Ward Harold Deane Ronald Curry Ilian Evtimov Sam Perkins Tiki Barber Michael Jordan Antawn Jamison Steve Francis … have a Happy New Year! See ya’ll in 2006.
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There are only two more shopping days until Christmas and if you are still trying to find just the right thing for a special ACC fan, I have your solution. The 2005 Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook. I got an email a while back from Chris Dortch, the editor of this tome asking me if…
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In my article on Shavlik Randolph the other day, I wrote about why I rarely make absolute predictions. I don’t because I understand that humans and athletic competitions are inherently unpredictable. If outcomes could be 100% determined ahead of time, competition would be no fun. Al Featherston recently wrote a much longer and better article…
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Barry Jacobs of the Duke Basketball Report has a very interesting chart of twenty-win seasons by ACC teams since 1980. Twenty wins is a good cutoff point for a good year, since it likely means a team either made the NCAA tourney or made a deep run in the NIT. While the two titans are,…
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If you knew me personally, you’d know that I’m not really a black and white kind of guy. I always see shades of gray. Maybe it’s my scientific background, but if a future event has even a slight possibility, I consider that a real possibility and I won’t declare any other outcome as absolute. That’s…
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This is exactly the reason why all newspapers should drug test their reporters. Words fail me.
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Now this is funny. You’ve probably picked up on the frustration in Detroit with the state of their football team. The team has generally been bad for decades, but ever since Matt Millen took over as GM, things have gotten even worse, despite drafting a wide receiver in the first round every year. The Lion…
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This past weekend (yeah, it’s been a busy week for me), Maryland’s men’s soccer team defeated New Mexico to win the national championship. All championships are special, but this one was extra nice for the Terps, since it was their fourth straight trip to the College Cup (that’s soccer’s name for the final four. The…
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Every wonder who the most corrupt college basketball programs are? Every wonder which one was/is the worst of them all? Well, so did Bob Cook of Flak Magazine, so he picked the top 32 and made a tournament out of it. The champion? Kentucky barely edged out UCLA largely due to a longstanding tradition of…
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J.J. Redick is easily the most hated player in college basketball. He’s the most hated player in years. In fact, you probably have to go back to another pair of Dukies, Christian Laettner and Bobby Hurley, to find someone who generates so much ill will. But for whatever reasons you have for not liking the…