Archive for April 22nd, 2011

With Amare Back, Can the Knicks Finally Win One?

Posted April 22, 2011, 7:00 pm by (149 Comments)

The Garden will be buzzing tonight, and pardon me for getting hyperbolic here, but it could have a Willis Reed feel to it when Amare hits his first basket (he’s “expected” to play). Friday night, holiday weekend, game’s on ESPN, and the Yankees are out of town. Yes, it’s only the first round, but it’s [...]

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Kings To Stay In Sacramento For One More Season

Posted April 22, 2011, 6:44 pm by (8 Comments)

It really is a good Friday for Sacramento Kings fans! The Kings will supposedly remain in Sacramento for one more season if certain pledges by Mayor Kevin Johnson and local businesses are upheld. League executives told the L.A. Times the news that the Kings wouldn’t be moving today.

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Brandon Davies Will Be Welcomed Back To BYU Basketball Team

Posted April 22, 2011, 5:45 pm by (2 Comments)

Brandon Davies: The non-virgin who cost Jimmer a trip to the Final Four (Too harsh? Sorry.) Davies withdrew from school and will enroll again in the fall. BYU will welcome Brandon Davies back to the basketball team next season. “BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe and coach Dave Rose have expressed their support. And even as [...]

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Barcelona vs. Real Madrid: Soccer’s Morality Play

Posted April 22, 2011, 5:00 pm by (9 Comments)

Barcelona and Real Madrid are similar. Both have successful track records. Both fund that success through exorbitant spending. Perceptions of the club, though, are vastly different. Real Madrid follows their analogs – Man U, the Yankees or the Lakers, engendering hatred and jealousy among the disenfranchised. Barcelona, however, escapes this. Writers praise them effusively. When [...]

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Weekly Top Five: Hello Brooklyn, Oliver Miller’s Pistol, the NFL Schedule and We’re Talking About Playoffs!

Posted April 22, 2011, 4:00 pm by (41 Comments)

Each and every week, Tim Ryan and Stephanie Douglas will recap some of the bigger stories from that week. We don’t generally put much time or effort into this avalanche of a feature, but hey, what do you expect from a list with a hat? Every time we post, a penguin gets tickled.

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The Premier Basketball League Seems Fixed, But You Don’t Have To Take My Word For It

Posted April 22, 2011, 3:30 pm by (26 Comments)

The Premier Basketball League is a 6-team minor league basketball league that held its championship series recently. The Rochester Razorsharks met the Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry in the finals, but before I tell you how the game went, let me give you some background.  The league’s Chairman of the Board, Dr. Severko Hrywnak, is also the [...]

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Weight Cutting In MMA

Posted April 22, 2011, 3:15 pm by (1 Comment)

Weight Cutting: One of the most difficult parts of fighting mixed martial arts is weighing in. Ben Fowlkes takes a in-depth look at what fighters go through in the days leading up to their fights. “With twenty-four hours to go, he was twenty-four pounds over – more than he’d weighed when he began the worst [...]

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