Hi hello and welcome to a first instalment of EUROHOOP ARE GO!, it is a weekly summary of Euro Basketball. I extend hapiness of Hard-Wood guys to ask me of this! Was a very torrid start so far to ULEB Euroleague, two rounds so far. Biggest new was of cours huge upset of Olympaikos beating […]
Continue reading →FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TNT’s Craig Sager Offers NBA Players The Shirt Off His Back In response to Camby’s suggestion that the National Basketball Association provide players with a clothing stipend (so that players may be able to conform to the newly instituted dress code), NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager has offered to clothe NBA superstars […]
Continue reading →As the first light of morning filtered in through the Venetian blinds, I buttoned the cufflinks of my fine Sea Island cotton shirt, stared deeply into the eyes of my darling, sleeping Eva, and reflected on what a truly privileged life I live. While I awaited the arrival of my chums, I ate a breakfast […]
Continue reading →THE EAST NEEDS A BEAST Just like the last few years, the East looks to be a wide-open gritty scrap-fest that any team can win if they want it enough. Lots of folks are saying the Pistons are going to represent the East once again in the Finals, but I don’t believe that for one […]
Continue reading →My feelings about this year’s Big Eleven — oh, sorry, Big Ten — are complex. As in, inferiority complex. How many years in a row will this conference have to place teams in the Sweet Sixteen, the Elite Eight, and the Final Four before the rest of the country wakes up to the fact that […]
Continue reading →Don’t mention the 1-7 Orange football team on the Hill. Nobody’s talking about it. As far as Syracuse observers are concerned, the season’s kaput. Only an off week separates them from being ritually slaughtered by Louisville and Notre Dame and a game against a tough South Florida team; a 1-10 finish is not out of […]
Continue reading →I don’t know if any of you wingdings would ever have the stones to read us over on FOXSports. Probably not. But if you did — and if you could read anything other than the day of the week printed in block letters on the back of your tighty-whities — you’d understand that we don’t […]
Continue reading →What a ride it’s been for Larry Brown from Long Beach. Titles in Carolina and Denver. Titles in Kansas and Detroit. A bronze medal in Athens. 35 years in the business, en route to becoming the oldest coach ever to win a title. And now, at 65, Brown has finally come home to tackle his […]
Continue reading →Dear Mr. George Bodenheimer and Mr. Mark Lazarus, As the presidents of ABC, ESPN and TNT’s sports divisions, you have tremendous influence on the minds of our nation’s youth. It is not a role that anyone should take lightly. Since founding the A.C. Green Youth Foundation in 1989, I have been deeply committed to helping […]
Continue reading →Qyntel: I was housesitting for a month last winter for my parents. They have two purebred chows – cute as heck, but such a pain! I’d let them outside for their business, but they’d never come back in! Every time I went to let them in (because they’d be @ the door, snorting & whatever), […]
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