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0 comments by Bart D on 2/18/2016
There’s that point when you’re going on Spring Break to Florida or Texas or somewhere warm where you finally, after that long drive, hit within a few blocks of the hotel you’re staying at. You can smell that ocean air. Every girl walking around is a in a bikini and looks like a 10. And […]
0 comments by Bart D on 2/15/2016
It’s X-Files season for the NBA. The trade deadline is here, come Thursday, and we’re all separated into being either the tin foil hat that wants to chase down every rumor, the realist that knows the truth is somewhere in between nothing and something, and the skeptic who wouldn’t believe the mail was delivered until […]
0 comments by Bart D
A major sporting event spanned the course of multiple days, all centered in Canada, and Nickelback was in no way a part of it. You win, NBA. Seriously though, outside of painfully cold weather (but it is Toronto in February), the NBA’s All-Star foray north of the border was just another annual example of how […]
0 comments by Bart D on 2/14/2016
There is opinion. There is fact. There is sometimes opinion that is fact. And the fact is this: the NBA Slam Dunk Contest is the best individual event in team professional sports. Once again, it delivered Saturday night, won in spectacular fashion by Zach LaVine of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Like it or begrudgingly want it […]
0 comments by Bart D on 2/13/2016
There are a lot of reasons for trade rumors. If you’re a player, it may be a way of sending a passive-aggressive message that you kind of want out of where you are without flatly coming out and saying it. If you’re a team, it’s a good way to test the waters without putting it […]
0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz on 2/12/2016
ESPN has long been extremely leery of anything that can be perceived as even vaguely political, but even by those standards, they set a new record with coming out of retirement to enter the game as a player, apparently was a “suprise”) Ellen DeGeneres’ special fitness correspondent, he of YouTube fame.” Butler’s political digression was […]
