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Toronto Raptors

Gone Today- To Be Feared Tomorrow

By the time the New Jersey Nets are settled in Brooklyn and Vince Carter’s grown used to the orange color scheme employed by the Charlotte Bobcats, his seasons of wincing and whining in a Toronto Raptors uniform and all the bitterness they created will be long forgotten.

And just as the days of the lowly Phoenix Suns have given birth to potential NBA champions, the Raptors will shed the past and almost certainly emerge as what we glibly call a “contender.”

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MLB General

What’s The Use?

It’s still weeks away, and I already feel like Super Bowl XLI is going to be one of the most boring sporting events of my lifetime.

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MLB General

Oprah Hendry & The Cubs

Since they last won the World Series in 2000, the New York Yankees have spent $1 billion on players who, in the grand scheme of things, delivered nothing but headline material for the New York Post and proved that while you can sometimes buy competitiveness, you can never buy a championship.

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MLB General

What A Putz

Even knowing as much as I do about baseball, there are still certain things I just don’t get.

One of them is why players wear sunglasses on top of their hats while in the field, and another is how the Oakland Athletics could possibly have let reliever Eric Plunk get away during the 1989 season, when they were destined to acquire hurler Joe Klink the following year.

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MLB General

Brave New World

If Bobby Cox and John Smoltz have anything to say to each other after 17 years with the Atlanta Braves, it’s probably something like, “Let’s get the hell out of here.”

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NBA General

Caught In A Draft

Suggesting as many do, that making the right decision at the NBA draft is an “imperfect science,” is making an understatement at absolute best.

Over the years I’ve discovered even the most adept general managers, ones that spend months or years watching players develop, still have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.

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MLB General

Blue Again

“Hope springs eternal” is the most commonly-used cliché applied to the start of every baseball season. But I don’t like it, mostly because I don’t think it applies. Hope doesn’t spring eternal for the Royals for more than six weeks, and then they’re 14 games back and scouting the next draft. For them it’s more like hope springs for a month and a half.

So for my lead, I’m going to dive back into the bag of tricks and grab, “everything old is new again.” It’s the perfect way to describe that return of the Grand Old Game, and it applies this year more than ever.

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General Sports

The Combine Blues

There are some things about sports that don’t blow me away. Some things that are sick and represent the worst aspects of humanity. One of those things is the NFL draft scouting combine.

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General Sports

"World" Baseball Classics

I am going to love the World Baseball Classic. It doesn’t really matter what happens, it’s going to be awesome.

Even if the Dominican Murders’ Row easily reduces all opposing pitching to a series of puddles or the American staff is as untouchable as LeBron at the trade deadline, just seeing The Grand Old Game seasoned with this type of international flavor is sure to be special.

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General Sports

The Next Big- Undersold Ticket

Sports Illustrated is about to tell the sports world just how good Chris Bosh really is. Somewhere in their upcoming feature, I have to assume, will be the words Kevin Garnett.