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A Boy and Bobby Murcer

Our baby sitter Alison has an expression that my wife and I have grown to love: sharing is caring. And while she uses it mainly to referee possession disputes between our 3 year-old twins, I like to think she also means something more profound: sharing is the ultimate demonstration of love and caring for small children. If you need proof, witness the bond that toddlers have with those who play with them on the floor. Dropping to their altitude elicits smiles and offers of everything from toys to soggy crackers.

So it is that merely sharing a first name with the Yankee centerfielder in the early seventies was enough for me to become an adoring, mildly obsessed fan. Bobby Murcer was a pillar of my childhood.

NBA General

NBA Power Rankings March 1st 2005

Post author By J Deuce
Post date March 1, 2005
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The NBA Power Rankings are back! Thanks to all who voted for the NBA Midseason awards last week.
As usual, all comments and complaints are welcomed.

MLB General

Red Sox – Yankees in ’05: Who’s Got the Edge?

Post author By Boston Rambler
Post date March 1, 2005
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Even though there is more than a foot of snow outside my door, it is once again time to start talkin’ baseball. And what better way to start off the spring, than to compare the Sox and Yankees? Both teams certainly made headlines this winter and there are a lot of new faces to be accounted for. Let’s start with a position by position analysis.

New York Mets

Oh Captain- My Captain: The Mets Search for a New Captain

Post author By ScubaSteve
Post date March 1, 2005
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Is it really necessary to have a captain in baseball? No, good god, no it isn’t. There are certain players who are so influential to a team that they are named captain. One is Jeter (My stomach actually hurts now), and it took him 5 years to be named captain. He is the quintessential Yankee, and that is why he was named captain.

Willie Randolph has decided that he will look to name a captain for his “new” Mets. But who on this team can you immediately say is captain worthy? Who is the quintessential Met? Well, the quintessential Met would be a player like Eddie Murray, Roberto Alomar, or Bobby Bonilla. These were the type guys that were great on other teams before coming to the Mets. I swear to god, the Mets are where good players go to die.

College Basketball

I Can’t See a Single Storm Cloud in the Sky

Post author By bsd987
Post date March 1, 2005
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So here we are again.

The conference tournaments are just now starting. The mid-major teams are just beginning to be shown on TV. cbssportsline.com is just starting to write incorrect statements about college basketball.

New York Yankees

The Trot Nixon situation

I’ve been kept awake thinking of how to write about the latest round of prepubescent bitching between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.

Boston Celtics

WalkerGate Scandal has him Dazed and Confused

Post author By sgabekahn
Post date February 28, 2005
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Few things that happen in the NBA surprise me. When Gary Payton was first traded to the Celtics in the off-season, I knew exactly why the move was made. When Vince Carter was traded to the Nets for next to nothing, I disagreed, but understood the thinking of the Toronto brass. When Chris Webber was traded to the Sixers for three overpaid power forwards, I believed that the Kings could have gotten more for the man who made Sacramento a basketball power, but the reasoning for the trade was clear to me.

When I found out that Antoine Walker had been traded back to the Celtics my jaw dropped and I’m still trying to figure out exactly how and why it happened.

All Other Sports

Who Let the Dogs Out? Seriously

Post author By dailytailgate
Post date February 28, 2005
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A night at the dog show. Bad times.

Golden State Warriors

Reversal of Fortune

Now that the champagne bottles are all empty, and all the guests have gone home, the Golden State Warriors and their fans can now go back to living their normal lives. As is the case every year, Warriors fans worked themselves into a frenzy over which player their team might acquire before the trade deadline, all based on some hot rumor they received from their mailman who knows someone who knows someone’s cousin. But today is different from every other post-deadline Friday: there’s no hangover. Warriors fans woke up Friday morning and the hottie was still in their bed. This wasn’t just some dream we had about a 6-foot bowling ball of a point guard who would dunk over his own mother if she was guarding the lane. No, this really happened. The Warriors made a franchise-altering trade in February, and for once, we’re not the ones who took it on the chin.

NFL General

Is It Time to Tweak the Rules

Post author By Robert Janis
Post date February 26, 2005
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The highlight of a career for a professional athlete is to be inducted into his or her sport’s hall of fame. One of the most distinguished Halls of Fame is the Pro Football shrine in Canton, Ohio.

The best of the best who ever played professional football are enshrined there. A day walking through the hallowed halls there will put one face-to-face with the busts of Red Grange, Ernie Nevers, Jim Brown, Johnny Unitas, Sonny Jurgensen, Jim Thorpe, et al.