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General Sports

NBA Draft: Winners and Losers

After the Madness that was the NBA draft unfolded last night at Madison Square Garden, let’s take a look at which NBA teams really helped themselves and which teams shot themselves in the foot (cough Toronto cough, cough).

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General Sports

Wanna new stadium? Call HOK

If you go to a stadium these days, there’s 101 things to do. Listen to bell ring on a home run in Philly, or watch the cars drive over the Roberto Clemente Bridge in Pittsburgh. Heck, we never knew Pittsburgh look that good.

And you know what? It’s all designed by one company. HOK Sport.

Here’s my tribute to HOK…

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General Sports

MLB Power Rankings June 29 2005

Here are the power rankings after the 12th week of MLB play this season, as always questions and comments are appreciated.

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Golf

Tiger Schmiger- Give Me Annika

You just need one word to describe Annika Sorenstam when it comes to women’s golf. Untouchable.

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Random Thoughts

America’s New Civil War

In my latest column, sports provides the foundation of deeper issues that plague this country, even after September 11, 2001.

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General Sports

Taking a Look at the 2005 NBA Draft

By Trevor Freeman

With the deadline to stay in the NBA Draft having passed, we now know who is available.  Therefore it is time to come with our first full mock draft.  Let us begin…………..

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Golf

The Most Victorious Weekend Off

Sometimes the greatest stories miss the cut by four shots.

More often than not, this is not the case. But Friday at Pinehurst, it was.

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Golf

Why Am I Watching Golf?

I have a question for you. Why am I watching golf? This is the question I have been asking myself all weekend. Golf is quite possibly one of the most captivating sports I have ever seen, but why haven’t I discovered it before.

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Boxing

Top 10 Heavyweights of All Time

The title of “Heavyweight Champion of the World” was once the most esteemed in all of sports.  It meant that whoever held that position was the baddest mf on earth.  There was a time that a heavyweight title bout would literally bring the nation to a halt.  

These fights were like mini-Superbowls, everyone would come together and root on their favorite.  Recently, title bouts go on without a whimper.  The most promising young athletes are no longer heavyweight contenders, but tight-ends and small forwards.  I’m in a “let’s make a list” mood, so here are my top 10 most influential heavyweights of all time.  

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General Sports

It’s Baseball- Have Fun!

For the last two weeks I have been watching the College World Series. I never really got into it too much, because to be honest with you I just didn’t care. But this year I am into it, I am into it like a fat kid is into Krispy Kremes.

I went to Arizona State and after seeing them finally beat Cal-State Fullerton after losing to them 3 out of 4 times in the past few years, just made me that much more excited about the CWS. But the real reason why I now love the CWS is because it is an escape from the scandalized and tainted Major League Baseball.