Since the inception of the original Dream Team in 1992, a gold medal has always been a given for the men’s U.S. Olympic basketball team. Allen Iverson shows up late for practice and Team USA brings home the gold in basketball, some things in life are always certain. Well times are sure changing my friends. The 2004 version of the Dream Team has made winning a gold medal look like a pipe dream. There is still time, but only if they can overcome a few glaring shortcomings.
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Tantrum University
From the masters to the mimics
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Last night, before the Yankees pounded his Blue Jays 10-3, Carlos Delgado added to the long and celebrated list of sports figures who, in light of world events, have chosen a sporting environment as a place to stage protests by choosing not to stand for the patriotic hymn “God Bless America.” in doing this, however, he failed to deliver his message and therefore has been vilified. Why? Not so much for his views as for his mode of expression. Thus, I offer to help my fellow American (Delgado is Peurto Rican) by offering a how-to on expressing discontent, from a veritable who’s-who of hell no.
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How to Run a Kick-Ass Golf Tournament
By Ryan McGowan
If you think back to summers when you were a kid, they all kind of blend together. Summer memories all evoke a certain nostalgia: long, lazy days in the pool, unending games of stickball, wiffleball, tennisball, or whatever games you played to pass the time, running from adults after sneaking into their yard to retrieve a home run ball, following the baseball standings, reading the box scores. Of course, some of our readers might have different memories of being chased, in this case by the cops or jealous girlfriends rather than by fascist neighbors. Either way, the summers of one’s childhood tend to be a hazy collection of blurred, pleasant memories.
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Texas Hold ‘Em: The Real World
On Tuesday I ventured down to the Wonder of It All, Foxwoods Resort Casino in lovely southeastern Connecticut. (I pledge that that is the last time I will ever use the words “lovely” and “Connecticut” in the same sentence.) As a former high school teacher and future graduate student, you can imagine I have a lot of time on my hands this summer. And, as I so aptly rationalized, what better way to spend said free time than in a smoky, tacky, leech-filled poker room 70 miles away?
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Bloom Getting Nipped in the Bud
If you’ve read any of my earlier work, you may have surmised that I am rather displeased with several recent actions of the NCAA as it concerns college football. This is completely true. My latest regularly scheduled rant is on the ruling of the NCAA that Jeremy Bloom, a Colorado wide receiver and world-champion skier, cannot collect endorsement money, thus forcing him to choose between football and skiing. Here we go…
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How to not love Todd Hamilton
There is a reason that I, and many golf fans, don’t like seeing Todd Hamilton and his ilk win the major tournaments. There is a reason why the sport doesn’t (shouldn’t?) like it. It’s dreadfully, interminably boring.
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Who Loves Ya- Baby?
Exactly how can you not love Todd Hamilton? The man’s been through the golfing versions of hell, purgatory and the Japanese Tour. He’s fought, lost, dusted off, and started clawing again. And just when you think it’s over, just when Els starts hitting the clutch shots, when the man who went second at Augustaand fourth in the U.S. Open looms over him, the man delivers. The “Any Given Sunday” Rule got put to the test today–and it passed with flying colors.
Mister Payne gives his thoughts on the early summer NBA moves. Topics discussed include:
The Lakers
Tracy McGrady
Carlos Boozer
The Nuggets
Payne’s Power Rankings