Basketball

28 July 2009

Being a baller, I tend to play basketball a lot. The other day I was balling, and some other ballers challenged me and my baller bros to a game of full-court. FULL COURT. I suck at full court.

I can't dribble, so full-court makes me look like an even shitter dribbler. One of my favorite dribbling techniques is to get a rebound, then take a few steps and crouch down, protecting the ball. I'll try to pass it to a teammate, then it'll get stolen. That's how I work.

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29 July 2008

According to several blogs, including Baseball Digest Daily, Mark Teixeira is headed to the Angels, in exchange for middling 1B Casey Kotchman and minor-league pitcher Stephen Marek, with perhaps others thrown into the mix.

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11 February 2008

The Illinois men's basketball team is, to be kind, ungood.  As of this writing, they are 2-9 in the Big 10 (note: the Big 10 has not been 'The Big 10' for some time.  There are 11 teams playing basketball in that conference.  Is the Big 10 a lie?  Yes.  Yes it is.  You might as well call it the 'Purple 4' or the '37 Mountain Goats Playing Teatherball And Watching Reruns Of Growing Pains Who's Theme Song Was Sung By Alan Thicke; Is There Anything He Can't Do?'.  You can't just lie to people.)

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6 February 2008

Apparently the Miami Heat and the Phoenix Suns have agreed on a trade that would send Shaquille O'Neal to Phoenix in exchange for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks. I believe this is simply a knee-jerk reaction to the Los Angeles Lakers' acquisition of Pau Gasol (a brilliant move by L.A., by the way) and do not see how this trade can make sense from the Suns' vantage point.

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