Archive for April, 2008

Todd McShay Releases Mock 2012 Election Results

Posted April 30, 2008, 1:45 pm by Patrick Imig (44 Comments)

You had to know it was coming. Not even a full 48 hours had passed from the ’08 draft and the head of Scout’s Inc released his 2009 mock draft. Fascinating. For those keeping score at home, McShay accurately predicted 9 out of the first 135 picks (three full rounds) this year, for a staggering [...]

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Ozzie Guillen Wishes He Had a Daughter for Jeter

Posted April 24, 2008, 12:15 pm by Jason McIntyre (71 Comments)

Yup, really. “Derek Jeter has everything in his life,” Guillen gushed Wednesday. “He’s got money, he’s got rings … He’s not married,” he continued. “He lives in New York. At the All-Star Game, I looked around to see if he’s got anything I don’t like. Whoa. The perfect man. Too bad I don’t have a [...]

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Greg Oden Loves McLovin (and Wine, Apparently)

Posted April 21, 2008, 2:14 pm by Jason McIntyre (44 Comments)

A reader (ed. – He said he doesn’t mind if we use his name, so Andy from Temple University) sent in a couple photos of a rather tall gentleman who appears to be Greg Oden rockin’ a sweet Superbad t-shirt this weekend at a house party on the campus of Penn State University. Another one [...]

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He Used to Loathe TV People, Now He’s One of Them: An Interview with TNT’s David Aldridge

Posted April 21, 2008, 12:45 pm by Jason McIntyre (No Comments)

Last week, David Aldridge became the latest big-name sports journalist to leave the newspaper business (although, as you’ll soon find out, he probably isn’t done) when he left the Philly Inquirer. We decided now would be as good a time as any to talk to Aldridge about the state of newspapers and the NBA. While [...]

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Melo’s Arrest, Day Three: Storytime

Posted April 16, 2008, 1:15 pm by Jason McIntyre (1 Comment)

We don’t like making posts about us, but since there’s hardly anything to update you on in the disappointing world of Carmelo Anthony, why not attempt to regale you with an lunchtime tale of our nightclub encounter with the NBA’s fourth-leading scorer a couple years ago? Grab your sandwich and gather ’round! Setting: 40/40 Club [...]

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Carmelo Anthony’s Arrest: When Will ESPN Chime in?

Posted April 15, 2008, 4:15 pm by Jason McIntyre (113 Comments)

It’s been a little over 24 hours since Carmelo Anthony’s DUI in Denver, and here’s what we’ve got: the Mugshot, an apology, scuttlebutt about where he might have been partying hours before the arrest, the impropriety of preferential treatment from police exists, and … little or no reaction from the mainstream media. We’re sort of [...]

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Golf, the Blue Wall of Silence, and Enablers: An Interview with Author and Columnist Ian O’Connor

Posted April 14, 2008, 12:01 pm by Jason McIntyre (51 Comments)

Ian O’Connor, the author of a new golf book about the rivalry between Arnie and Jack, took some time out of his busy weekend covering the mostly-boring Masters to answer a few of our questions. Currently a columnist at the Bergen Record in New Jersey (full disclosure: Yes, it is the newspaper we used to [...]

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