Give and Go: Choose your own adventure

March 5, 2010

From: Carson Cistulli
Sent: Monday, March 1, 2010 4:42 PM
To: Charlie Zegers
Subject: Give and Go: Choose Your Own Adventure
One thing we can learn from the discipline of poetry is that, rather than limiting creativity, constraints actually tend to stimulate it. Think of the sonnet, for example. The sonnet – a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter [...]

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Rough Week for Allen Iverson

March 5, 2010

I would not wish the week Allen Iverson has had on my worst enemy.
On Tuesday, the Philadelphia 76ers announced Iverson will not return to the team this season. Iverson left the team before the all-star break to deal with a family matter — an unspecified illness affecting his four-year-old daughter.
On Thursday, Iverson’s wife of eight [...]

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Hoya Austin Freeman has Diabetes

March 5, 2010

Austin Freeman – leading scorer for seventeenth-ranked Georgetown – has been diagnosed with diabetes. It is unclear when he’ll be able to play again, but coach John Thompson III has said he’s certain Freeman will be able to return this season.
Freeman has been limited in recent games due to what was thought to be a [...]

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Kovacevic Facing Jail Time in Serbia

March 5, 2010

Miladin Kovacevic — the ex-Binghamton University power forward turned fugitive from justice –  is finally facing a trial for his role in the beating of Bryan Steinhauer.
Back in May 0f 2008, Kovacevic and two friends were involved in a bar fight with another Binghamton student, Bryan Steinhauer. About 100 pounds lighter than the 6′9″, 260-pound [...]

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Big Ten Target: Rutgers

March 4, 2010

The likeliest 12th member of the Big Ten is Rutgers, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Athletically, the Scarlet Knights don’t bring a whole lot to the table in men’s basketball or football. But Rutgers makes up for those shortcomings with the most important of considerations: location. Located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers is well within the [...]

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A Very Important Date

March 3, 2010

The trade deadline is a date every fantasy player knows – sort of like Christmas. It’s circled on the calendar as a sort of “basketball fan secular holiday” – we celebrate by spending hours glued to Twitter, hitting refresh on our favorite web sites and listening to sports talk radio.
The first of March, on the [...]

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Cleveland’s Donut Hole

March 2, 2010

With Shaq on the mend, the Cavs lineup has a great big hole in the middle. The person who fills it could be a great buy for the last few weeks of the season.

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Jason Kidd Draws a Foul on Atlanta Coach

March 1, 2010

Heady players are adept at initiating contact with the opposition as a means of drawing fouls. Usually, though, “the opposition” is restricted to the players in the game.
For Jason Kidd, that’s an unnecessary limitation. During Friday’s game against the Hawks, Kidd noticed Atlanta coach Mike Woodson straying a little too far [...]

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Jordan Buys Bobcats

February 28, 2010

Michael Jordan has reached an agreement to purchase controlling interest in the Charlotte Bobcats from BET founder Robert Johnson. MJ has been a part-owner of the team since 2006. He has had nominal control over the team’s basketball operations since then, but has been something of an absentee landlord for the team, rarely attending practices [...]

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Give and Go: Serg-ing Knicks

February 26, 2010

From: Charlie Zegers
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 7:52 PM
To: Carson Cistulli
Subject: Give and Go: To Be Continued
We were talking about the trade deadline deals last week, only to be rudely interrupted by even yet still more trades. Then, we were interrupted once again by our deadline – several hours shy of the actual deadline, when [...]

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