From: Charlie Zegers Sent: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 10:04 AM To: Carson Cistulli Subject: Give and Go: Gabba Gabba To paraphrase a man who has become a major influence in my daughter’s life – (DJ Lance from Yo! Gabba Gabba!) – “Yo! It’s almost time to go. But let’s remember what we did this season!” [...]
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From: Carson Cistulli Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:38 AM To: Charlie Zegers Subject: Give and Go: Hidden Skills So I’m pretty excited right now, Zegers, on account of I’ve made a pretty substantial leap recently in a league where I’d been sorta hovering near, but not quite usurping, the first place spot. The leap [...]
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From: Charlie Zegers Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 6:35 AM To: Carson Cistulli Subject: Give and Go: Shallow Water The 2009 NBA draft pool – according to the pundits – was supposed to be about as deep as an average episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County. Factor in Blake Griffin’s injury, Hasheem Thabeet’s [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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From: Carson Cistulli Sent: Monday, February 1, 2010 8:32 PM To: Charlie Zegers Subject: Give and Go: Solving for X It’s become more or less the rule in real-live NBA basketball: when you draft, draft the best player available and work things out from there – by means of trade or whatever – to craft [...]
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From: Charlie Zegers Sent: Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 7:05 PM To: Carson Cistulli Subject: Give and Go: Room for Improvement Back when Kenny Smith was calling Knicks games on the MSG Network, he used to call David Lee “Shallow Water.” The reason? Lee never went beyond five feet. His range was so limited, there was [...]
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