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| The Jester's Quart: Bowling for St. Loo |
I recently had my fingers on Earl Anthony's balls.
Well, not on them. More like inside them. We'll get to that later.
St. Louis is a great sports town, and not just because its fans are able...
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| Dodgers/Giants: One of the Best Rivalries Around |
Dodgers/Giants—One of the Best Rivalries Around, by Avery Smith
The 2005 baseball season is about to start, and there are so many unknowns. Do the Padres have enough offense to win...
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| Dan Griffin- The 2005 Season Posts Alot Of Questions |
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As the month of madness dies down and days after the Mike Gansys, Taylor Coppenraths, and Maurice Agers of the world have torched my bracket, my love of sports begins to drift elsewhere. Don’t get me wrong, I will be watching the final four intently and cheering on the fighting Illini, but as the...
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| The Pearl or the Sand |
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The University of Tennessee Volunteers did announce the hiring of Bruce Pearl from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as their new Head basketball coach. From indications we in Rocky Top are seeing, reading, and hearing this is indeed the right choice. WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, that is yet to be seen!...
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| A Little confused |
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As St. Louis prepares to host the epic March Madness finale known as the Final Four, the city’s sports scene is understandably dominated with college basketball talk. Which works out well for the city’s other big sports story, Leonard Little’s court case for another DWI, which has been able to fly...
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| I Hate Mondays: Feminization Trepidation |
When you think of a stereotypical male, what are the first notions that come to mind? Confident, strong, a leader or problem solver, tough, successful, athletic and possibly angry.
Now do the same for a female. The adjectives nurturing, sensitive, emotional, elegant, enjoy discussing...
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| The Mystery of March Madness |
I'm Canadian.
You know what that means? It means that when something intrinsically internal to the US is all over US headlines like batshit on glue, I feel like I'm missing out on something big and important (and consequently making nonsensical metaphors about it). This is something...
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| The Jester’s Quart: Sports Media’s Steroid Hypocrisy |
Columnist Greg Wyshynski looks back at what MLB steroid policy critics Mike Lupica, Peter Gammons and George Will were saying back when cynicism and home-run records didn’t go hand-in-hand. Plus, a look at the generation split in baseball’s steroid debate between fans.
Greg...
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| Hey George Shake THIS !!! |
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The day I see my Sox shake hands with a bunch of Yankers is the day I hang up my well worn hat. Tensions were running too high at Merriam school in Acton Mass. There was so much taunting at the expense of Yankers fans since Bostons World Series win that Schools Officials decided action needed to be...
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| Buried Bonds |
Barry Bonds’ baseball career could be over, but his career as a defendant might just be getting started
If baseball is the national pastime, despising Barry Bonds is a close second. He is to colossal jerk what Jessica...
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| Andrew Bogut's Superb Play Will March the Utes All the Way to St. Louis |
Don’t sleep on Utah. I’ve been preaching it this whole tournament and only now are people finally starting to believe me. Some people may claim that I’m just another person hopping on the Utes’ bandwagon, but I was sold on Utah long before...
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| This Is March Madness |
An insane first weekend lives up to the fairy tale hype
It has to be March.
It has to be March when teams like Bucknell , UW Milwaukee, and Vermont suddenly have relevance in the college basketball universe. Is there a better time of the year in sports than this?...
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| Mountaineer Mania |
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"Take me home, country road, to the place that I belong...West Virginia, Mountain Mama, take me home, country road!". John Denver has to be smiling upon the Mountaineers these days after their unbelievable win over Wake Forest. Only two weeks ago, West Virginia was in jeopardy of not even making...
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| Jason White, QB from OU, is he NFL material, can he make it? |
The best college football athletes regularly move on to the NFL and Oklahoma University quarterback Jason White is one of those players, but does he have what is needed to become NFL material?
Professional quarterbacks have one of the toughest jobs in the NFL. They are required to be...
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| Celtics get Walker, Celtics get W's |
Antoine Walker is back in green after returning to the Boston Celtics on the trading deadline of February 24. Since that day, the Celtics have compiled a record of 11-1 and have pushed open their lead in the Atlantic Division to 5 ½ games.
Walker initially played with No. 88 when he...
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| I Hate Mondays: Running Back Saturation |
In the NFL, how many teams are really in the market for a workhorse running back?
Go ahead, take a guess:
10? 5? 3?
How about zero?
Edgerrin James and Shaun Alexander, who are all allegedly on the trade block, are not garnering much...
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| The Jester's Quart: Sneaking a Peak at March Madness |
Romantic relationships and sports fanaticism are not alien to one another. Both involve love (you know, that nonsensical emotion that separates us from the robots), although the intensity of that love can vary from relationship to relationship. (I love the Devils more...
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| Sports Gospel- Madness report day 3 |
Monday- March Madness column
Tuesday- All-Americans, Upset specials
Today- my list of tournament breakout players and my list of must see games. Also, a special March Madness edition of “Great Americans”.
Thursday- Look at each region and my predictions
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| Keep Your Head Up |
So how soon are they going to stop wearing pads in the NFL? If the league keeps banning different kinds of hits, the plastic protection will soon be obsolete.
Word out of Hawaii is that the NFL is considering making a hit on an "unsuspecting player" qualify as "unnecessary...
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| Making the Jump |
By Sara Normand
Thousands of screaming fans. Songs blasting from the band. Youths everywhere jumping up and down. Flashing lights and excitement. Intensity. Star-struck fans....
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| Sports Gospel: Madness Report 1 |
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Today I give my vote for All-Americans (remember the votes were due before conference tournaments) and give you my picks on first round upset specials. Tomorrow I will look more in depth at players who can change the course of the tournament and have my list of must-see games. Thursday I look at...
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| Dan Griffin's NCAA Tournament Team Breakdowns |
ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI RPI: 2 SOS: 51 (9-1 last 10)
Record: 30-1 (v Fairleigh-Dickenson in first round)
BIG WINS: MSU, WISC, WAKE, GONZAGA, UC
BIG LOSSES: Ohio State
Leading scorer: Luther Head: 16.1ppg
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| I Hate Mondays: Gambling With Steroids |
Using steroids, aside from the rare instance where a doctor’s prescription is rendered, is illegal.
Betting on sports, outside of Las Vegas, Atlantic City or any government lotteries, is also illegal.
Who could ever imagine the cataclysmic ramifications of using...
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| The Jester's Quart: Current Events Quiz |
All right everybody...No. 2 pencils only, and please don't color outside the circles on your ScanTron sheet.
Here's your latest "The Jester's Quart" Current Events Quiz:
1. The best thing about...
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| Boston College: The ONE |
By Sara Normand
March 10, 2005
Al Skinner is a consistent man and coach. You always know what to expect from him, you...
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| The Colts Have the "Edge" |
"The Colts Have The Edge"
It has been reported that Edgerrin James may be requesting a trade out of Indianapolis. His agent Drew Rosenhaus states that he didn't think that James could get a long-term contract from the Colts. Rosenhaus goes on to say that the Colts are making it...
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| Sports Gospel Mailbag part 2 |
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I was in Chicago this past week, so I was inundated with Illini talk. On my flight to Columbus to call a pair of hockey games for a major sports talk station, I was reading an SI article on the Illini while filling out my All-American ballot (which seemed to have an orange tint). Naturally, when I...
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| Championship weak |
Nothing spells anti-climax like conference tournaments. What a great way to over-due good rivalries and render an emotional, thrilling regular season essentially meaningless.
Honestly, what is the point of these things? All season we see game after game be built up as absolutely...
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| Sports Gospel Mailbag part 2 |
Sports Gospel Mailbag part 2
I was in Chicago this past week, so I was inundated with Illini talk. On my flight to Columbus to call a pair of hockey games for a major sports talk station, I was reading an SI article on the Illini while filling out my All-American ballot (which seemed...
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| I Hate Mondays: First is the Worst |
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Somehow, someway, propaganda has spread through elementary school playgrounds brainwashing young children with the maxim “first is the worst.” In all my years since grade five, I have yet to find where this axiom fully applies but with the recent amplification of steroid testing in baseball, I...
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| Social Responsibility |
Competition. It is the essence of sport. It is the fuel that makes the sport engine go. I, for one, love it. It is what makes me better both in sports and in life, and I relish the chance to compete. With that being said, here goes.
Is it just me or do all athletes sound the...
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| Sports That Are Not Sports |
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If there's one thing I've come to really despise lately, it's the willingness to turn every meager activity into competition. No longer can one simply enjoy something for its own sake. No, instead you've got to be the best at it. Or at least be better than everyone else in the immediate vicinity....
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| The Jester’s Quart: The Pennant Race |
There was an article in The Washington Post recently that examined the commercialization of Black History Month, asking a legitimate question: Is a month-long celebration of pride, family and legacy diminished if certain retailers simply view it as an excuse to...
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| The Weekly Rant |
Strap on your seat belts, and hold on tight, we have a jam-packed, no holds-barred version of the Weekly Rant!!!!!!!
This week I decided to change things up a bit. I decided to write about what I would say if I had a minute with some of the most famous athletes today. Here goes!!
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| ACC Finally Gets Instant Replay |
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When the Atlantic Coast Conference announced a few weeks ago that it would experiment with instant replay for the 2005 football season, one thought raced through my mind: “It’s about time!” The ACC’s system of instant replay will be based on the format the Big Ten used last season. Certainly, this...
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| Is Kobe's Luster Gone Forever? |
My, how things change with the passage of time.
Kobe Bryant earned plenty of accolades in his first few NBA seasons. It became evident pretty quickly that the Los Angeles Lakers had a good player on their hands, and by the time the team won its first title of the Phil Jackson era,...
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