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Recent Posts by gradys_kitchen
August 20, 2007
The "Why" behind Team USA's recent international woes. : However, the article fails to tackle the biggest question, does anyone in the States really care anymore?
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 03:46 PM - 7 comments
July 26, 2007
Dogfighting, point-shaving, blood doping. It couldn't get any worse, could it?: Slate envisions how a bad sports week could get worse.
posted by gradys_kitchen to general at 12:54 PM - 51 comments
July 18, 2007
'Roid rage on the 9th tee: - Gary Player said Wednesday he knows of at least one golfer who has used steroids, and he urged golf organizations to move quickly toward a random drug-testing plan .. then he put his fist through the wall and screamed "why is no one listening to me!!"
posted by gradys_kitchen to golf at 04:22 PM - 17 comments
May 22, 2007
Which NBA lottery team built up the most positive karma during the season,: thereby earning them a shot at Oden or Durant?
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 02:32 PM - 105 comments
May 16, 2007
Rigid rules devastating quality of NBA.: Suspensions, synthetic balls and mixed signals - the declining state of NBA gameplay as opinioned by veteran NBA writer Mike Kahn
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 03:51 PM - 26 comments
April 13, 2007
Sports Agent Convicted of Smuggling.: Smuggling HGH you may ask? No .. smuggling baseball players out of Cuba and harboring them in the United States for profit. Evidence includes $225,000 in payments to purported drug trafficker and Cuban smuggler Ysbel Medina. It's like Baseball's version of Miami Vice starring El Duque.
posted by gradys_kitchen to baseball at 03:41 PM - 11 comments
April 12, 2007
College basketball's top ten active coaches - SI thinks they know: Oddly enough, Nick Nolte's turn as coach Pete Bell in the legendary Western University Dolphins in Blue Chips did not make the cut.
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 11:16 AM - 27 comments
February 01, 2007
Joe Buck and Jim Nantz, Sportscasters or corporate shills?: Slate asks - yawn - are Buck and Nantz the best TV can do?
posted by gradys_kitchen to general at 02:55 PM - 50 comments
January 31, 2007
Michigan St. to retire Cleaves' No. 12: Cleaves wore No. 12 as he helped lead the Spartans to the 2000 National Championship, for which he earned MVP honors
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 10:39 AM - 12 comments
January 29, 2007
Matsuzaka order's the gyroball sandwhich or does he?: - The $51.1 million pitch is broken down on SI.com
posted by gradys_kitchen to baseball at 09:03 AM - 18 comments
November 29, 2006
Year-After Effect could strike many young arms in '07: Tom Verducci of SI proposes that 2007 could be a down year for all of the upstart rookie pitchers from this past season due to overuse. As the title foreshadows, Verducci refers to this phenomenon as the Year-After Effect, based on a general rule of thumb among executives and pitching coaches: young pitchers should not have their innings workload increased by more than 25 or 30 innings per year.
posted by gradys_kitchen to baseball at 09:23 AM - 15 comments
October 26, 2006
The only guns NBA players should have are these (kiss biceps now): With David Stern's announcement comes the chatter.
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 09:01 AM - 33 comments
September 26, 2006
ALCS - Better to play the Yankees in 5 or a 7 game series?: The Minnesota Twins pounded the Kansas City Royals 8-1 to clinch at least the American League wild card on Monday, assuring a fourth playoff appearance in five seasons and, if they so choose, a chance to win the AL Central. That's a choice they should decline. Dan Wetzel proposes it will be easier to face the Yankees in a 5 game division series rather than in the 7 game series. Torii Hunter agrees.
posted by gradys_kitchen to baseball at 09:21 AM - 16 comments
September 14, 2006
NBA's Dirtiest players: NBA analyst Charley Rosen breaks down the dirtiest players of all time.
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 11:33 AM - 20 comments
September 06, 2006
7 shutout night for 1st time in 30 years: In an era of offense, batters came up blank for a night. Tuesday marked the first time in 34 years that there were seven shutouts in the major leagues on a single day.
posted by gradys_kitchen to baseball at 09:49 AM - 12 comments
August 24, 2006
From pastime to present - Resurrect these parts of baseball's history: Fulfilling the baseball nostalgia need in all of us. And yes I do miss Gary Carter's perm.
posted by gradys_kitchen to baseball at 11:27 AM - 11 comments
August 17, 2006
Community Service Artest Style: Artest defends his role in the Rumble at the Palace.
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 12:47 PM - 58 comments
August 15, 2006
The Art of the Interview, ESPN-Style: Every single editorial employee at ESPN is expected to attend a three-day seminar to move away from Mike Wallace and Larry King style theatrics and more towards true 'journalism'. Who would have thought this ammount of brainwork went into the Budweiser Hot Seat.
posted by gradys_kitchen to culture at 04:47 PM - 9 comments
Without Olympic rings, the world championships are just a bunch of guys playing basketball.: Requires viewing an ad for a Salon.com day pass.
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 12:52 PM - 2 comments
August 03, 2006
Most influential players in NBA History: NBA analyst Charley Rosen provides a fairly comprehensive if not obvious list of players who had the most impact on the game itself. Who's missing?
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 09:02 AM - 45 comments
June 08, 2006
Dumars hopes to keep Pistons' nucleus together: If Detroit is able to re-sign Ben Wallace, an unrestricted free agent, the Pistons president of basketball operations said he expects to keep the team's nucleus intact to make another run after falling short of the NBA finals for the first time since 2003
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 09:00 AM - 23 comments
May 25, 2006
Bosh not big on Bargnani: How much say should current players have in swaying the front office towards or in this case away from portential picks.
posted by gradys_kitchen to basketball at 03:25 PM - 13 comments
January 04, 2006
Super Bowl Wants Only Young Dancers: Had to post because I thought it was odd that there is an age limit of 45 and under for halftime "dancers" when the act jumping around on stage is representative of the over 60 set. I was also kind of hoping the article had something to do with the proliferation of Go Go Dancer requests in the Detroit area.
posted by gradys_kitchen to football at 10:42 AM - 51 comments