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November 17, 2010 – The Hoop Doctors The Hoop Doctors have put together a highlight mix with our favorite alley-oop plays from the past week in NBA action. Re-live the excitement in our countdown and see if you agree with our assessments. Who gets the #1 spot in our Top 10? Was it Kidd’s pin [...]

November 17, 2010 – Allen Moll Coming off of a surprising Elite Eight appearance last season, and with the program’s most highly touted recruit ever, namely Perry Jones, on campus and ready to wreak havoc on opposing Big 12 big men, the Baylor Bears seem poised to once again be a force to be reckoned [...]

November 17, 2010 – Dr. J-Water We’ve got to give a big shout out to Jimmy Traina at Sports Ilustrated’s Extra Mustard Hot Clicks for posting this great video of the Big Diesel making a visit to the “Cheers” bar in Boston. Shaq even made a point of attempting to sing the theme song to [...]

November 16, 2010 – Kevin Burke And you guys thought that LeBron James deserves to be vilified because he exercised his right as a free agent to the leave the Cavaliers and join the Heat. Apparently, Time Magazine disagrees with you. LeBron was just nominated by the magazine for the Person of the Year award. President Barack Obama, [...]

November 16, 2010 – Joshua Sexton Next month, the original rules of basketball written by Dr. James Naismith are set to be auctioned for an estimated two million dollars. The two typewritten documents being auctioned contain the original 13 rules of basketball, written by Naismith in 1891. The documents are being auctioned by Naismith’s grandson [...]

November 16, 2010 – Nicholas Cicchetti The bus is your standard Greyhound charter style. Plush seats wrapped in patterns you see on airport carpets stacked side by side 13 rows deep. This touring behemoth isn’t carrying field trippers or a Triple-A ball club, this vehicle’s contents are the sacred group of all time great Boston [...]

November 16, 2010 – Allen Moll One day newly appointed Morehead State women’s head coach Tom Hodges was discussing with his assistants how to drum up some national attention for his team. Rather than doing it the traditional way off adopting some lock-down defensive scheme or running a new hybrid uptempo type offense, the entire [...]

November 16, 2010 – Allen Moll Something stinks about this story…literally. Back in January, an article in Sports Illustrated uncovered that Gilbert Arenas took a crap in one of power forward Andre Blatche’s shoes.  Seriously. While everyone thought it was just Gilbert being Gilbert once again, everything happens for a reason, and this was no [...]

November 15, 2010 – Kevin Burke Man, I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Just when you thought these guys turned the corner you realize that wasn’t the case. Not even close. Coming into last week, the Knicks had a few impressive wins and their losses were still competitive. That provided hope [...]

November 15, 2010 – Allen Moll That was the headline that appeared as front page news in The Phoenix News Times recently claiming to have reliable sources telling them that on November 15th, the 2 time NBA MVP will quit playing basketball and embark on a political career in his native Canada. While the article [...]