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January 28, 2011 – Allen Moll Many of you probably don’t remember the 6‘11 and 265 lb Brazilian double-double machine, known as “Baby”, taken as the #8 selection by the Toronto Raptors in the 2004 NBA Draft, but his name is Rafael Araujo. It’s ok, I didn’t either, especially since he played in only 139 NBA [...]

January 28, 2011 – Allen Moll For those of you who don’t already know, Earl Boykins has the distinction of being the 2nd shortest player in NBA history, right behind former Hornets standout Mugsey Bogues(5’3). The diminutive guard measures out at a miniscule 5’5 and weighs only 135 lbs but he doesn’t let his size [...]

January 27, 2011 – Joshua Sexton During Tuesday night’s win against the Utah Jazz, Lamar Odom sank one of the more impressive shots of the season. It is a shot one would normally see during a game of H-O-R-S-E. As Odom was driving baseline, he was bumped by Utah’s Francisco Elson. After Odom heard the [...]

January 27, 2011 – Kevin Burke Now that’s more like it. Suddenly, the dunk contest just got more interesting. Brandon Jennings was just replaced by Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan. We knew he would be replaced. We just didn’t know by who and when. Jennings has missed the last 14 games for the Bucks as he is [...]

January 27, 2011 – Allen Moll When all is said and done and Boston Celtics great Paul Pierce finally does hang it up sometime in the future, there’s no doubting that his #34 jersey will join the many other Celtic greats like Bill Russell, John Havlicek, and Larry Bird up in the rafters at TD [...]

January 27, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The Michigan Wolverines (11-8, 1-5 Big 10) will visit their in-state rival #18 Michigan State Spartans (12-7, 4-3 Big 10) tonight at 7:00pm ET. The Wolverines have lost 6 straight games heading into this contest at The Jack Breslin Student Events Center. The team held a players only [...]

January 26, 2011 – Chip Patterson Follow on Twitter – @cnpatterson3 NBA Power Rankings 1 San Antonio Spurs The Spurs are just simply outscoring and outplaying everyone in the league right now. The Spurs almost lost a big piece of their success when Tim Duncan went down against New Orleans in the first half, clutching [...]

January 26, 2011 – Joshua Sexton On his weekly radio show Monday night, North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams said there is a good chance the Tar Heels will be playing Michigan State next season on an air craft carrier. Although no contracts have been finalized, the game is supposed to take place on Veterans [...]

January 26, 2011 – Kevin Burke Who are these “sources?” Where do they live? And how did they get their job? I don’t think we’ll ever get the answer to those three questions so we’ll have to just live with the fact that “sources” seem to run the NBA circuit to a degree. By now [...]

January 26, 2011 – Allen Moll Sometimes team mascots just want some love too. Surely many mascots get tired of being the happy-go-lucky fun-loving cartoon character whose main job is to fire up the crowd during home games by doing something cheesy like the age old “wave” or the more conventional, yet boring raise the [...]