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Jordan Crawford pwned Lebron James

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This is the video that had to be confiscated? This? I mean we saw you get served up by a Van Gundy, all smiles Dwight Howard and the Michael Jordan of Turkey on national TV. Well, just because of Team Nike and Lebron freaking out: The emperor has no clothes! This is the best dunk I have ever seen. ever! (Well, at least until LeBron mans up and stops these punk moves like being a salty sportsman when on the losing end of a series or confiscating videos of a pick up game dunk). No bitchassness Lebron! Get it together!

[Video courtesy ebaumnation.com]

Friends Of Jaclyn

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An inspiring story from one of my favorite shows “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel”

Boasting five consecutive national championships, the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team might be the most dominant program in NCAA history. For those close to the team, it’s common knowledge that their magic run began only after a secret weapon was brought in: Jaclyn Murphy. Diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at age nine, the Hopewell Junction, NY native was in desperate need of a lift when the team reached out to her. Four years later, Murphy is a healthy, cancer-free 14-year-old, while Northwestern hasn’t lost a national championship since their initial meeting. Continue reading

“Air” McNair: 1973 – 2009

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Steve McNair was the latest, and quite possible the last for a while, in a long line of black pro-football stars who played college ball at predominately black schools. He put up gaudy numbers at Alcorn State where he was nicknamed Air McNair and like so many black QBs before went to Alcorn State because major colleges wanted him to play defensive back.

He was a quarterback. The one quality any football fan remembers about McNair was that he played hurt, all the time. Bruised sternum, fracture in his hands, and sprains: if McNair could stand up, he would suit up. His 2003 Co-MVP season was a prime example as was his 13-3 playoff season in 2006.

Today, McNair was found, shot to death ,in a condo in downtown Nashville along with a currently unidentified woman in what police believe is a double homicide.

Steve leaves behind his wife Mechelle, four sons, the eldest, Steve Jr, who is a wide receiver and is scheduled to graduate from high school in spring of 2010 and attend college to play this fall. It will most likely be bittersweet without his father.

Update: As initially feared, the woman found with McNair was his 20 year old girlfriend Sahel Kamezi. Sure to get more ridiculous “Why do athletes cheat?” stories

Fehr Judgement

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Joe Sheehan at BaseballProspectus.com wrote an article I am glad to see. He defends MLB Players Association head Donald Fehr as he retires.

… Fehr became a reviled figure, first for not caving in to MLB’s demands in 1994 and leading the players into a strike that lasted through the World Series, then for defending the principle of privacy, the right to refuse unwarranted searches, and the sanctity of collective bargaining, all as the public, management, and a grandstanding Congressional committee looked to trample all three.

Specifically he compares it to the legacy of recently deceased NFLPA head Gene Upshaw and comes to the conclusion that Fehr was the better union head. I completely agree. Their job was to protect the needs and interests of the players. Fehr was unpopular because he did just that. Continue reading

Roland Garros

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Last Federer match I watched was when he crumbled into a tired, sobbing, inconsolable mess after Rafael Nadal unseated him as the perennial #1 of Tennis by beating him at the Australian Open. I thought I would be watching the two here this morning as Nadal was undefeated in the last 31 matches at the French Open. Federer had finally beaten Nadal, in the Madrid Open for the 1st time in two years, I figured he was tweaking his game for the French. He has scrapped to the championship match by coming from behind 6 times during this tournament.
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