March 2011
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Gopher basketball 2011-12 versus Bizarro Transfer...
Justin Cobbs, in a walking dribble near the top of the three-point line, makes quick move to the left before crossing over his dribble and driving the lane at Williams Arena. As he gets past his defender, another comes up in help defense, leaving Royce White open on the backside, who has just started to bolt toward the hoop. Cobbs notices the defender coming and lobs a pass just out of his...
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Murray Chass is not a blogger
In his mind, Murray Chass writes from a very comfortable leather chair, one that faces west in a sun-lit three-season porch, where he can pound away incessantly on his laptop computer as if it were an IBM Selectric typewriter. From this metaphorical perch, which is decidedly not his mother’s basement, where he decidedly does not have a blog, he is able to freely and inaccurately attack...
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Everyone has a price at Super Bowl XLV
Barely-coherent ramblings about the last Super Bowl until next year’s, which will go off without a hitch… The Green Bay Packers show the Minnesota Vikings yet again how to build a champion… Where are all of those Steelers fans now who hated their quarterback during the preseason?… The owners charged more than $2.5 million per 30 seconds of commercial airtime, but want to...
