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9 Reasons LeBron James Should Go Back to Cleveland
The 2013-14 NBA season underway, and there are lots of interesting storylines to follow. Will the Miami Heat three-peat? Will the return of Derrick Rose make the Bulls serious contenders? Will Stephen Curry and the Warriors take the next step? Can Kevin Durant keep the Thunder going all by himself while Russell Westbrook recuperates? Will […]
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This Day In Sports History (June 25th) — San Antonio Spurs
It was on this day in 1999 that the San Antonio Spurs beat the New York Knicks in Game 5 to win the NBA championship. The Spurs won the game 78-77 to capture the franchise’s first championship, and their first of four titles over an incredible nine-year span. The Spurs finished the regular season tied […]
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LeBron James Won His Second Ring, Bill Russell Was Not Impressed (GIF)
Obviously Game 7 of the NBA Finals between the Spurs and Heat wasn’t as exciting as Game 6, which was an all-time classic. However, it was still a pretty good contest. The score was close until the very end, and if just a few things had gone differently—if Tim Duncan had made that hook shot, […]
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Dick Vitale to Eva Longoria: “Your ex is AWESOME BABY”
The always entertaining and possibly mentally ill Dick Vitale has been going nuts on Twitter, raving about the San Antonio Spurs since they took Game 1 of the NBA Finals last night. “POPOVICH is flat out THE BEST COACH in all of PRO SPORTS!” was one tweet. “TIM DUNCAN is greatest POWER forward EVER TO […]
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Lakers Fan Really Into Heckling San Antonio’s Matt Bonner (Video)
What is an NBA fan to do when his team of high-priced underachieving superstar players is on the verge of getting swept right out of the first round of the playoffs? Well, for one Lakers fan on Sunday, the answer to that question was “heckle the Spurs’ Matt Bonner without mercy.” Why Matt Bonner? The […]
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High School Sophomore Victor Dukes Throws Down a Ridiculous Dunk (Video)
What’s worse than getting posterized? How about getting posterized by a high school sophomore while you get kicked in the face for good measure. That’s what happened to a player from Manila High School in Arkansas when his team faced Victor Dukes and intrastate rival Nettleton High School in a 2012 NEA Tournament game. Dukes, […]
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Charles Barkley Surpassed His Question Limit During Interview With Gregg Popovich (Video)
San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich surprised everyone when he sent Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker and Danny Green on a flight back home prior to yesterday’s nationally televised game against the Miami Heat. It was a move that raised several questions. Unfortunately for Charles Barkley, he was unable to ask any of […]
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Warriors’s Harrison Barnes Gave T-Wolves Center Nikolas Pekovic an Embarrassing Facial Saturday Night (Video)
Harrison Barnes was one of the top college basketball recruits in the class of 2010, having been ranked #1 by ESPNU and #2 by Rivals.com. However, by the time his days at North Carolina were through, I guess you could say some people didn’t think he quite lived up to his potential. That’s why he […]
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Manu Ginobili Misses A Wide Open Dunk (Video)
With the San Antonio Spurs situated comfortably atop the Western Conference late in the season, some of their older players were afforded the opportunity to get some extra rest prior to the start of the playoffs. And while that strategy by Gregg Popovich appeared to work wonders for the aging legs of Tim Duncan (17 […]
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15 Highest NBA Salaries For The 2011-12 Season
Now that we’re actually going to have a 2011-12 NBA season, I thought it would be fun to whip up a list of the top player salaries for this year. Why is a list of the NBA’s top salaries so amusing? It has to do with the league’s insanely complicated “soft” salary cap. This system, […]
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9 Reasons Norv Turner Should Be Fired
With the Chargers sitting at 4-5 right now, they are far from the dominant force in the AFC West that everyone expected them to be. And everyone is predictably placing the blame on head coach Norv Turner. He’s seemed to trend downward over his career in SD, and it’s time to pull the cord and […]
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15 Highest Pro Athlete Salaries of 2011
The annual salaries commanded by pro athletes seem to be growing exponentially, don’t they? It just seems like every year, in every sport, somebody is breaking a record for most money paid to a grown man for playing a game. Some of us don’t really have a problem with this, and instead fantasize about what […]
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This Day In Sports History (June 23rd) – San Antonio Spurs
It was on this day in 2005 that the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons played Game 7 of the NBA Finals. The Spurs won the game 81-74 to win the franchise’s third championship. The Spurs easily handled their first three opponents of the playoffs, beating the Denver Nuggets in five games, the Seattle Supersonics […]
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11 Athletes We’d Like to Punch in the Face
This list could be a thousand entries long. Of course, everyone has their own athletes they want to punch. I’m sure someone out there hates Dirk Nowitzki with a passion and wants nothing more to see him hurt, but that’s not what this list is about. Some athletes, seemingly universally, just rub everyone the wrong […]
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9 Biggest Crybabies in Sports
Allow me to clarify this title. It’s not about actually who actually cry (as we covered last week), but rather about men who simply won’t stop whining. People that won’t stop complaining about calls, bitch to the media about clubhouse affairs, etc. They are among the most destructive and obnoxious types of personalities, so we’ve […]
