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The Morning According to Us
Chris SprowTwo seasons ago a friend emailed during the day wondering if I wanted to attend a late-season Blackhawks game. The team was easily last in the divisio...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 12, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...least in football. For one, you have a limited sample size to evaluate -- high school, er, AAU basketball players have played a hundred-plus more meaningful games than a high school football player has -- and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 28, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...it quits. And even when he did, his magnetism and aura never really receded. He is a basketball diety. Hours after his press conference, North Carolina went out and ran over Michigan State wearing the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 07, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...mdash;whisper with both jealousy and amusement. But Kentucky needs players. They need relevancy. In this state, basketball is the religion, Rupp Arena is the biggest church, and they literally need a new greased-back...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 31, 2009They Are Who We Thought They Were: Value of Pre-season Polls
Chris SprowIn 2002, Gonzaga recorded their best regular season in school history: the team was 29-3, ranked No. 4 in the AP poll. Yet, when the tourney seeds cam...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 18, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...idea. For one, even if you add the NIT, fewer teams compete in any kind of postseason basketball than even football, where we complain that a true playoff doesn't exist. And adding to that...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 10, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris SprowNo matter what your level of cynicism is toward college basketball—if you insist on pointing to the corruption, coaching salaries, or belabor the fact that Kevin...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 26, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris SprowIf this country falls to the most brilliantly diabolical attack the Nepalese government has ever concieved—when they create a mechanism that spe...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 25, 2009The Morning According To Us
Chris Sprow...The IPL, for instance, started out with a ten-year, $1 billion agreement. In America the National Basketball Association is in the first season of eight-year contracts worth $7.5 billion. With a sought...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 17, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...Elsewhere… The British seem to think Obama will color every policy decision with a reference to basketball. A Burmese fishing boat sinks, and two men aboard survive for 25 days at sea in a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 20, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...up for my visit this past weekend, and I was really amazed how the fans really appreciate basketball." Of course, those same fans tend to ignore the other part of the Meeks equation, the stunningly...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 14, 2009W2W4: The Rise of Willie Warren
Chris Sprow...dual-threat players who can hurt opposing defenses inside and outside the arc," says John Gasaway of Basketball Prospectus. "They are also both quite capable of making the right pass at the right time." Warren...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 12, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...room incident in high school, and landed at Kent State. (Hey, Antonio Gates went there! … for basketball.) Manning started from day one in the NFL, had 26 touchdown tosses as a rookie, and has...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 06, 2009Love the Hate ... While it Lasts
Chris SprowTyler Hansbrough thinks he has it bad? Please. When it comes to inspiring insults from opposing fans, Hansbrough is a mere grasshopper to the master t...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 17, 2008One and Done Wins
Chris Sprow...here. Don't be surprised if Jennings (and yes, Sonny Vaccaro) are soon touting the kind of basketball and cultural education a kid can get in Europe over the comfy one-year classes-optional stay...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 01, 2008EDITOR'S PICKS
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