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			<title><![CDATA[The tales of Abe Pollin's life]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[By Henry Abbott On his podcast, Bill Simmons once interviewed NBA Commissioner David Stern, and...told by Dan Steinberg of the D.C. Sports Bog: "I would say I met Abe first...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 24, 2009 13:58:27 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Monday Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...be an unstoppable play, but not a legal one." William Wesley as a hero of Auburn Hills. Bill Simmons kind of stuck it to statistician Wayne Winston in a column about football that wanders into...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 23, 2009 09:36:21 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thursday Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[By Henry Abbott

	Remember when Greg Oden and Kevin Durant first joined the league? There was a metric ton of hype. Then Oden was out for the year, ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 12, 2009 09:04:42 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mark Warkentien's play-in tournament]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...with NBA teams vs. internationals at All-Star Weekend). It's also very similar to one that Bill Simmons has written about. This proposal calls for all the games to be played in four or...]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 29, 2009 08:09:24 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[First Cup: Friday]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael Wallace of The Miami Herald: &quot;Players and coaches said Alonzo Mourning already is having an impact in his new role as Miami&#39;s vice pr...]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 02, 2009 05:55:35 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Your Second-Favorite Team]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[NBA fandom usually begins with the love of a team. My love of the NBA, for instance, springs directly from a childhood spent listening to Blazer games...]]></description>
			<pubDate>August 21, 2009 08:28:00 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Late Thursday Mini-Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Marc Stein and Bill Simmons are among those mentioning the Spurs as title favorites this year. Tim Varner of 48 Minutes...]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 30, 2009 13:47:03 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thursday Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...A status report of Mark Cuban&#39;s battle with the SEC. He&#39;s also on Bill Simmons podcast, and makes clear once again that he dips into his pocket to pay the Maverick...]]></description>
			<pubDate>May 28, 2009 11:37:48 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kobe Bryant: Still Distant, After All These Years]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...personal excellence that he has not to date translated to his teammates -- except during Team USA. As Bill Simmons recently wrote, that appears to be coming back to bite him as he&#39;s raised...]]></description>
			<pubDate>May 27, 2009 15:39:00 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wednesday Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...major road is closed. When people study traffic they call this Braess&#39;s Paradox. In basketball, Bill Simmons named it the Ewing Theory. It should be the same science at work.&quot; Great George...]]></description>
			<pubDate>May 27, 2009 12:58:03 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell: The Moral Hazard of the NBA Draft]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...interesting e-mail exchange between Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons (complete with Gladwell&#39;s tale of...nbsp; The consistent failure of underdogs in professional sports to even try something new suggests, to me...]]></description>
			<pubDate>May 14, 2009 08:04:48 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tuesday Bullets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...the TrueHoop Group of the ESPN Tournament Challenge. The same bracket had him tied for 158th in Bill Simmons&#39; group. Which officially makes the TrueHoop group more user-friendly, I guess. This is a...]]></description>
			<pubDate>April 07, 2009 10:39:12 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Question About Sports Betting]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I know just about nothing about sports betting, but doesn&#39;t this seem to...the only people who have not yet read Bill Simmons&#39; recent mailbag where he talked about...]]></description>
			<pubDate>April 03, 2009 13:32:23 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Duck and Cover]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After watching a whole bunch of basketball in Boston, hearing from all kinds of basketball people in person, watching the Blazer game of the year, and...]]></description>
			<pubDate>March 10, 2009 08:11:58 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Trickle Down Enthusiasm?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...day at the fabulous and intricate MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Too much to blog about, including...now, in this short time, let me second Bill Simmons, who was convincing in one of today...]]></description>
			<pubDate>March 07, 2009 17:20:56 PST EST</pubDate>
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