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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

Bust out your yarmulkes and start slicing the challah. It is time for your Friday wrap up of links that I failed to cover during the week. Jerome Brown of San Clemente, California pleaded not guilty after being accused of forming fake businesses to defraud other companies out of about $450,000. His lawyer claims that […]

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NBA: Central Division Previews

I am participating in a big collaborative effort by some of the top bloggers across the web to provide previews to the 2008 NBA season. As always, I have been designated as a representative for the Miami Heat. The assigned date for my post is October 23rd. Until then (and after Oct 23), make sure […]

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NBA: Southwest Division Previews

I am participating in a big collaborative effort by some of the top bloggers across the web to provide previews to the 2008 NBA season. As always, I have been designated as a representative for the Miami Heat. The assigned date for my post is October 23rd. Until then (and after Oct 23), make sure […]

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NBA: Atlantic Division Previews

I am participating in a big collaborative effort by some of the top bloggers across the web to provide previews to the 2008 NBA season. As always, I have been designated as a representative for the Miami Heat. The assigned date for my post is October 23rd. Until then (and after Oct 23), make sure […]

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Mind over Matter

There was once a time when people would have laughed at the thought of “sports psychology.” Now, a professional athlete’s own psychologist may be the most vital facet of his or her entourage. In fact, the relatively new-found trend to address and strengthen a player’s mental abilities may even be applied before one turns pro. […]

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AK47 Fully Loaded

AK47, also known as Andrei Kirilenko (#47 for the Utah Jazz), is clearly unhappy playing for the Utah Jazz under coach Jerry Sloan. He is so adamant about not playing for Sloan that he will give up the remaining unpaid portion of his $63 million contract with the Jazz if they let agree to let […]

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Trail Blazer Woes

As I’m sure everybody is aware by now, Greg Oden, the top draft pick of this past summer’s NBA draft will be missing out on his rookie season with the Portland Trail Blazers. Apparently, what was originally supposed to be an exploratory arthroscopic procedure ended up being microfracture surgery for Oden; which is of course, […]

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Garnett leaves Minnesota playoff woes behind for Boston

According to the Associated Press, the Minnesota Timberwolves have reportedly agreed in principal to a trade that will send All-Star forward Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics in exchange for several players. The Celtics are set to send Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, and at least one first-round draft pick […]

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What Would Ari Do?

What would Ari do? According to the latest news, 6-11, 19-year old Yi Jianlian still has no plans to play for the Milwaukee Bucks, despite the fact that Former China national team coach Qian Chenghai supports Yi’s playing with Milwaukee, and that most objective observers and league-pundits feel that, from a pure basketball standpoint, the […]

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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up

I missed a lot of news from Sunday-Wednesday (being trapped in a poker room in Biloxi, Mississippi…losing my ass), and it took a while for me to catch up with all of that on top of reading yesterday’s important sports agent news.  Thus, I bring to you a Friday wrap-up, of the biggest sports agent […]