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LeBron underwhelms (again) in “biggest game of his career”
I have seen LeBron James play in person just once, during his second season in the league. The Cavs were in town to play my hometown New York Knicks in a matchup of the most exciting young player in...
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Is Moneyball money in the bank?
The “Moneyball” trailer debuted this past week, and Ken Tremendous, AKA Michael Shur, AKA one of the brilliant minds behind the brilliant but departed Fire Joe Morgan said it all. My only question...
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Top 20 NBA Ballers of My Lifetime
Editor’s note: We are currently preparing an article in which a number of MSF writers submitted their top 20 NBA players of all-time. The goal is to see where Dirk falls in the top 20, or if he even...
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Break up the Mets! Seriously.
I love the New York Mets. In fact, I am watching the Mets bash the Detroit Tigers right now…and it is making me sick. The Mets broke my heart in 2007. They stomped it so bad, I haven’t watched...
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The Black Swan Theory
My friend’s father once spent an afternoon explaining to me the Black Swan theory, and how it relates to sports. Surprisingly, it has little to do with Natalie Portman and much more to do with Roger...
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NFL Snapshots From Week 1: “The Phantom Menace”
Ah, football. Never leave us again! This season, riding high off a Giants Super Bowl win, I have pledged to watch as many different teams as possible and focus all my fan masochism on fantasy...
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NFL Snapshots: Week 2 Concludes and the Backlash Begins
If Week 1 is Overreaction Week, week 2 is Backlash Week. The “Peyton Manning is back!” storyline is now “What’s wrong with Peyton!?” The sky-high Jets of last week now look like the inept team we all...
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AL MVP Debate Over, Triple Crown Or Not – Trout Is Tops
Over the last few days, I’ve seen multiple articles about how Miguel Cabrera should receive serious consideration for the AL MVP award, in light of the fact that he has a decent shot at becoming...
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NFL Week 3 Snapshots: So Apparently There WERE Games Other Than...
Hey did you watch Monday Night Football? I heard something happened? I don’t know, I was watching How I Met Your Mother on DVR, and then I had a glass of warm milk, and by that point I was fast...
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NFL Week 4 Snapshots: NFC Contenders, Pretenders, and Offenders
Week 4 is one of the first separation weeks of the season. We’re only at the quarter pole, and yet there are some things we can say with certainty. Among the statements we can make with certainty...
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NFL Week 5 Snapshots: AFC Contenders, Pretenders and Offenders
Last week, I went through the NFC to pick out which teams look like they might have legitimate championship aspirations. This week, we hit the other league. And wow…there are a lot of crappy teams in...
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NFL Snapshots: Ranking the QBs of Super Bowl Contenders
I am riding a crazy post-debate high right now, and it got me thinking about leadership. As in, the President of the football field: the quarterback. It’s weird to think, but there are only six, SIX,...
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NFL Snapshots: Biggest Busts (So Far) of 2012
Wow, what a misleading title. Now that we’re just about at the halfway point, it seemed like a good time to veer from identifying contenders to figuring out who has pissed us all off the most by...
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The 7 Biggest Surprises of the NFL Half-Season
So we’ve reached the midway point of the 2012 season, and the preseason prognostications can finally be assessed. This has certainly been a surprising season so far – whether its the emergence of...
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