Re: mds, Harrison, and a thrilling sports blog/picks challenge - Ver. 2.0
Australian Open PicksMen's Fourth Round (3-1 yesterday; 3-1 overall)*Gael Monfils (23) def. Andrey Kuznetsov- What could make the second week of a grand slam event even better? Healthy,...
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January 24th* NBA recap:- Rockets (24-22) 115, Mavericks (25-21) 104. Big games by Trevor Ariza (11-15 FG, 6-9 treys, 29 pts, 3 stls) and James Harden (7-18 FG, 3-10 treys, 6-6 FT, 23 pts, 15 rebs,...
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Australian Open Picks *Roger Federer (3) def. Tomas Berdych (6) *Novak Djokovic (1) def. Kei Nishikori (7) *Agnieszka Radwanska (4) def. Carla Suarez-Navarro (10) *Serena Williams (1) def. Maria...
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Oklahoma remained #1 in the polls despite their tough-luck loss at Iowa State! We did it, everyone!- #4 Kansas/#14 Iowa State- #15 Miami (FL)/#24 Duke- - - Other notes: Maine/SBrook,...
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January 26th* NBA recap:- - * NHL recap:- - * Australian Open: Per tournament rules, a day filled with upsets did not include the only one that I truly wanted to see transpire.- Men's Bottom Half:...
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On Monday, Duke and Savannah State lost on the same day for the first time since 2008. Is there nothing we can believe in anymore?- #1 Oklahoma (17-2) 91, Texas Tech (12-7) 67. Buddy Hield: 9-12 FG,...
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Australian Open Picks *Andy Murray (2) def. David Ferrer (8) *Milos Raonic (13) def. Gael Monfils (23) *Victoria Azarenka (14) def. Angeluque Kerber (7) *Johanna Konta def. Zhang Shuai
View ArticleRe: mds, Harrison, and a thrilling sports blog/picks challenge - Ver. 2.0
January 27th* NBA recap:- - StolenSonics () 128, Knicks () 122 (OT). - Clippers (29-16) 91, Pacers (23-22) 89. Despite announcing prior to the game that Blake Griffin would likely miss another...
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Partial overload Wednesday. Feel the excitement.- Arkansas (10-10) 74, #5 Texas A&M (17-3) 71. Oh, look, another crappy team beat a highly-ranked squad. The Hogs led nearly all the way behind...
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Australian Open Picks *Novak Djokovic (1) def. Roger Federer (3)- incredibly compelling and recent GS match ups notwithstanding, Fed can win this. He knocked off Novak three times last year and has...
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January 28th* NBA recap:- - Cavaliers (32-12) 115, Suns (14-33) 93. Cleveland forced visiting Phoenix into 22 turnovers and shot 55.6% from the floor behind LeBron James (7-8 FG, 7-7 FT, 21 pts, 9...
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Small conference and west coast overload!- #8 Maryland (18-3) 74, #3 Iowa (16-4) 68. OMG, upset!!!1! Robert Carter (7-11 FG, 17 pts, 7 rebs, 4 asts, 4 TO) and Rasheed Sulaimon (6-11 FG, 3-5 treys,...
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January 29th* NBA recap:- - Pacers (24-22) 111, Hawks (27-21) 92. While visiting Atlanta held Paul George in check (2-11 FG, 7-7 FT, 11 pts), they suffered a second-straight lopsided road loss after...
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I've got Murray over Raonic tonight. Fitting that he meets up with Novak since that's basically an annual event at this point.
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While the NHL is trying to bar the one interesting aspect of its ASG from occurring (John Scott captaining a team despite being waived 679357 times this season) and the NFL has gone so far down the...
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January 30th* NCAA Basketball recap:- VCU (16-5) 79, Davidson (12-7) 69. Another monster scoring performance by Jack Gibbs (11-20 FG, 6-12 treys, 6-7 FT, 34 pts, 3 asts, 9 TO) turned out to be...
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I'm not sure where the idea to have a non-conference challenge so late in the season came from, but given that it provides us with stuff like Hield vs. Simmons, A&M/Iowa State, and...
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That was my favorite women's final in a long time - Kerber played an absolutely terrific match, executing her game plan to perfection, making virtually no mistakes, and playing as impressive of a...
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Australian Open PicksMen's Final (2-0 in the semis; 12-2 overall)*Novak Djokovic (1) def. Andy Murray (2)- Earlier in the tournament, petulant dick Bernard Tomic responded to comments from Roger...
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January 31st* NBA recap:- - Warriors (43-4) 108, 76'ers (7-41) 105. Wow, we almost didn't need a bastardized version of the transitive property to claim that Philly is "better" than Golden State...
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