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SubscribeWashington Post column - ' NCAA tournament expansion would make cents, but not sense'
Mon, Feb 8 2010 06:17
| NCAA, NCAA Tournament, college basketball
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Here is this week's column from The Washington Post --------If there is one thing you can absolutely count on from the NCAA, it is an almost unique form of slippery deceit. No one involved in its decision-making ever tells an outright lie. They also never tell an outright truth. Everything is always being studied. Ask the NCAA its position on March coming after February and you will be told the issue
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Drew Brees’s tears most memorable to me; On to next slate of sports events
Mon, Feb 8 2010 11:23
| NFL, college basketball, New Orleans Saints, Winter Olympics, Drew Brees
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There are a lot of bad things about living in America’s new snow belt. Losing power is no fun. Seeing people losing their minds in the grocery store is comedic but just a little bit scary. But not getting the newspapers in the morning makes me crazy. Sure, I can read online but it’s NOT THE SAME. I spend enough time sitting at the computer most days without having to sit here to read the papers.Okay,
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Deviation from sports – stories of my dad, who passed away 4 years ago today
There are a number of things I could write about this morning: How completely sick I am of snow and predictions of snow could easily keep me going for 1,000 words. Tom Watson’s comments about Tiger Woods’ on-course behavior—which are correct and have been discussed among players for years. The only reason they haven’t been talked about in public is that everyone lived in fear of angering King
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Super Bowl week – call me when the game starts; More follow-up
Thu, Feb 4 2010 10:02
| Sports Radio, Navy, George Solomon, Washington Post, Sam Bradford, The Super Bowl, women's basketball
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If there is one thing I am thankful for as I head into my dotage it is that I am no longer under the control of an editor who can say something like, “I need you at The Super Bowl.”That happened to me once, back in 1980, when I was happily covering college basketball for The Washington Post and George Solomon announced to me that, since I had done such a good job covering a number of Philadelphia
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Updated -- This week's radio segments (Sports Reporters, Gas Man, Tony Kornheiser Show):
Wed, Feb 3 2010 08:50
| Sports Radio, Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, PGA Tour, NCAA, college basketball, Winter Olympics
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Today I joined The Sports Reporters' Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin in the normal timeslot (5:25 ET on Wednesday's). Click the permalink, then the link below, to listen to the segment. This week we spent a great deal of time talking about the PGA Tour controversy around Mickelson and McCarron and touched on Tom Watson's recent comments on Tiger Woods and his on-course behavior. Click here to listen to
Addressing a few comments and e-mails – PGA Tour, Navy, Arenas and women’s basketball topics
Wed, Feb 3 2010 10:11
| Navy, Georgetown, PGA Tour, Gilbert Arenas, women's basketball
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I know I’ve said this before but one of the things about the blog that I’ve truly enjoyed is reading the posts and the e-mails. With few exceptions they’re smart and they often raise good questions or make me think about an issue in a way I hadn’t previously thought about it.An example: Someone reminded me yesterday that in writing about the Phil Mickelson-Scott McCarron square grooves controversy
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Gilbert Arenas’s Op-Ed; Quick note on the Mickelson-McCarron controversy
Tue, Feb 2 2010 09:48
| Scott McCarron, Phil Mickelson, PGA Tour, NBA, Tiger Woods, Gilbert Arenas
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Gilbert Arenas just doesn’t get it—which hardly makes him unusual in jock-world. This morning, on the op-ed page of The Washington Post, there’s a column with his name on it (I say that because it was so clearly written by a lawyer) in which he expresses his sorrow about all that he’s done wrong in the last couple of months. He knows now—or so he says—that it was wrong to illegally bring
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Washington Post Column - 'Don't count ACC basketball out yet in 2010'
Mon, Feb 1 2010 11:28
| Dan Bonner, college basketball, Washington Post, ACC
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Here is this week's column, which ran Sunday, for The Washington Post---------Dan Bonner has been involved in ACC basketball since 1971, the year he enrolled at Virginia as a gawky, 6-foot-7 forward. He became a solid player for the Cavaliers and has gone on to work as an analyst at CBS, ESPN, Raycom and Fox -- always with a number of ACC games on his schedule every season.Several years ago, Bonner
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Review of the sports weekend; Snowy drive to Holy Cross
Mon, Feb 1 2010 11:40
| Islanders, Roger Federer, Phil Mickelson, PGA Tour, Holy Cross, NBA, Cornell, ACC, The Patriot League
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So here’s some of the news of the weekend:--Serena Williams and Roger Federer won Australian Open titles in matches that tipped off at 3:30 a.m. on the east coast because the Aussies like to play their finals at night to avoid the searing heat that often hits Melbourne in January.--They played The Pro Bowl. Somebody won. Driving home from the Holy Cross-Lehigh game (more on that later) I could not
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Still in Florida for interviews....
Fri, Jan 29 2010 10:11
| Roger Federer, PGA Tour, Tiger Woods, Tennis, Surgery, Andy Roddick
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STILL SOMEWHERE IN FLORIDA – This is another one of those days on the road, and for a technologically challenged writer who leaves his house two days earlier without a power chord, it’s even tougher. After a long day of draining interviews, and prior to a scheduled early start this morning, he phoned lamenting the fact that he has no idea how he could get a typical days writing up on the site
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