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Quickie: 03/30/2008 1:12:06pm
Driving down to Detroit with Isaac to see the Elite 8. (...)
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Quickie: 03/19/2008 9:40:08pm
Making my March Madness picks. (...)
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Quickie: 02/06/2008 8:26:34am
Duke vs. North Carolina today. #2 vs. #3. Definitely one of my sports holidays. (...)
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Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich
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Former Duke Players Recognized As Good Sports
Luol Deng, who played a year of college basketball for Duke University, was awarded the NBA sportsmanship award. Of the 5 other divisional winners for the award, Shane Battier and Elton Brand also played for Coach K and the Duke Blue Devils. Three out of six isn’t too bad! (...)
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What is a “Hoya”?
While watching Georgetown during March Madness this year, the question came about their nickname and “What is a Hoya?” We thought it might be some type of bulldog, but after looking it up, I don’t quite feel so stupid for not knowing what a Hoya actually is. No one really knows. (...)
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Michigan Basketball Will Rise
With John Beilein coming to coach the University of Michigan, maybe we can get excited about something other than football again. He did a great job at West Virginia. (...)
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If It Ain’t Rough, It Ain’t Right
The Detroit Pistons once again showed their toughness last night, winning game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Miami Heat still hold a lead in the series at 3-2, but the pressure is now on them to win game 6 on their home court. Everyone knows the Miami doesn’t want to end up in a game 7 back at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Detroit doesn’t lose in those types of games at home. (...)
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Marching On
I love the month of March for two reasons. March Madness and the coming of warmer Michigan weather. The month of March is heaven for college basketball fans and NCAA bball just happens to be my favorite sport to watch. The teamwork, intensity, atmosphere, and everything about the game draws me in. (...)
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ESPNU Full Circle: UNC vs. Duke
See Saturday’s UNC vs. Duke game from all angles brought to you by ESPN. (...)
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A Sporting Thanksgiving
As posted previously, I attended a few professional sports events over the Thanksgiving holiday. Last Wednesday (Nov. 23) my parents left Rogers City bright and early. I’m not sure why they came down so early, but I wasn’t too happy that they interrupted my Xbox 360 time since I had just hooked it up the night before. (...)
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Ranked at the Top
The Blue Devils are ranked #1 in the preseason ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ poll. Go Duke! (...)
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Swish
Can you make the shot? (...)
Nike Air Go
The Nike Air Go was my favorite basketball shoe of all-time. They were much lighter than any other basketball shoe I ever owned. If the site I linked to sold size 14s I think I’d order a pair. (...)
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Magical Madness
Last night #2 North Carolina beat top ranked Illinois 75-70 in the NCAA Championship game. UNC led by 13 at half and was up by as much as 15 in the 2nd half, but Illinois fought back to make for an exciting finish to the best March Madness in history. Words can’t even describe how special it was watching college kids battle on the basketball court for the past three weeks. (...)
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Round 1
With the first round of the 2005 NCAA tournament completed, I couldn’t have asked for better games. I knew it was going to be a great year for March Madness, but didn’t know it was going to be so special. (...)
Blue March
My favorite college basketball team, the Duke Blue Devils, won the ACC tournament today for the 6th time in the last 7 years (lost the title game in OT last year). What’s remarkable about the win is that they didn’t make a field goal for the final 11 minutes of the game, until Sheldon Williams had a tip-in with 3 seconds left. (...)
Lack of Personal Updates
You may have noticed a lack of personal updates here at the MDV. Seriously, there really hasn’t been much exciting going on, but here’s what I’ve been up to the last couple of days. For the past two weeks I’ve been busy working on my web sites, upgrading WordPress installations, writing plugins, and helping out in general with WP. (...)
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Super Bowl Weekend
My Super Bowl weekend couldn’t have started out any worse. On the ride up to Rogers City I hit a porcupine and it cracked up my front bumper. I’m going to try to get it fixed without replacing it. I talked to one of the body shops back home and they said they would be able to take off the bumper, grind it down, and glue it. Roughly $300-$400 to have that done. (...)
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Brown’s Last Job
Detroit will be Larry Brown’s last coaching job. (...)
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Pistons, Engines, Tires, And A Pink Shirt
I received a call from my buddy Jeff on Friday night asking if I’d be interested in a couple of Pistons tickets for Saturday night’s game. Jeff’s friend is a season ticket holder and couldn’t get rid of his seats for the game against the Bulls. (...)
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Only One OT
We had our second basketball game last night. It only went into one overtime and we came out on top by 1 point. The way we started the game I thought we were going to blow them out. Of course our shooting went cold, almost as cold as my cards have been in poker over the past 3 weeks. We were losing at the half and finally caught back up. (...)
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Hoop It Up
Had our first township basketball league game tonight. We lost in the third overtime to a 3 pointer at the buzzer. Our team had 6 guys and they had at least 10. Each of their players were younger than ours. We were down by 12 points at halftime. We should have never gotten back into the game. We will only get better as the season progresses and we get a few more of our players. (...)
Disturbing News Items
The big story in the news over the past few days has been the fight that broke out between players and fans during the NBA game between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers. Artest got his wish with a season long suspension and will now have plenty of time to work on his rap album. I’m glad to see him go, but I feel bad for the Pacers organization, because their season is all but over. (...)
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NCAA Basketball Top 25
ESPN.com has 4 ACC teams ranked in their preseason top 10 and Duke in the next group at #14. Think the ACC doesn’t dominate college basketball? Think again. I was disappointed when Luol Deng went pro and one of the top high school players in the country decided to pass up Duke for the NBA, but they still have a good nucleus of talent. J.J. (...)
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No Trey
There’s talk about eliminated three pointers from the NBA until the final 5 minutes of a game. My guess is it’ll be a short talk. (...)
United States Basketball Loses
The United States basketball team got crushed by Puerto Rico. Are there even any real basketball players in Puerto Rico? Hell, do they even have enough people to form a basketball team? (...)
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Coach K Stays
Coach K turned down the Lakers offer to stay at Duke. Good choice coach! (...)
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#1 Pistons
The Detroit Pistons - #1 team in the World! (...)
Luck The Fakers
I heard it would be a sweep by the Lakers. I heard it would be Lakers in 5, 6, or 7. I never heard once that it would be the Pistons winning the NBA Championship. I believed in Detroit and they came through. It was the Pistons who had the sweep, if it weren’t for a miracle shot by Kobe to put game 2 into overtime, which the Lakers ended up winning. (...)
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Do You Believe Now?
Detroit leads the series 2-1 and it should really be 3-0. They’ve completed dominated the Lakers. I don’t even need to say anymore than that, because if you’ve watched the games, you know what I’m talking about. (...)
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No Sweep For You!
Looks like the Lakers won’t be sweeping the Pistons. Nobody game Detroit a chance, but they walked into L.A. and stole game 1 in convincing fashion. Their defense was simply amazing as usual. Just keep working hard and good things come your way. (...)
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Pistons - Goin’ To Work
What a performance by version 2 of the Bad Boys. They completely dominated tonight’s game with their defense. Ben Wallace never ceases to amaze me, but he pulled out a few suprises tonight with 18 foot jumpers. After winning the first two games of the series I thought the Pistons would coast through round 2, but the Nets won the next 3 to pull ahead. (...)
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I Like To Compete
I don’t care what it is…I like to compete. Whether I’m playing basketball, golfing, playing poker, working, or playing video games, I like to make a competition out of everything. I don’t like to lose to anyone at anything, but I am always up for the challenge. My Dad ingrained the competitive nature in me as a child while playing sports and it has lived on ever since. (...)
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The End Of March Madness
March Madness came to an end last night with the University of Connecticut winning the championship over Georgia Tech. It wasn’t much of a game as UConn led the whole way and the 82-73 final score only looks somewhat close because GT hit about a million three pointers in the final minute. Not to discredit the UConn win, but GT didn’t play very well in the game. (...)
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I Love Spring
Is there any better time of the year than spring? Not for me. The sun comes out from hiding, the snow melts, the grass changes from brown to green, and you can feel the air getting warmer as each day passes. Spring also has that distinct smell that can’t compete with any other season. Everyone seems to be happier and more up-beat during the spring. (...)
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My Week…
I haven’t been updating regularly lately so I thought I’d do a little catching up… On Wednesday I signed a lease for a 2 bedroom duplex so I no longer have to worry about finding a place to live. It’s a nice relief. (...)
March MADNESS
It has been one hell of an NCAA Tournament so far, and it’s only the first weekend! We’ve seen two number 1 seeds fall, Stanford (ESPN’s pick to win it all) and Kentucky (Dick Vitale’s pick to win it all). Duke (my pick) is one of the few teams to dominate both of their games. I don’t remember ever seeing so many close games in the first two rounds. (...)
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TV At Work
Nothing beats having a TV at work during March Madness. I get to check stats and updates on the Internet and watch the games live. The only thing better would be working for ESPN and getting to watch multiple games on multiple TVs at once! Can you tell I love this time of year? (...)
March Madness
Tomorrow marks the beginning of March Madness. The NCAA Men’s College basketball tournament. The Big Dance! It is my favorite sporting event of the year. I’ll be spending a lot of time over the next few weeks in front of the TV or checking scores at work. I’ve filled out my bracket and I have to admit that it was the toughest year that I can recall for making picks. (...)
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Duke Beats UNC Again
Wow…WOW…what a great game! It was back and forth the whole game. I think the biggest lead either team had was 6 points. Duke came out on top 70-65 in one of the greatest rivalries in all of sports. Luol Deng, coming off the worst game of his freshmen year, played phenomenal. He had a career high of 25 points on 12-16 shooting and took over at one point during the second half. (...)
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Basketball Exam
Why are so many kids jumping straight from high school to the NBA these days? Is it because they are that good? For a few, yes, but for most, it is because they are too dumb to be able to be able to pass college classes and maintain their eligibility. Today the University of Georgia released documents relating to NCAA rules violations by their basketball program. (...)
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Playoff Win
We won the first playoff game tonight for basketball league by three points. It was a great game that went back and forth for both halves. I think the biggest lead of the game was six or eight points. At one point during the game, someone on their team yelled out, “We’re losing to a bunch of white boys.” That fired us up a little bit. (...)
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Terrific Tuesday
It was a good day today. I don’t feel like typing much, so I’m going to keep this short. I had a 30 minute phone interview for a programmer/analyst position in Kalamazoo. I think it went pretty well. My new Norelco came in and I can’t wait to try it tomorrow morning. I called M that I met at the bar the other night. We had a nice little chat and are planning to go out. (...)
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This And That
Went out to an 80’s bar last night with a few friends and ended up staying until closing time. As a result I’m feeling a little “under the weather” today. The bar is pretty cool…they have a big screen TV that they play videos on while the song is playing, so you get the feeling that you’re back in the day, listening to some of the music we grew up on. (...)
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Stat Line
About 20 points, 8+ rebounds, 5+ blocks, and 5+ steals to go along with 5+ turnovers and bad defense in the last few minutes. It’s hard to do it all I guess. We lost in overtime by one or two points. The refs are just so inconsistent in this league. At one end of the court the guy calls a good game, but then you play on the other end in the 2nd half and nothing seems to be a foul. (...)
Hack Attack
I felt like I just got done playing in a Gus Macker. The team we played didn’t do anything but reach in the whole game and there was only one ref so he didn’t see much. My arms are red from all the smacks they took. They only had 5 players, but ended up with like 22 fouls. Can you explain to me how a few people didn’t foul out? (...)
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Instant Classic
Duke vs. North Carolina. The greatest rivalry in college basketball. Tonight’s game was at North Carolina and it was an awesome game. The Duke Blue Devils will be driving back home to Durham, North Carolina as a team that has won 16 straight games and holds onto the #1 ranking in the country. It was a great game to watch and will be an ESPN Instant Classic. (...)
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On Fire
We had another game for basketball league tonight. The opposing team scored 25 points and yours truly had 21 himself. We beat them 32-25. As a team we played pretty horrible, as you can tell by the lack of scoring by the rest of the team. But that is what a superstar is for…right? My shot was dead on tonight and it felt great. (...)
4 Game Winning Streak
Today we finally played a good game in basketball league. We beat a team (by about 14) that we barely lost to in the first half of the season. We really shot well and took good shots. My shot finally came around as I stepped in closer to the basket and made a few drives to the hole. I had at least 20 of our 54 or so points. Felt good to finally drill some shots. (...)
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Hot Basketball Teams
The Detroit Pistons have won their 13th game in a row, tying a franchise record. They beat the defending champion Spurs tonight. Duke took over the #1 spot in the Coaches and AP polls today. Go Blue Devils! (...)
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Complete Exhaustion
Being at a visitation and a funeral may make for the most exhausting two days a person can handle. I spent about 4-5 hours at the funeral home yesterday and then we were leaving the house at 8 this morning to head out to the church for the funeral. After the brunch, we were finally on the way home at about 1 o’clock. (...)
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It Begins Today
This post doesn’t really have any overall topic…so excuse the jumbled mess. I said I was going to start getting in shape and it started today. Just got back from our basketball game for Saginaw Township. We won by about 5 points and are now 2-2 for the season. Everyone was pretty rusty from the holiday break, so we’re happy to pull out the win. (...)
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Drill Another One
Just got back from the dentist…AGAIN! I had another big cavity filled to use up the rest of my dental insurance for the year. I hate going to that place, but it’s my own damn fault. If I would take better care of my teeth, I wouldn’t have these problems. (...)
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Enjoying My Break
I’ve been enjoying my holiday break a great deal. At the same time, I miss being back in Saginaw at my apartment, but this is a nice little get-away. I’ve been sleeping in until at least 10 every morning and I didn’t even leave the house yesterday. The big project yesterday was to get a page up with poker chip tricks tutorial, and so far the page is getting a lot of attention. (...)
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Only A Handful
We only had 5 guys tonight and the other team had 8, but we won easily. I think we ended up winning 42-28 or something close to that. At the end of the game we were moving pretty slow. It was the team chemistry that really made the difference tonight. Almost all of our shots were wide open (a lot of layups) and we played good defense. (...)
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A Piece Of History
Yesterday, my dad, brother, and I were a part of basketball history. We attended the BasketBowl at Ford Field, where Michigan State lost to Kentucky 79-74, in front of 78,129 people; the largest crowd in basketball history (at any level of play). I bought the tickets as Christmas gifts to them and we had a good time. (...)
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Another Loss
We had our 2nd game for Basketball league tonight. We lost 54-51. I think I had 15 or maybe 17 points. We were down by 10 with under 3 minutes and made a nice little come back. I hit 2 three pointers in the last minute to pull within one and then fouled (they made both free throws), but we didn’t get a good shot off at the end of the game. (...)
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Duke Smoked Michigan State
The Blue Devils really put it to the Spartans tonight! What a great game to watch for a Duke fan (me). Jeff came over, we got some pizza, had a few beers, and watched the game on the big screen. Only another week and a half and I’ll be at Ford Field for the biggest basketball game in history (over 75,000 tickets sold) when MSU and Kentucky play. (...)
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4 Overtimes
We lost our first game tonight in the 4th overtime. We pretty much got screwed by the refs the entire game, but we also had our chances to win. To be honest, we played horrible and still should have won the game. I think we lost 56-46, and don’t even know if we scored at all in that 4th OT. It was only the first game, so I’m not worried, but am still kind of pissed. (...)
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Out Of Shape
After running basketball practice with Isaac’s high school varsity team today, I found out that I might be in the worst shape of my life! I’m playing in a basketball league in Saginaw township starting in December, so I guess I better get back into a routine of running a few times a week. (...)
