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Hacks and Hasbeens

3/30/2012 3:50 PM

Mumbles (Shaq) doesn't like them.

Skip Bayless, the worst sports analyst ever on the worst sports show of all time, First Take, doesn't like them. A guy who looks ... 

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Comments: 5

Stepping Stone Garbage

3/29/2012 3:29 PM

The reaction to TU's hiring a 45-year old man who has never coached a basketball game has been predictable: How great, how wonderful, even if turns out he can coach and ... 

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Comments: 10

The New TU Basketball Coach!

3/28/2012 3:36 PM

Should be the old TU basketball coach.

Everybody makes mistakes.

And it appears TU could have made a big one.

It sounded like a good idea to look for a ... 

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Comments: 15

Tiger or Jack?

3/27/2012 2:28 PM

At what, best dresser? Best divorce settlement? Best surgery?

For best golfer, it's no contest.

Jack wins easily.

As Tiger himself has proclaimed, the ... 

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Comments: 6

Dickie XIV

3/26/2012 5:26 PM

For the longest time, we have wondered what, if anything, Dickie V, Dick Vitale, really knew about basketball.

The answer is in.

He knows how to talk a lot, ... 

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Comments: 5

What Does TU Need?

3/22/2012 5:19 PM

The possibilities are as follows:

1. A hot young coach at a nowhere school.

2. An assistant at a great school.

3. An older guy with a great track record.

4. ... 

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Comments: 8

Forget Basketball

3/19/2012 3:21 PM

Who cares about basketball at the moment.

As reported here a thousand times, the Thunder doesn't have enough punch inside to win it all.

NC State will take ... 

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Comments: 11

Hoops: ORWho? New Brats on the Block?

3/15/2012 3:06 PM

There will no gloating over being right about ORU being barely all right. Well, maybe a little. But only because the media wouldn't zip it up about how this team belonged ... 

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Love Them Jucos

3/13/2012 4:01 PM

Listen, anybody can coach a bright Texas high school recruit.

The real challenge comes from guys like the OU juco recruit just arrested for the second time in Nevada. ... 

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Stop Whining

3/12/2012 4:01 PM

It wasn't like ORU had to do anything difficult to reach the NCAA tournament:

Beat a lousy OU team.

Beat something called Western Illinois.

Now the complaining ... 

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March Mildness

3/8/2012 2:58 PM

College basketball is presently a weak fifth behind the Thunder, spring football, golf and NASCAR.

Here's why.

One, there's no great team around here. Kansas ... 

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Comments: 12

The ORU Lesson

3/6/2012 3:39 PM

Regular readers of this material are aware of the arguments we have had with a number of ORU fans concerning the suitability of this basketball team for NCAA tournament ... 

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