For Hawks, Not Easy as 1-2-3
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Thursday's draft will get interesting not with the top two picks but with the third selection held by the moribund Atlanta Hawks.
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San Diego -- The sports cliche about taking them one game at a time does not apply in a final-week drive for the playoffs. That, the players say, is looking too far ahead.
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A team fighting for its life -- in more ways than one -- plays on.
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But this rotation of No. 1 teams, which had a host of them a year ago, might not be as fluid this season if Illinois keeps playing the way it did Wednesday night.
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To say the Jets needed this game requires about as much thought as tying your shoes. Next week they have the ferocious Patriots. The following week they have to fly out to St.
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The Bruins' road to a postseason berth remains steep, but it would be more difficult today if two other teams also struggling for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference hadn't also squandered points last night.
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It is an all-for-one, one-for-all game if ever one existed. The complexity, the speed, the violence all dictate that, and even those who practice the team concept fervently sometimes find it isn&#39;t good enough.
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The odds are against this trio.
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BENSENVILLE, Ill. -- After losing 12 of 15 games, the Chicago Blackhawks went on the offensive Monday, switching coaches and styles.
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Opponents aren't the only ones having a tough time matching Max Darrah's pace. Record-keepers are struggling to keep up, as well.
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Bill Self doesn't mind that his third-ranked Kansas Jayhawks' path to an 11-0 record has included some bumps on the road.
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Sure, the Bulls are becoming familiar with winning, but this was different than what they&#39;ve faced during the winning streak - and much more difficult.
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International teams, almost all of them, have many capable shooters -- especially from 3-point range. Get caught in a screen, leave them uncontested, be slow getting out, and inevitably they&#39;ll hit those shots.
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As we head down the stretch of the season, the significance of each game will be amplified. While it is difficult to envision any team looking past an opponent at this juncture of the season
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It&#39;s not easy to compile a passer rating of 0.00. All the greats have tried. Most have failed. There was Atlanta&#39;s Kurt Kittner.
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They had lost to Vermont, 89-45, last Sunday and barely got by Longwood University, 63-58, a team with a 1-18 record, on Tuesday. Put it this way -- the University of Hartford Hawks weren't exactly on a roll going into last night's game at Boston University.
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It is one thing to lose at home by 25 points to the third-ranked team in the nation, one that could very well win it all in March. But it was quite another to lose another home game to a team almost everyone expected Boston College to beat.