Clutch players need not apply
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What looks good on paper hasn't been tested through a season yet, so Bruce Crowder said he'll reserve judgment. He wasn't talking about rosters; he was talking about a commitment from college hockey authorities to rid the game of all the clutching and grabbing, the pinning, and tugging.
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Denver forward Carmelo Anthony, whose season has been marred by a ban for fighting, was snubbed in the selection of the National Basketball Association All-Star reserves.
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NEW ORLEANS - AmarÃ© Stoudemire did not want to be a starting center. Shawn Marion was not excited about taking on power forwards.
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Republic sports columnist Paola Boivin sounds like she is too close to the NBA players. It is not the fans, Paola. Of course, the behavior of the fans in Detroit was inexcusable, but Ron Artest is given one directive from the NBA: Do not enter the stands.
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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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They called it Opening Night, and with good reason. There were lots of openings. Openings as in vacant seats. Openings as in positions unfilled; no point guard for the Nets, no fearsome rebounder, either.
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Momentum does not appear to play a big role in determining a World Series champion. For every example of a team that seemed to feed off its recent success, there is a counterexample.
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Jeff Bzdelik won't recruit a player who can't knock down the 3. Those players who were at Air Force before Bzdelik's arrival at the academy last year quickly realized they had to start sinking 3-pointers themselves to earn any playing time, and that included big man John Frye, a 6-foot-10 senior center who had attempted just one 3-pointer in his life.
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Knicks fans are not into witnessing superior visitors like LeBron James. These folks want heads to roll, most specifically that of Isiah Thomas.
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Far be it from me to question Doc Rivers's coaching at this point of the young season, but was anyone else watching the Wizards-Celtics game last Wednesday -- I know you're out there, it's OK to admit it -- and wondering why Al Jefferson was not sent into the game when Raef LaFrentz fouled out?
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Ignore the rankings. Ignore recent form. Remember this: You never can count a Williams out.
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There will be a strange phenomenon in spring training this year. Camps will be full of players who have been named in the Mitchell Report. They will play among players who weren't caught and maybe never will be caught. They will play alongside players who never used. They will play among players who might still be using HGH because there's ...
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With 25 games remaining in the season, the Celtics have nothing to play for other than ping-pong balls, but that's not something coach Doc Rivers will attempt to sell his young team. Instead, he's motivating the players by focusing on improvement in practice and challenging them to play the role of spoiler.
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The Knicks have discovered how to be competitive. They just have not figured out how to make the plays that matter most.
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PHILADELPHIA -- To most teams, Ron Artest would be a distraction. If he is that to the Indiana Pacers, itâsa distraction some other teams might like to have, and Jermaine OâNeal, for one, wishes people would pay attention to that.
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The San Antonio Spurs found a good way to beat Minnesota: take Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell out of the Timberwolves&#39; offense.
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Sport: Steve McClaren crushes the notion that player power will have anything to do with his team selection.