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Neymar Shows The World Why You Should Care About Neymar

E. Maisonet, III — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:41:10 +0000

In this day and age of the internet, becoming a Youtube sensation is something we’ve just become used to. High school football players create these mixtapes and gather hundreds of thousands of views on their video by running wild through a bevy of overwhelmed prepsters. We’ve seen amateur basketball players create mixtapes by dunking on [...]

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QOTD: What Is Your Favorite Arcade Game Of All Time?

E. Maisonet, III — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:00:16 +0000

In the 1990s, it was clockwork. My Aunt Monica loves shopping. She will go to any length to purchase things to her heart’s content. It could be in a shopping catalog, it could be on QVC or it could be a mom-and-pop shop. If they had nice things, she was in there to check it [...]

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4 Things Boxing Can Learn From The UFC

Paul Navarro — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:29:14 +0000

This is not a story about the death of boxing. Those reports are woefully exaggerated and usually the result of poor context. Even still, when it comes to marketing, presentation and having the pulse of sports fans, the UFC has a lot it can teach the sweet science. Why? There’s a lot of reasons. First, I [...]

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It’s Not Easy Being Danny Green

Rev. P. Revere — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:00:55 +0000

As you may have heard, San Antonio Spurs forward Danny Green has been going bonkers from beyond the arc during this postseason and especially in the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat. So much so that his name is being tossed around as a potential Finals MVP should the Spurs take home title number five [...]

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Today’s Obituaries: Michael Lloyd Miller (1980 – 2013)

E. Maisonet, III — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:03:07 +0000

(Ed’s Note: Today’s Obituaries is a satire series that runs on The Sports Fan Journal. Don’t be lame and get offended. Thanks.) Michael Lloyd Miller, 33, passed away on Tuesday, June 18th, 2013, during game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals as the San Antonio Spurs squared off with the Miami Heat. Miller, the legendary forward of the Florida [...]

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The NBA Finals, The Anti-Hero And The Generational War

Matt Whitener — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:00:33 +0000

Watching the NBA Finals annually now is as much an exercise in seeing the highest caliber basketball possible as it is watching a sociology experiment gone haywire. Since the Miami Heat have taken to their annual appearance in the Finals, the talk has been about the idea of LeBron James and friends not winning far [...]

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Stanley Cup Finals: Dominant Bruins, Sluggish Ice Take Game 3

Dillon Friday — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:40:05 +0000

It was Socrates who said, “A wise man admits he knows nothing.” In accordance with the philosopher, the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final made a lot of wise men out of hockey fans. Hit posts, missed chances, sudden shifts in momentum and timely goals left the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks [...]

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If We Long For Greatness, Why Do We Root Against It?

M. Trible — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:04:58 +0000

Last week, I wrote an ad for a freelance sportswriter that included two simple questions. In order to write about sports, you must have a passion for them. The passion must go beyond average interest. If not, you will bore and tire of the job. You will become a slug or a hack – or [...]

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Why Doesn’t LeBron James Dunk On People Anymore?

E. Maisonet, III — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:01:00 +0000

I’ll be damned if that question didn’t pop back into my brain again during Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs. A question’s that been brewing in the back of my mind for almost three years now. That question always seems to arise in crucial moments, with the [...]

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A Basketball Visit To North Korea

Steven LeBron — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:38:48 +0000

Last Friday’s Vice on HBO episode was the much talked about visit by Dennis Rodman and three members of the Harlem Globetrotters to North Korea for an exhibition game of basketball in front of 10,000 fans and the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un. North Korea as a country has been, well, hard to choose just one [...]

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Bring Back The Chili Dogs: HBO’s Hard Knocks Returns To The Queen City

E. Maisonet, III — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:59:57 +0000

As the NBA Finals begin to wind down and the summer officially on the horizon, red-blooded American sports fans will begin to feel the drought of quality sports programming on their televisions. Sure, things like the NBA Draft, the MLB All-Star Game and the ummm…Little League World Series…can serve as short-term remedies, but for 7 [...]

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“I Sit In The House By Myself With The Lights Off, Watching The Game With The Volume Up Real High.”

E. Maisonet, III — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:32:22 +0000

It’s like clockwork. Maybe 1-2 hours before any given big game, the text messages and phone calls will begin. “Kinfolk, where you at?” “Yo, where we watching the game at?” “Fam, you want to link up at the bar to watch the game?” “Come thru, got a few folks swinging by for the game.” “Bring yo [...]

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