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Category Archives: sports

More Gladwell Basketball!

For those of you who liked the last post, this is pure internet gold: Gladwell meets The Sports Guy! In _three_ parts! Good god, Peaches just exploded!

The Steal

The Times magazine has a _fantastic_ article on basketball statistics, using Shane Battier as a case study. I enjoyed this article so much that I would make love to it if I had it in hardcopy, nevermind the messiness and social awkwardness that would result. The piece discusses intelligently a topic that is [...]

Top 40

The Sports Guy has his annual NBA Trade Value column up, finally.  It is my favorite Sports Guy column every year.  In it, he ranks the top players in the NBA according to these rules:
1. Salaries matter. Over this season and the next two, would you rather pay David West $27 million or Amare Stoudemire $43 [...]

Basketball talk

My chief pleasure since I moved to NH is watching the Celtics. Comcast Sports Net broadcasts all of the games, and since my roomate has cable I don’t even have to pay extra for it. I’ve seen every single game except for one, and it reminds me of the high school era when, [...]