Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Seattle thought it was getting its Sonics back -- for a moment, anyway -- until a group led by rich Seattlites Chris Hansen (not the pedophile catcher) and Microsoft bigwig Steve Ballmer was totally c-blocked by a vote of the NBA's ownership. The decision was not a vote against Seattle, ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2013
Seattleites have spent the better part of two decades as America's premier bellyachers. Whether it was the grunge music movement, the officiating in the Seahawks' Super Bowl loss to the Steelers or the SuperSonics' departure to Oklahoma City, moaning is their specialty.
But sometimes all that griping turns out for the ...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Patrick Dorsey, presumably no relation to Ken, penned an excellent ESPN Page 2 column on Monday which detailed the sheer hell that comes with being a Miami sports fan.
But Patrick didn't quite go far enough when he said that Miami is on its way to becoming America's Most Miserable Sports ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The NBA Draft is Thursday, and this year's draft, which many are already calling the weakest in recent memory, is as unpredictable as any I can remember. After Blake Griffin, everything is a toss up.
There are a ton of question marks. And you just know at least half of the ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Friend of the program Thporth made an interesting discovery today while checking out the newly released NBA schedules for next season (yes, he is the only person I know that would look at an NBA schedule the day it came out).
As it turns out, several teams still have Seattle on ...
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