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A Wednesday Night Phoenix Trifecta (That I Mostly Missed)
Posted: 16th April 2010 by Jess Root in MLB
Wednesday night was a good night for Phoenix sports. The Suns won their regular season finale and locked up the number three seed for the playoffs, the Coyotes won their playoff opener, and the Diamondbacks pulled off a come from behind/blown lead/extra inning victory over the evil Dodgers. And I missed most of it.
I should be used to it now, being "trapped" (and willingly so) by my other responsibilities of ...
Amare Stoudemire: I’m Not “Retarded” Or Confused Anymore
Posted: 14th April 2010 by Jess Root in NBA
I didn’t hear it on the Doug and Wolf show a couple of weeks ago when Amare Stoudemire was on (you see, I have that cursed thing called work—I mean, if I don’t do it, who is going to teach the kids how to use the subjunctive mood in Spanish?), but I read about it .
He said this:
“They’re simply retarded and that they haven’t been watching my career at all ...
There is almost nothing like the start of the regular season for baseball fans.
Enthusiasm abounds. At the start of the season, every team is even (yes, the Yankees and Red Sox are always favored, but all teams begin together).
We, as fans, look forward to what could be—that our favorite players’ flaws will be corrected or improved this year (cough, cough, Mark Reynolds), that that once promising player will turn it around ...