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When one hears the idiom "You don't know what you've got until it's gone," it is understandable that most people's minds will undoubtedly shift to high school year book quotations, cheesy pop songs, or sappy Facebook updates.  However, despite the brutalization this phrase has taken at the hands of our popular culture, it still succinctly embodies one of the most unavoidable and pervasive tragedies in human existence: no matter how hard ...
Believe me, I know what incredulous stares are greeting the title of this article. I guarantee you a vast majority of those disbelieving glances are from non-Bulls fans. I have never witnessed a player that was so over-valued by non-fans of the team that that player played for, and it's a fact I need to call attention to. There is a reason the Bulls let Ben Gordon walk to an inter-division rival without ...

Things I Could Have Been Doing Waiting For A Cowboy’s Playoff Win

Posted: 11th September 2009 by Mike Carley in NFL
It is the Friday before the first Sunday of the NFL Season.  It's hands down one of the most exciting times of the year, and for the NFL fan the countdown to another 17-plus weeks of excitement now stands at a tantalizing two days. Fantasy football teams are drafted. Suicide/Survivor pools are finalized. The Week One lines are set in Vegas. Most importantly, the 'Boys in Dallas are getting set to strap on their star-studded ...