Title: Comprehensive Toronto Blue Jays Season Preview
Date: March 30, 2008
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: I wasn’t overly optimistic about the season’s results, but it didn’t stop me from writing way too many words about each and every Blue Jay, as well as some general thoughts on the upcoming season.
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Title: Handicapping Wrestlemania
Date: March 30,l 2008
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Just like I did for the Royal Rumble, I decided to apply some odds to predetermined events. It saddens me that I haven’t made this an annual staple of the site.
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Title: Your Own Spring Training – Getting Ready for Your Baseball/Slo-Pitch Season
Date: March 28, 2008
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: My friend Mike is a great baseball player. I am a jack-show juice-pig beast-mode muscle-fest. So it only made sense that we collaborated on an article to get readers ready for their Slo-Pitch seasons, covering baseball drills and workout tips.
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Title: The Seventh ODC Podcast
Date: March 27, 2008
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: I have no idea if the links for these podcasts will work anymore, but I do have them backed up on my computer for future reference. For the seventh installment, my friend Stu came on and we went all over the place, discussing baseball, basketball, wrestling, and more.
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Title: Developing the D-League
Date: March 27, 2008
Original Source: Hoops Addict
Synopsis: This Hoops Addict article took a look at the NBA’s Developmental League, and how it could grow from a business and basketball standpoint to continue to serve its purpose as a viable feeder system for the NBA. Like all of my HA articles, the links have been lost due to a server transfer, but the text was backed up.
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Title: Southeast Division Recap
Date: March 26, 2008
Original Source: About.com
Synopsis: After branching out from The ODC to Hoops Addict, I also got hooked up doing weekly Southeast Division reviews for About.com. Why? Because the site is USA Today affiliated, and because I had a connection with the editor and he needed someone on short notice. It only lasted a few weeks of the season and into the summer, and the links are now lost (About.com doesn’t keep archives of previous seasons’ weekly division reviews, because apparently nobody cares what the Wizards’ outlook was in late March of 2008, go figure), but luckily I have backups and can recover the text.
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Title: Interview with Carl English
Date: March 25, 2008
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Believe it or not, I managed to get multiple exclusive interviews with Team Canada’s Carl English. I suppose this doesn’t sound like much, but since he was in Spain at the time, he’s my favorite player to never play in the NBA (I am Newfie, as well, after all), and I scored an interview a few months into my “writing career,” it was a big deal for me. The interview itself isn’t bad either.
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Title: March Madness First Weekend Review
Date: March 24, 2008
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: After 42 hours of basketball in four days, I shook off the cobwebs and reviewed the tournament’s first weekend.
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Title: Blue Jays Spring Training Update
Date: March 23, 2008
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: With Reed Johnson cut and the Left Field situation cleared up, there were only bullpen questions remaining. With just a week or two before Opening Day, I provided a general training camp update.
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Title: The Sixth ODC Podcast
Date: March 20, 2008
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: I have no idea if the links for these podcasts will work anymore, but I do have them backed up on my computer for future reference. This time around, my friend Alex and I discussed all things March Madness in advance of the tournament’s opening weekend.
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