Title: Why the Jays Should Call Up Curtis Thigpen
Date: May 24, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Another one that looks embarrassing now, but the logic would still apply today with any similar roster composition.
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Title: Thoughts on the 2007 NBA Draft Lottery
Date: May 23, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Oden or Durant? More important than the question was who that question would fall to. It was Portland, and we all know how that turned out.
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Title: An Analysis of Canadian Sports Television
Date: May 22, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: I probably should have deleted this article if I ever wanted to work for a Canadian TV station, but I can always remove it during a job search.
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Title: A Look at Mayweather vs de la Hoya
Date: May 4, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Five years later, Mayweather is still looking for his next “last big fight,” but at the time I thought this might be it.
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Title: The Perils of Captain Hook
Date: May 3, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: I was not a fan of Toronto Blue Jays’ Manager John Gibbons. Looking back, criticizing a manager for his handling of Josh Towers and Victor Zambrano seems unfair, and this clearly should have been aimed at the General Manager.
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Title: Random Thoughts From the Weekend
Date: April 23, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: April 2007 was a great month to begin sports writing. Clearly a lot going on each weekend, which was cause for another random thoughts column.
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Title: The Oden vs Durant Debate
Date: April 22, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Boy, do I look good in retrospect on this one, or what? My friend Alex thought Greg Oden was the choice to make, I thought it was Kevin Durant. The debate ensued. Victory.
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Title: 2007 NBA Playoff Preview
Date: April 21, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: The Raptors were a 3-seed…so this was obviously a long time ago.
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Title: 2007 NBA Awards
Date: April 20, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Because I had a robust month of writing experience, I figured I deserved a vote for some NBA hardware. In retrospect, some of the picks were pretty good, while some are pretty shameful (like “not a huge Nash fan”….really?). Alas, we grow.
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Title: Some Necessary Venting
Date: April 16, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Just a few random rambling paragraphs about some different issues that weren’t long enough for a post of their own.
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