Title: A Quick Tournament Review in Teams
Date: April 3, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: To wrap up the 2007 March Madness tournament, I named a bunch of players to arbitrarily defined teams.
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Title: A Running Diary of the Blue Jays’ Opener
Date: April 2, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: My first try at a running diary feature, a la Bill Simmons, covering the season opening game for the 2007 Toronto Blue Jays.
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Title: Toronto Blue Jays Season Preview, Part 2
Date: March 29, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Pretty straight-forward, position-by-position preview for the 2007 Toronto Blue Jays.
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Title: Weekend Preview
Date: March 29, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Approaching one of the year’s biggest sports weekends, I took a look ahead at everything on the immediate horizon for sports fans.
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Title: Toronto Blue Jays Season Preview, Part 1
Date: March 27, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Pretty straight-forward, position-by-position preview for the 2007 Toronto Blue Jays.
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Title: Random Thoughts From the Weekend
Date: March 25, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Four articles into my career and already lacking topics? Come on! Anyway, this “random thoughts” approach comes back throughout the course of my archives, although this one was especially all over the place.
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Title: The Case for a Sam Mitchell Contract Extension
Date: March 22, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: This one certainly doesn’t look great in retrospect, but at the time Sam was getting some love as a potential Coach of the Year despite being a lame duck.
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Title: March Madness Opening Weekend in Review
Date: March 21, 2007
Original Source: The on Deck Circle
Synopsis: After the initial article was a “success,” I followed up with a review of the tournament’s first weekend.
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Title: March Madness Preview
Date: March 15, 2007
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: My very first article, this was a comprehensive preview of the 2007 March Madness tournament. Originally posted to Facebook, the positive reaction it received from friends was encouragement to try writing more.
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