Title: 47/82 of What We’ll Know: We Suck Again
Date: January 14, 2010
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Keeping with the 1/82 theme intermittently reviewing the Leafs’ season, I concluded what many had concluded 47 games earlier – that the Leafs were very bad.
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Title: Geoff Frigault Owns Asiago Dip, Chefs Everywhere
Date: January 11, 2010
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: After a month off from writing over the holidays, I returned to write about…food? This article was a joke, but he really did make the hell out of that dip.
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Title: How Steve Nash Stole Christmas
Date: December 8, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Another basketball blog had created Steve Nash Internet Day, and I participated by remembering the Raptors/Suns game from just after Christmas 2006 (January 2007), when Steve Nash single-handedly defeated the Raptors after receiving the Canadian Male Athlete of the Year Award.
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Title: Raptors Quarter Season Evaluations
Date: December 3, 2009
Original Source: Raptors Republic
Synopsis: This Raptors Republic article was a quarterly review, player-by-player, for the Toronto Raptors. I identified a “key number” for each player and outlined reasons I hate said player at that point in time. It’s not a very positive piece.
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Title: 26/82 of What We’ll Know: Assymptotic to the Playoffs and Some Love for Matt Stajan
Date: December 2, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Keeping with the 1/82 theme, I tried to get optimistic about a better November for the Leafs…wait, I was optimistic after a 5-5-3 month IMPROVED on a 1-7-4 October? No wonder these 1/82 segments were sporadic. I also give some love for Matt Stajan, which is unintentionally hilarious in retrospect.
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Title: The Future Potential of Cybex Testing
Date: November 30, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: I fancied myself a scientist for a day, I suppose, and took a look at a sports medicine innovation that is a bit over my head. Cybex Testing is a form of muscle and joint analysis, and this article looked at a few studies on its potential and how it could help the sports industry.
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Title: Bosh’s Decision in Strictly Financial Terms
Date: November 26, 2009
Original Source: Raptors Republic
Synopsis: This Raptors Republic piece broke down Chris Bosh’s free agency decision based on teams’ available cap, state taxes, CBA rules, and cost of living index to determine which location would be the best for him in purely financial terms.
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Title: Will Bosh’s Hot Start Continue?
Date: November 20, 2009
Original Source: Raptors Republic
Synopsis: This Raptors Republic piece took a look at the red-hot start of franchise superstar Chris Bosh, as through 12 games he was one of the league’s most dominant players.
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Title: 18/82 of What We’ll Know: Shifting the November Focus, and a Live Kadri Scouting Report
Date: November 16, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Keeping with the 1/82 theme, I reviewed my up-close look at Leafs’ prospect Nazem Kadri, who I took a trip down the street to the Kitchener Auditorium to see in action with his London Knights.
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Title: 15/82 of What We’ll Know: 28th With a Bullet
Date: November 10, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: With the Leafs off to an atrocious start to the season, I looked back at the first 1/5-segment of what was promising to be a long year.
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