Title: Triano’s Basketball IQ a Source of Optimism
Date: October 21, 2009
Original Source: Raptors Republic
Synopsis: This Raptors Republic piece showed excitement for Jay Triano’s coaching potential ahead of the 2009 NBA season. It doesn’t look great in retrospect, but I really did expect him to excel in the role.
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Title: Five for Fighting: Leafs Goaltending, Leafs Youngsters, What Laraques is Cookin, and NHL Rule Changes
Date: October 16, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: In advance of my long-awaited return to the ice, I hit on a few different NHL topics of interest.
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Title: 1/82: What We Know About the Leafs
Date: October 2, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: After the Toronto Maple Leafs’ season opening overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens, I introduced a sporadic Leafs-in-review column inexplicably and unoriginally named 1/82.
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Title: Is Roy Halladay the 2009 Cy Young Winner?
Date: October 1, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: I put homerism aside to try and judge the 2009 AL Cy Young race between Roy Halladay, Justin Verlander, and Zack Greinke.
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Title: 1st and Five: Quinn v. Anderson, TO v. Media, Leftwich/Garcia, The Lions Roar, and Duckett v. The World
Date: September 30, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: You would think that by this point I would have learned to give up attempting to create weekly features, but you’d be wrong. 1st and Five was to be a weekly random-thoughts type of column on the NFL, and this was its first installment.
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Title: Please Welcome Me Back to NHL Fanhood
Date: September 25, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: After a 5-year hiatus from playing the game and letting NHL hockey fall to the back of my mind after the lockout, I found myself back in hockey’s icy-warm embrace.
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Title: Tim Tebow: Jaguar Savior?
Date: September 17, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Long before Tebowmania rocked the football world in 2011, I pined for my Jacksonville Jaguars to draft local boy and Florida legend Tim Tebow.
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Title: Canadian NFL Fans and Changing Favorite Teams
Date: September 10, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: As a frustrated Jacksonville Jaguars fan living in Canada, I wondered if and when it would ever be appropriate for a non-market fan (like a Canadian) to switch NFL allegiances.
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Title: American League Playoff Races
Date: September 4, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: With no American League playoff races tight in early September, I pointed out that some schedule quirks down the stretch could still make for some interesting battles.
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Title: Being Quentin Richardson
Date: September 3, 2009
Original Source: The Good Point
Synopsis: This article for The Good Point took a look at the crazy summer of Quentin Richardson, who was traded four times in just a few months.
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