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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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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