The Future Potential of Cybex Testing

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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Bosh’s Decision in Strictly Financial Terms

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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Will Bosh’s Hot Start Continue?

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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18/82 of What We’ll Know: Shifting the November Focus, and a Live Kadri Scouting Report

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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15/82 of What We’ll Know: 28th With a Bullet

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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Triano’s Basketball IQ a Source of Optimism

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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Five for Fighting: Leafs Goaltending, Leafs Youngsters, What Laraques is Cookin, and NHL Rule Changes

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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1/82: What We Know About the Leafs

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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Is Roy Halladay the 2009 Cy Young Winner?

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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1st and Five: Quinn v. Anderson, TO v. Media, Leftwich/Garcia, The Lions Roar, and Duckett v. The World

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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