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...fans who fell in love with the '80s NBA, an era of great players (Bird, Magic, Michael, Isaiah, Barkley) and even greater rivalries, most of which involved Daly's Pistons. Sure, Boston-Los Angeles received the top billing, but the Boston-Detroit, Chicago-Detroit, and Los Angeles-Detroit playoff series are all classics. "I think Chuck understood people as well as basketball," Pistons great Joe Dumars once said. "It's a people business." Hoops lost a good one today, a pillar of the sport's last golden...
Heralded as potentially one of the best first-round series ever by famed Boston-bred sportswriter Bill Simmons after scintillating Game 1, the series has been just that: the single best first-round series ever. It just got the record for most overtimes played in an NBA playoff series in history--in only six games. It has played 7 overtimes, the previous record was 4. Heroic performances and huge moments have been a staple in this series. Game 6 alone included Joakim Noah's epic steal and dunk, Ray Allen's antics, which included several ridiculous shots and 51 points...
...floating in the free agent pool.Penn’s Ben Noll is on the practice squad for the Detroit Lions, while Brown alum Chas Gessner, after getting released by the Seahawks, signed with the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League, where he scored three touchdowns in their playoff loss to the Cleveland Gladiators.Princeton’s Ross Tucker is, in my opinion, the consummate Ivy Leaguer. After getting cut by the Redskins, Tucker took up journalism and writes occasionally for SI.com. He also sometimes hosts for Sirius NFL Radio, and he co-founded a high school recruiting...
...wasn’t the injury alone that prompted Witt’s departure. Football at Harvard was just not his brand of football. The lack of enthusiasm from students, the Ivy League restrictions, the impossibility of seeing an NCAA playoff spot: for Witt, it all led to a second-tier level of competition that was not reflected in the talent or devotion of the players themselves...
...Making a splash in first-year coach Brian Baise’s playoff debut will be anything but easy. Playing the role of underdog perhaps a little too well, the Crimson enters tonight’s contest with an undermanned staff of only nine players to its opponent?...