Word: preseasonitis
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...season was not kind to Giambi, 33. He had obviously lost weight when he reported to Yankees preseason camp in February, and by July he had lost bat speed and 65 points against his .302 career average. He lost the month of August to a mysterious ailment that was later diagnosed as a benign tumor. (The tumor, which the New York Daily News reported was near his pituitary gland, could be linked to Clomid, a women's fertility drug that boosts testosterone production and that Giambi has admitted he might have used.) And last week it seemed possible he could...
...preseason first-team All-MAAC selection, declared himself eligible for the NBA Draft last spring, but withdrew a week before the draft took place...
...voters’ biases remain. As in Division I-A football—where USC arguably may remain atop the polls not on the strength of its undefeated record but instead its preseason No. 1 ranking—pundits are unlikely to second-guess themselves and will reverse their prognostications only when egregiously in error...
Northeastern was led by junior guard Jose Juan Barea, who came into the contest averaging 29.5 points, six assists and three steals through two games. Barea—a unanimous preseason All-America East selection and the nation’s fourth-ranked scorer last season among returning players—was nearly unstoppable in the first 30 minutes, when he had all of his game high 30 points on 11-18 shooting...
Northeastern was led by junior guard Jose Juan Barea, who came into the contest averaging 29.5 points, six assists and three steals through two games. Barea—a unanimous preseason All-America East selection and the nation’s fourth-ranked scorer last season among returning players—was nearly unstoppable in the first 30 minutes, when he had all of his game high 30 points on 11-18 shooting...