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When James Harden, the 2012 NBA Sixth Man of the Year was drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder with the third overall pick at the 2009 NBA Draft, he could be considered almost clean shaven in comparison to how he appears now, rocking his celebrated buccaneer beard.
Although ESPN/ABC lead basketball analyst Jeff Van Gundy [...]

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Five-star forward Amile Jefferson, a senior at Friends’ Central School in Philadelphia, Pa., signed a national letter of intent to play basketball at Duke University beginning in the 2012-13 season, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and his staff announced on Tuesday.
“We are ecstatic about Amile joining us,” Krzyzewski said. “He is a [...]

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BY KIMORA COCHRAN
If it does not anger you enough to know the media has found the subtle means to bring back racist archetypes and minstrel shows, by the way of VH1’s Basketball Wives to Oxygen’s bad Girls Club, surely the comments of new York Post writer Phil Mushnick should leave you feeling absolutely livid.
Earlier this [...]

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Football is big business. the sums of money involved in the game at the highest level are truly incredible.
In an ESPN article last year, it was revealed that, on average, Barcelona’s players earn $7,910,737 a year—the most in the world. In second place, with an average of just $7,356,632, is Real Madrid. In fact, five [...]

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By Dan Ambrose: Instead of pouring praise over his conqueror Chad Dawson last night after losing to him by a 12 round majority decision in Atlantic City, Bernard Hopkins suggests that he needed a knockout in order to beat the younger 29-year-old Dawson. Hopkins lost by the scores of 117-111, 117-111 and 114-114. it sure [...]

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By Jeffrey Zrebiec, The Baltimore Sun
June 2–SEATTLE– Always one to tell you exactly how he feels, center fielder Adam Jones put his modesty aside when he discussed his leaping catch of Miguel Olivo’s drive in the fourth inning of the Orioles’ 2-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday.
Asked whether the catch against [...]

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There will be no shortage of star pitchers on the mound this weekend. This list includes five Cy Young winners — Justin Verlander, Clayton Kershaw, Roy Halladay, Tim Lincecum and CC Sabathia — in addition to Stephen Strasburg, Jered Weaver, Josh Johnson and Ian Kennedy. in Friday’s Triple Play, our analysts discuss their favorite pitching [...]

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When John and Wendy Walsh had their first child, Sara, there was little choice about what hobbies Sara would be interested in. John was a certified sports nut, and it rubbed off on his daughter. and that environment led Sara from high school star all the way to ESPN anchor.
As a child, while other girls [...]

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The Lakers beat the Warriors Tuesday night, but Andrew Bynum spent most of the second half on the bench. all because of this three-pointer early in the third quarter.
As Dave McMenamin reports at ESPN:
Brown subbed Bynum out of the game shortly thereafter, putting in Josh McRoberts with 9:33 remaining in the third and not playing [...]

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Things started to get bad publically on March 7, after the Lakers lost back-to-back games to Washington and Detroit; after the game Bynum admitted to not giving his best efforts on the floor that night.
“I was out there kind of loafing around, having a good time,” Bynum said. “It caught up.”
A [...]

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