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Surprising conclusion to the Johan Santana Sweepstakes aside, when it comes to baseball, informationally speaking this time of year is generally filled with more tumbleweeds than your average Western. Everyone is basically just killing time until Spring Training, when most of the substantive questions start to get answered. In that spirit, earlier in the week, […]

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Hawks 88, Clippers 95: It was the Al Thornton Show Thursday night at Staples, as the rookie forward dropped 33 on the hapless Hawks. Thornton is developing nearly as fast as — dare I say — Andrew Bynum? At this rate, L.A. will be home to two […]

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Lakers 120, Knicks 109: Needing a spark after falling behind by eight points in the fourth, the Lakers turned to an unlikely offensive source…. Sasha Vujacic (surprised me too). The fourth year guard scored 12 of his 20 points in the final period, including a career-high five […]

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Well, Laker lovers, Happy Days were Here Again.
Just like the song that was published just before the stock market crash in 1929 that led to the Great Depression, the music was cheerfully playing for the Lakers… until Andrew Bynum went down.
Sadly, when Bynum went to the floor, he took the Lakers’ chances of winning the […]

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It’s the mid-season, which means that I don’t have to come up with a column idea! Here are Lakers and NBA award picks for the midseason:
MVP, Lakers: Um, duh.
MVP, NBA: As much as I’d like to pick LeBron for putting the Cavs on his back on the strength of what may be his best statistical season to […]

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Bobcats 107, Clippers 100: 19. No, that wasn’t the total attendance at Staples last night, or the the number of days until Sam Cassell is bought out of his contract. It actually represents the number of starting lineups Mike Dunleavy has used this season due […]

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Cavs 98, Lakers 95: Rough goings for the Lakers, who made LeBron work way too hard for three quarters (27 points on 25 shots), overcame a bizarre ceiling leak and built up a 2 point lead heading into the fourth. But that frame saw LBJ catch fire […]

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Ducks 1, Kings 3: Don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting that the Ducks hit the panic button. We’ll just call this little four-game skid “adversity.” They haven’t really faced any so-called adversity since the return of Scott Niedermayer until now. Conversely, the Kings halted a four-game […]

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This could strike some as surprising advice, since non-hockey fans  may be puzzled that an NHL All-Star game even exists.  Actually, it practically didn’t last year, when the NHL made a boneheaded decision and scheduled the festivities (the first since 2004) on a late Wednesday evening, meaning West Coasters had to either Tivo the game and sneak in a viewing before an […]

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Lakers 91, Spurs 103: Letting a nine point halftime lead go to waste was an insult to injury for the ailing Lake Show. Though they let this one get away, the Purple and Gold can’t realistically expect to beat the defending champs at home without their […]

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