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The football season, and the school year, has officially begun. This recap is coming to you semi-live from an off-campus house at USC armed with:
-30 USC students
-Seating for 18 USC students
-1 grill
-1 Big-Screen HDTV
-Beer. So much beer.
In short, we were well prepared for this game. The notes:
12:38 PM: The season has kicked off. UVA […]

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For a player as polarizing as Kobe Bryant, the coast has been more quiet than you’d expect regarding his role in the Lakers’ collapse against the Celtics.  Most members of the media and players in the league seem to understand that there wasn’t much he could have done on his own, and […]

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In no particular order, things to watch out for and appreciate during the Los Angeles-San Antonio series:
Who’s Got the Torch?

Since 1999, every NBA finals has featured Shaquille O’Neal or Tim Duncan, with one of them winning each time except for 2004. Shaq got dinged in the first round, perhaps marking the end of not one […]

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First of all: Circumstances scuttled my scheduled recap after Game 2 of the Utah/LA series and for this I apologize greatly, especially because I promised the world a challenge between points by Kobe Bryant vs. ads for shows produced by Ted Turner. The problem? It’s finals week here in scenic Watts (that’s where USC is, […]

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That’s right, it’s the long-awaited matchup of the teams with the two most inappropriate names in all of sport! I was too depressed by the Hawks-Celtics game to keep actual notes on this one, but here are my recap points in no particular order:
I submit Kobe Bryant (obviously) and Deron Williams as the two players […]

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Well, when I published “Mamba Valuable Player, Part 1,” you may have been led to believe that more parts were to follow. Well, here are those more parts. There are three serious candidates. Each of them merits a separate superlative.
Without further ado:
Who Has Been the NBA’s Best Player This Season?
Answer: LeBron James. (Kobe fans: […]

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When I was touring USC last fall, the only other family in our tour group was a local Los Angeles family. My dad and I had exactly one exchange with these people:
Mom of Family: Where are you guys from?
My dad: San Francisco area.
Mom: Well, if you guys are from ‘Frisco, why don’t you just go […]

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So I’m working on a massive treatise about trying to sort out the MVP race this year (Part I here), and it’s a pain in my ass. I’m up all night, spending hours going through game logs, video, and every imaginable kind of statistical information available to come up with some kind of objective way […]

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It’s officially open MVP season. My spiritual take on the issue is on FreeDarko. Here are what I see as the immutable truths of the award:
1. If the vote was held today, Kobe Bryant would, and should, win by a fairly wide margin.
2. The only other real contenders are LeBron James and Chris Paul, although […]

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It’s been mentioned once or twice that the NBA West is pretty good this year. All nine potential playoff teams have at least some chance to win the whole thing, but almost all of them have some flaw that makes their defeat possible, even in the first round.
San Antonio? Too old. New Orleans? […]

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