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Wednesday Attendance Wrap-Up
Here's another resolution I could have thrown on the pile from the other day: Putting a weekly wrap-up of the league's attendance figures on the site. In keeping with my previous goal of toning down the bitterness, I'll just present the numbers and let you interpret them how you will. First, ...
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 Funding Getting Tight
Funding Getting Tight
The big story today – well, the big story after the Midwest-style snowstorms we’ve endured for the past two weeks – is Governor Christine Gregoire’s decision to parrot the budget cuts her opponent, Dino Rossi, advocated during the recent ...
Tom Ward Joins the Parade
The Thundercats' ownership apparently shares the same broker, as Tom Ward has joined Aubrey McClendon in off-loading a boatload of shares of his company's stocks . From the Associated Press: "Tom Ward, the chief executive officer of SandRidge Energy Inc., has sold 8.9 million shares of his ...
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Ask a group of Sonic fans what was the best year in the team’s history, and you’ll receive a number of answers, depending upon the generation of the respondent. Ask that same group the worst year in team history, though, and you’ll receive one answer: 2008. And so, dear readers, we are left to ...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Supersonics fans! What are your New Year Resolutions this year? Share them in the comments section.
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ColecoVision!
A Christmas Letter to Santa OK, not basketball related (unless you're talking about " One-on-One ") but it's something I made for Christmas, and wanted to share it with you, my Supersonic lovin' internet family. Happy Holidays! NOTE: this video is totally NSFW---Swear words ahoy!
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Whoa, it's Wilt!
41 years ago this week: Nice "D" Snyder! I don't know if it's the sadness of our first Christmas without the Sonics (sniff-sniff), or maybe all this talk about about our man Bob Blackburn , but it seems everyone is getting nostalgic about the Sonics. Check out the great story at the Tribune ...
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Blackburn
A sad piece of news to report from the Seattle Times this morning , where Steve Kelley reports that Bob Blackburn, the original Sonic broadcaster, is in the hospital after suffering a head injury in a fall. Back in October, we ran our final SuperSonicSoul Hall of Fame article, and it ...
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 Sonics fans on The Simpsons Writing Staff?
Sonics fans on The Simpsons Writing Staff?
Claymate of Bend It Like Bennett does a nice Ebert-style writeup on the latest episode of The Simpsons, which has an eerily familiar story. Definitely a must-read. I stopped watching new Simpsons episodes years ago. The Montgomery Burns-Clay ...
The Thunder Rolls (Mostly Downhill)
You know, I’ve heard the Thunder are pretty bad this year … How bad are they? The Thunder are so bad … - when Clay Bennett fired PJ Carlesimo three weeks ago, PJ thanked him. - Oklahoma State has scheduled them for a non-conference game. - Vegas is considering taking them off the books for ...
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Passing the Buck
"Just because the access now, there's so much media availability and everything else. There's just so many bloggers; everybody's got an opinion." -Kevin McHale, explaining to Don Seeholzer of the Pioneer Press why coaches and GMs are falling so quickly this season. Personally, I blame ...
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Would You Rather
Here's an interesting twist on the classic drinking game we all played at some time in our lives. Would you rather ... Have the Sonics, but with the Thunder's current roster and record intact or Have no NBA team at all? It's not so easy, is it? Bear in mind that the last time Oklahoma City won ...
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Better Data
When I started talking about NBA attendance a month ago, I received some criticism for how I presented the information. Specifically, the critics pointed out that I was using partial results for 2008-09 and comparing them to complete results from last year. You know what? The critics were ...
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Stern Speaks
Bill Simmons' most recent podcast on ESPN contains an interview with Seattle's favorite commissioner, David Stern, and while Stern danced around questions with the grace of Fred Astaire, he did provide listeners with some interesting pieces of information. None greater than his response to ...
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 Bizarro World
Bizarro World
I've just finished a book about the Congo ( In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz ; worth checking out, although not as good as King Leopold's Ghost ), and, among other topics, it covers the disparity between the wealthy friends of Mobutu and the rest of ...