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theondeckcircle.net - 26 hours ago
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Here’s a tasty teaser: “It is easy to
get overexcited, as Raptor fans, about Chris Bosh’s performance
through the first 12 games. There are reasons to be guarded, to be pessimistic, or to deem his success suspect thus far. At the same time, it’s easy, as Raptor fans, to let his ...
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Raptors Republic Article – Will Bosh’s Hot Start Continue
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theondeckcircle.net - 5 days ago
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Since I last wrote, the Leafs have railed
off three straight losses. I’m not sure why I’m
surprised; perhaps, my concluding paragraphs last Tuesday were too optimistic, too hope-inspiring, effectively turning on the Blue-blinders that we as Leaf fans all too often adorn. Upon ...
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18/82 of What We’ll Know: Shifting the November Focus, ...
theondeckcircle.net - 11 days ago
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Idle hands are the devil’s playground, so they
say. I guess, then, it’s good that I’ve been
a little too busy (and under the weather) to write much in the way of coherent sports analysis the past few weeks. I say that, of course, because if I had wrote the latest Leafs’ update at the ...
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15/82 of What We’ll Know: 28th With a Bullet
theondeckcircle.net - 12 days ago
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With autumn disappearing, the world now begins to
fade from view. The days have grown shorter and
“right now” creeps into our lives more quickly than we might wish. The world is dying again, at least for the next five months. But there is hope even as darkness falls earlier and earlier. For ...
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NBA Roundup: The Dark Side Of The Moon
theondeckcircle.net - 29 days ago
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This article has been submitted by the debuting
Matt Rego…I didn’t have time to set him up
as an author so for today he appears to be me. I wish! Welcome, Regg Ross. We are just about three weeks into the season and our most beloved, and also most hated, NHL hockey franchise are ...
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Toronto Maple Leafs Aren’t as Bad as You Think
theondeckcircle.net - 29 days ago
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T-Smith is back at it at Hoops Addict
with some reflections on the recent Isiah Thomas/Magic Johnson
literary-cum-you-hurt-my-feelings spat. Thankfully, he takes a greater focus on Thomas’ place in history and how the current perception of him skews what should have surely been a great ...
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Hoops Addict Article – Perception is Reality with Isiah ...
theondeckcircle.net - 10/21/2009
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I finally got back on track over at
Raptors Republic. While comparing Jay Triano to Sam Mitchell
isn’t necessarily a fair exercise, I think it’s clear that the man at the helm is the reason for a good deal of the optimism surrounding the Raptors right now. Through his understanding ...
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Raptors Republic Article – Triano’s Basketball IQ a ...
theondeckcircle.net - 10/20/2009
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With the NBA season a mere two weeks
away, the time has arrived to yet again break
out a fresh batch of predictions, forecasts, and best-guesses. Having already covered the Absurd side of the preview , today The On Deck Circle will dive into the second half of our forecast, as known as the ...
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The On Deck Circle NBA Preview: Daniel Day-Lewis Edition
theondeckcircle.net - 10/19/2009
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With the NBA season a mere two weeks
away, the time has arrived to yet again break
out a fresh batch of predictions, forecasts, and best-guesses. Some of these season previews will undoubtedly offer up a list of banal platitudes and obvious observations (“The Lakers will be really good!” “The ...
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The On Deck Circle NBA Preview: Galifianakis Edition
theondeckcircle.net - 10/16/2009
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Trev just laid down a phenomenal article over
at Hoops Addict, exploring how new star acquisition Hedo
Trukogly represents the city of Toronto. Check it out, but here’s a telling glimpse: “Turkoglu signing with the Raptors this summer did not just underline the city’s unique ...
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Hoops Addict Article – Turkoglu Represents Toronto
theondeckcircle.net - 10/16/2009
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Toronto Maple Leafs and the Goaltending Carousel The
Leafs’ goaltending situation is getting ridiculous, already. Obviously, nobody
is happy with Vesa Toskala between the pipes. This has been the case all offseason as people clamored for Jonas Gustafsson and Joey MacDonald to be the team’s ...
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Five for Fighting: Leafs Goaltending, Leafs Youngsters, ...
theondeckcircle.net - 10/15/2009
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It’s the NBA season…it means I’ll eventually be
writing again (probably), and Trev is back at his
Hoops Addict gig. This time, he’s previewing the Los Angeles Lakers for this year and…well, let’s just say things are certainly going to be dramatic in LaLa ...
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Hoops Addict Article – Los Angeles Lakers Season Preview
theondeckcircle.net - 10/2/2009
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This title, which will be a running one
for Leafs coverage here, assumes that knowledge is evenly
distributed across 82 regular season games. This is not reality, of course, as we know plenty from previous seasons, the offseason, the preseason, and other “hockey insider” cues. Still, there are ...
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1/82: What We Know About the Leafs
theondeckcircle.net - 10/1/2009
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Most Blue jay fans probably don’t realize that
the team is still playing right now. For those
that do, they would have witnessed (or at least known about) two phenomenal starts from Roy Halladay down the stretch. On September 25, in what may be his last start at Rogers’ Center as a Jay, ...
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Is Roy Halladay the 2009 Cy Young Winner?
theondeckcircle.net - 9/30/2009
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I couldn’t decide on an article topic today,
so I’m rolling with five shorter ones in one
(what a deal!). I could see this becoming a more common theme here as I struggle for writing time at work, and this style is invariably easier to chip away at. Name suggestions for this style of article ...
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1st and Five: Quinn v. Anderson, TO v. Media, ...
