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Gil Won't Return Without Jamison
Published 5/7/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
Gil Won't Return Without Jamison This was supposed to be Gilbert Arenas's last blog of all time , and I was anticipating another heart-felt manifesto on the meaning of life and NBA basketball. Instead, we get equivocation; "I'll give you all a hesitant no, this is not my last blog," he said wrote. And praised be for that. There's a lot in there: his thoughts on the Cleveland series, the comeback, DeShawn Stevenson, his style of basketball, a reader challenge that could result in him doing 300 push-ups, parental aging, the mortality of childhood icons, the pathology of ...

Ryan Zimmerman's Got a Blog
Published 5/8/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... " Bergmann, Robert "Always a Nat" Fick, Felipe Lopez's wife . Ryan Zimmerman would appear somewhere after the clubhouse attendant, the peanut salesman, Teddy Roosevelt and Stan Kasten, and just ahead of the rosin bag. Nice guy, great building block, terrific with the fans, but bad, bad, bad potential blogger. Look, SportsyNet, it's not too late to turn this into the Ryan Zimmerman Blog, by Dmitri Young and Paul " Fan Fighter " Lo Duca. Yesterday we had Gilbert blogging about his knee tattoo and Chris Cooley blogging about his private parts ; if we're ...

Grunfeld Hopes to Keep the Band Together
Published 5/8/2008 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
Filed under: Wizards, Eastern, Washington, DCYesterday in his blog, Gilbert Arenas made it clear that he considered he and teammate Antawn Jamison a package deal: If Antawn is not back, then there's no point in me coming back because he's part of my success, too. When you're doing pick and roll with a player like him, they can't double you, they can't trap you because you have a pick and pop guy who can shoot the three at your four position. My success is because of him too. If he doesn't come back, I'm not coming ...