sportingnews.com - 1/6/2009
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Not sure why I'm so incensed about All-Star Weekend already, but about this year's dunk contest: This will be the worst since the infamous "wheel of fortune" contest of 2002 .
First, I hate the field. Dwight Howard's sticker dunk was classic, and he would've changed history with a ...
nba.fanhouse.com - 1/7/2009
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by Tom Ziller On Tuesday, Shoals of The
Sporting Blog pointed out the lack of imagination used...
in selecting this year's corps of NBA Dunk Contest competitors. Three of the four contestants have competed before, two of them (Dwight Howard, Nate ...
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Who Should Be in the Dunk Contest?
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blacksportsonline.com - 12/31/2008
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Tuesday Dumpage
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... favorite in the Big Ten next year, steamroll to another BCS game and lose. AGAIN. Texas will be loaded again and the Big 12 South is gonna lose a lot of big time players. Expect UT and Fugly McCoy to be in the thick of the BCS title hunt. At least we get to see his lady on TV some more… With that being said, it’s clear after last night’s game that Texas has no business being in the conversation for #1 this year
Are we in for another crappy dunk contest? (Sporting Blog)
Interesting look at some people to watch in the world ...
The 10-man rotation, starring Kobe and Shaq, together again
Ball Don't Lie —
... Dwight Howard watches wrestling, signals heckling Raps fans to, you know, this. PG: Cuzoogle. Meet Bargs, the Raptors new and improved go-to-guy. 6th: Both Teams Played Hard. And another brilliant Photoshop: Johnny Walker, Antoine Walker-ized. 7th: TalkHoops. "Common sense just doesn't add up to the solution of bringing Marbury to the Celtics." 8th: TSB. Shoals: "This will be the worst [Dunk Contest] since the infamous 'wheel of fortune' [in] ...
Who Should Be in the Dunk Contest?
FanHouse —
... On Tuesday, Shoals of The Sporting Blog pointed out the lack of imagination used in selecting this year's corps of NBA Dunk Contest competitors. Three of the four contestants have competed before, two of them (Dwight Howard, Nate Robinson) previous winners and the third (Rudy Gay) so boring in his 2007-08 effort that his overall rep has suffered. The fourth candidate will be one of three rookies, none of which carry much hope for awe. ...
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