sports.yahoo.com - 9/16/2008
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I was going to let this unusual news intentionally slip past my blog radar — you know, save new Minnesota center Jason Collins anymore embarrassment — but then I realized just how little was going on, and, more importantly, just how much my dad would enjoy it. So ... sorry, Jason ...
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Tuesday Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... genuinely interesting ideas about how to fix that. One is to make it so investment banks can not go public. Assessing the worst starters in the NBA. Sebastian Telfair, Tim Thomas, Ben Wallace, and Jamaal Tinsley get in the conversation, and in a response we hear about Quentin Richardson and Jeff Green. The main thing not to do is choke. If you don't believe me, take David Halberstam's word for it. The other thing not to do? Be in a freak golf cart accident. Channing Frye, recovering ...
Killer Backswing Could Kill Your Hearing
The Sporting Blog —
Golf isn't the most extreme athletic endeavor; they don't ask you whether you hit the links when you are filling out life insurance applications, for example. It's a pretty safe sport, so long as you don't break your arm in a cart accident, tear up your knee with overexertion or get bopped on the head by an errant tee shot. ...
Top Ten Bizarre Basketball Injuries
Pete Marasmitch - a Toronto Raptors blog —
... on his leg. This was no ordinary infection, however.
Gooden, who at first thought he was suffering from spider bites, was laid low by a virulent staph bacteria. He received antibiotics through an intravenous drip for 72 hours while doctors repeatedly drained his leg. “People were trying to make fun, like it was nothing,” Gooden said to reporters. “That was serious.”
7. Jason Collins, golf cart rollover — from BDL:
“Collins was injured in what a team spokesman ...
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