sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/20/2008
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Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here . Remember when the New England Patriots were lauded as a true team for taking the field as a group before winning the 2002 ...
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/19/2008
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Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman
of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of...
the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here . Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock was sitting in the stands of Joe Louis ...
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Kostya Kennedy picks Nicklas Lidstrom for Sportsman of ...
newengland.comcastsportsnet.com - 11/24/2008
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SI's Ian Thomsen is on a campaign for
the 2008 Celtics to win the Sportsman of the...
Year. There are lots of great individual performances, but the best team of the year deserves to be in the conversation based on the miracles of ubuntu, team defense, and meshing of 3 all-star talents.
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Ubuntu Should Put Celtics as Top 2008 Story
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 11/20/2008
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman
of the Year on Dec. 2. Here's one of...
the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. For more essays, click here . I realize it's presumptuous, because the sport I cover is football, and I've ...
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Peter King picks Kurt Warner for Sportsman of the Year ...
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These Sportsmen Ain’t S#!t #1: Tiger Woods, The Boston Celtics, Central Washington Softball, Bernard Hopkins, and Nnamdi Asomugha
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... Ian Thomsen’s case: “The 2007-08 Celtics are my Sportsmen of the Year because they embraced the least respected and most valuable quality of NBA millionaires: humility. Each sought to play not for himself but for the team. This has become such an empty cliché in pro sports that it needs repeating — Garnett, Pierce and Allen each pursued an agenda that reduced their individual stats on the faith that it would help the team. The scoring numbers of each star plummeted with no guarantee that they would win. They had no reason to believe ...
Ubuntu Should Put Celtics as Top 2008 Story
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... Ian Thomsen of Sports Illustrated (SI) is on a campaign for the Celtics 2008 “world championship” effort to earn the Sportsman of the Year (SOY) award. In the hype leading up to the SOY selection, SI writers are touting the efforts of the teams and individuals in about every sport imaginable, and Thomsen, a Boston area resident, chose the Celtics. ...
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findingdulcinea.com 12/4/2008 — Today, Sports Illustrated named its 2008 Sportsman of the Year. Practically everyone already knew who it would be: swimmer Michael Phelps, the Beijing Olympics superstar who at the young age of 23 is already one of the greatest athletes of all time.
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danshanoff.com 12/3/2008 — Unsurprisingly, Michael Phelps is SI's Sportsman of the Year . He should be everyone's Sportsman of the Year. He is arguably Sportsman of the Decade and, if you believed me back during the Games, he is the Greatest. Sportsman. Ever. But he is NOT the ...
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onfrozenblog.com 12/6/2008 — S.L. Price of Sports Illustrated had nominated Alex Ovechkin as SI's Sportsman of the Year; as most would expect, Michael Phelps was announced this week as the 2008 winner. Regardless, Price's justification for nominating Ovechkin is a terrific endorsement of the Capitals' star:
Russel, Cousy, Havlicek: Best "Big 3" Ever —
Bleacher Report - NBA 11/20/2008
Here it is guys. All of this "Big Three" talk in Boston got me thinking. I believe these are the best "Big Three's" in the history of the league.
I hope I didn't leave any obvious teams out. Please leave a comment if you think I am missing someone ...
Russell, Cousy, Havlicek: Best "Big 3" Ever —
Bleacher Report - NBA 11/20/2008
Here it is guys. All of this "Big Three" talk in Boston got me thinking. I believe these are the best "Big Three's" in the history of the league.
I hope I didn't leave any obvious teams out. Please leave a comment if you think I am missing someone ...
SORE LOSER KNICKS MUST WIN IN BOSTON —
NY Post: Sports 11/21/2008
NOW that Quentin Richardson and Zach Randolph are yapping again about the world-champion Celtics, it is time the Knicks' two tough talkers put up or shut up for the rematch Dec. 21 at the new Boston Garden. Richardson and Randolph have again...
