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If You Want To Come Up With Reasons Why the Lakers Aren’t the Front-Runner Right Now, You Have To Get Creative. Really, Really, Really Creative.
If You Want To Come Up With Reasons Why the Lakers Aren’t the Front-Runner Right Now, You Have To Get Creative. Really, Really, Really Creative.
It’s been mentioned once or twice that the NBA West is pretty good this year. All nine potential playoff teams have at least some chance to win the whole thing, but almost all of them have some flaw that makes their defeat possible, even in the first round. San Antonio? Too old. New Orleans? [...]
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Cowbell. Lots and lots of cowbell.
Lakers Blog — ... to steel up his squad . Derek Fisher knows how PJ works, and doesn't question the track record . Maybe it would help for the Lakers to get out and turn themselves into some sort of street fighting gang. Just not this kind . And even stylized violence is probably not a safe means of expression for Ron Artest, who is slightly lighter in the wallet today after some provocative words to the press. Though if Kobe does by chance find himself in harm's way, perhaps he should avoid these 13 players .

Taking up for Lebron James, because someone has to
Uwe Blog — ... Watching hours and hours of NBA basketball the last two months, I realized one thing: Lebron James is underrated. How, you may ask, is one of the best, most heralded phenoms in the history of sports underrated. The reason: seemingly, everyone is in love with Kobe Bryant (this son of a bitch at Yahoo! wrote a column today basically shitting on my entire premise, but whatever). You can not watch a broadcast, sports report, radio show or even some newspaper articles and blog posts (whether the Lakers are involved or not) without ...

Blog-O-Rama: Aussie Cricketer Assaults Streaker
SPORTSbyBROOKS — ... CONSTRUDA hopes that Brett Favre could take Chris Berman& John Madden along into retirement . • AWFUL ANNOUNCING broadcasts one local sportscaster who’s annoyed by ESPN’s relentless requests for footage . • SIMON ON SPORTS wants you to guess which airport would have a NASCAR shop and a Stock Car Cafe. • THE GHOSTS OF WAYNE FONTES is spooked by the sad state of the Detroit Lions . • SPORTS HUB LA believes the only way you can stop the Lake Show is to go Tonya Harding on Kobe’s pinkie .

I'm Everywhere, except on my site
Truth in a Bullet Fedora — ... don't have a whole lot of thoughts worth writing that don't fit on SportsHub, FD, or MVN, and the thought of putting the energy back into writing stuff good enough to get on TrueHoop so that I could build up enough of an audience to allow my random thoughts to be seen is a sketchy one. If you're reading this, you probably know me personally. However, it's only takes about five minutes to put up links to the last things I've written, so I'll do that. New FreeDarko New SportsHub It's nice to have a site in your college's colors that people come to to ...

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