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MORNING ROUNDUP - 5/02/08
MORNING ROUNDUP - 5/02/08
  The daily spin through the day’s top stories - got something we should cover? Email us at thirtyfiveseconds[at]yahoo[dot]com.   Absolute badass. THE STORY EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Excuses, Explanations, and Honest-to-God Reasons When Tennessee’s Chris Lofton struggled early this season even against cupcake opponents , some ...
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Chris Lofton is tough as they come
The Dagger — ... What might be even more suprising, as Thirty Five Seconds notes, is that no one -- not Bruce Pearl, not nefarious message board posters -- decided to trot this out early in the season as Lofton struggled to get back to 100 percent. That a secret like this can be effectively kept not only restores my faith in doctor-patient confidentiality laws, it reassures me that no one reading this will ever find out about my crippling bout with jaundice. ...

Eli Holman speaks, sort of
Inside the Hall | An Indiana Hoosiers basketball blog — ... Pretty milquetoast stuff. And we still have absolutely no idea what got Eli so riled up in the first place. Thirty Five Seconds has a pretty decent hypothesis — that Crean maybe, just maybe, questioned Holman’s manhood for abandoning the program in its hour of need — but since that hypothesis is untestable, best to leave it alone. Who knows, right? ...

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