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 SI.com - Writers - Grant Wahl: Nobody has done more to make his team a winner than Tyler Hansbrough - Wednesday March 5, 2008 12:45PM
On the office desk of his Chapel Hill home, next to the portraits of his wife and children, North Carolina coach Roy Williams keeps a framed 8-by-10 picture of a young man drenched in his own blood. No, Ol' Roy doesn't harbor a soft spot for slasher films. But he does for Tar Heels junior forward Tyler Hansbrough, and to Williams the photograph -- taken a half hour after Duke's Gerald ... [link]

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Michael Beasley Snubbed by Sports Illustrated
Published 3/5/2008 by TB <info@bringonthecats.com> at Bring On The Cats: Front Page Posts
... Your 2007-08 "Player of the Year" for that venerable magazine, Sports Illustrated, is North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough.  More later, but let's just say that the railroading has begun. ...

More ACC Slobber-Knocking, Yet Again
Published 3/5/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... I feel like I need to preface this by saying that I like reading Grant Wahl in SI, more often than not, because I just cannot conceive how any publication right now can decide that UNC’s Tyler Hansbrough is really college basketball’s player of the year — not with Michael Beasley around. The ACC isn’t even particularly good this year; it’s Duke and UNC, mostly, and not only are the Pac-10 and Big East more competitive, but the Atlantic-10 may be rivaling it as a conference right now. ...

The Morning Tailgate
Published 3/6/2008 at STLSportsMag
...  just kind of hanging around out there.  [Deadspin] Even though he's not a native St. Louisan, I like to think of Tyler Hansbrough as a local boy since, you know, he should have gone to Mizzou.  Anyway, he won Sports Illustrated's Player of the Year .  [SI]

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