My Cleveland Cavaliers open up the second round of the 2010 NBA Playoffs tonight in Cleveland against the Boston Celtics. The big news, of course, other than LeBron James becoming the 10th player in history to win the MVP award two times in a row, is James’ elbow, which started giving him trouble at the …
My daughter’s basketball practice was canceled this evening so we drove over to the local park to shoot some hoops so she could still get some “practice” in. After some warm-ups and basic practice, the three of us decided to play H-O-R-S-E. Needless to say with my daughter being relatively new to basketball, she quickly …
I’ve been skydiving (twice!). I’ve evacuated from a jet (on the tarmac) and gone down the emergency slides during a passenger-initiated evacuation (back in 2003 when someone thought there was an engine fire). I’ve been to a GWAR concert. All of that pales in comparison with what I had to do today: coach a bunch …
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No April foolin’ here … my Dayton Flyers beat the North Carolina Tarheels 79-68 in the NIT Championship game at Madison Square Garden. Congratulations to the 2010 NIT champs! Dayton might also have won the last NIT championship, based on rumors that the NCAA will be expanding their tournament to 96 teams next year (effectively …
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My Dayton Flyers are heading to New York for the NIT Final Four after beating #1 seed Illinois! This is the first time UD has made it to the semi-finals of the National Invitational Tournament since 1968 when they won it all. They looked great against the Cincinnati Bearcats on Monday night (a victory which …
My hometown of Cleveland, OH is finally a winner … a recent Forbes article named it the number one most miserable city, edging out last year’s reining champion, Stockton, CA. Hoping to continue Cleveland’s championship year in 2010, the Cavaliers traded local favorite Zydrunas Ilgauskas (who’s spent his entire 12-year career with the Cavs) to …
Holy cow … the Cleveland Cavaliers have acquired Shaquille O’Neal from the Phoenix Suns for Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic! Could that be the final part of the equation that will resolve into an NBA championship for the Cavs next year? I hope so!
😡 Arrrrgh!
With the Cleveland Cavaliers kicking off the next round of the NBA playoffs against the Atlanta Hawks tonight, I got an e-mail from my sister with a link to this article on MSNBC. Bob Madden sighs. He wants to believe. Oh, does he want to believe — to believe deep inside his body where feelings …