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Daniel O'Boyle | Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Three Sports Authority columns. Three Observer Sports Writers. Two references to the Program of Liberal Studies. One slippery slope fallacy. One invocation of Aristotle’s Golden Mean. 2,425 words. 20 em dashes. Some good ideas, but not one mention of the real problem. What just happened? Last week, this column was the scene of a heated
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, February 21, 2018
During the past week, NBA commissioner Adam Silver toyed with the idea of re-inventing the NBA’s playoff system. The proposal’s central tennent is taking away seeding based on conference — where the teams with the first through eighth ranked records make the playoffs from each conference — to a system where the teams with the
Michael Ivey | Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Remember about a week ago, when the Cleveland Cavaliers were 6-13 in their last 19 games dating back to Christmas Day, the players were questioning the legitimacy of a Kevin Love sickness and everyone in the locker room hated each other? Man, those were the days. Just one day after a thrilling win over the
Tobias Hoonhout | Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Poor Isaiah Thomas. For a season, it looked like he might have finally overcome the host of doubters who have plagued the 5-foot-9 point guard since the beginning. The story seems like it was meant to be. First, it was being named after Hall-of-Fame point guard Isiah Thomas when the Pistons won the 1989 NBA
Marek Mazurek | Friday, January 26, 2018
As a journalist, I love to know stuff as soon as possible. I want to know as soon as my favorite teams hire coaches, sign players or make any decisions. And it irks me when teams and other institutions delay the release of information, especially when speculation flies about hirings and firings. Organizations being up
Michael Ivey | Wednesday, January 24, 2018
It hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavaliers have a record of 3-8 since their Christmas Day defeat to the Golden State Warriors and have fallen to third in the Eastern Conference behind the Boston Celtics and the Toronto Raptors. Last Saturday, the Cavaliers were defeated 148-124 at home
Tobias Hoonhout | Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Although my colleague Mia Berry made some good points about the unbalance in the NBA in her column yesterday, the fact of the matter is that the Western Conference, with potentially 10 teams fighting for the final five playoff spots, remains a dogfight for who will be playing besides the Spurs, Rockets and Warriors come
Michael Ivey | Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Golden State Warriors remain the standard in the NBA. They have made the last three NBA Finals, won two of them, and are the favorite to repeat as champions this upcoming season. But their road through the Western Conference might have gotten a lot harder. On Saturday, news broke that the Oklahoma City
Daniel O'Boyle | Tuesday, September 19, 2017
On Sept. 18, 2017, the internet changed. Sure, we always knew that any account online may not be who they claim to be behind the screen. But Monday, we had to directly come to terms with the fact that any online account could be Kevin Durant. Monday, we saw Durant refer to himself in the third-person
Joe Everett | Friday, September 8, 2017
This NBA offseason was crazy. Due to Kevin Durant’s joining forces with Golden State last offseason, which subsequently led to the Warriors’ domination of the NBA playoffs and second championship in three years, the other 29 teams scrambled this summer to either position themselves to attempt the toppling of Goliath, or to wait until the