Articles by Alan Draper (245814)
Ginobili voted as one of the best floppers
In a player’s survey conducted by Sports Illustrated, 152 NBA players feel San Antonio Spurs’ Manu Ginobili is one of…
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SWMMA Presents “Battle at the Buffalo”
Just like nearly every fight promotion company in the world, Southwest MMA’s (SWMMA) inaugural show encountered more than a few…
Read more Know Your Baseball Enemy: Kentucky Wildcats
The Kentucky Wildcats (15-11, 2-4) travel to Columbia, S.C to take on the University of South Carolina Gamecocks (19-5, 4-2…
Read more News & Notes at the Start of the 2011 Season
> ESPN.com reported today that the San Francisco Giants and second baseman Freddy Sanchez have agreed to a $6 million contract extension…
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Friday Random: Pete Rose’s Idea of April Fools
Yesterday was like a holiday in Cincinnati, because it was Opening Day. Adding to the fun of everything, was Ramon…
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Celtics @ Spurs G74 GreenLights
Although the Celtics defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves last Sunday, they nearly blew a huge lead in doing so. And despite…
Read more San Antonio Spurs vs. Houston Rockets Gameday Q&A
The San Antonio Spurs (57-18) will travel up I-10 to take on the Houston Rockets (39-36) tonight in a Texas-sized…
Read more Opening Day Angels Thumbs UP & Thumbs DOWN
By Jeff Flinn – AngelsWin.com Contributor Thumbs UP Weaver was his usual dominant self. I’m glad the Halos got just…
Read more How we see it goin’ down: C’s – Hawks
Tip: 8:00pm Court: Phillips Arena Watch it: CSN/ESPN Hear it: WEEI Referees: Monty McCutchen, Tony Brown, Jason Phillips Get…
Read more McNabb to return to Comcast SportsNet as part of NCAA men’s basketball championship coverage
Washington Redskins quarterback and former college hoops player Donovan McNabb will return to Comcast SportsNet to contribute to its coverage of…
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Whatever is starting is starting today
I’ve written more than enough about the 2011 season in the past ten days, so let’s leave it at this:…
Read more 2011 NFL Draft Scouting Report: Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn is still a very young player at the tender age of 20 and it showed last offseason when…
Read more Spurs-Celtics Player Analysis: Jefferson shows positive signs in loss
On Thursday morning before the San Antonio Spurs 107-97 loss to the Boston Celtics, I wrote a piece titled “Who…
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Eye on the enemy, featuring a bad nickname
Its time to start focusing on the playoffs and our potential roadblocks to Banner 18. Every day we'll bring you…
Read more Cally: Unacceptable Effort & Execution
After last night’s embarrassing effort against the Islanders Ryan Callahan could only muster this to Larry Brooks of the New…
Read more Get Your Sweatpants Out, Cheerleader Tryouts Are This Weekend
It’s that time of year, ladies and creepers, where we all get our dirtiest pair of sweatpants out of the…
Read more Shawn Thornton wears visor.. APRIL FOOLS! Wait, what?
Thanks to an unfortunate incident, the third greatest NHL player of all time got a nasty cut over his right…
Read more TheNYRBlog Fantasy Hockey Championship Standing (4/1/11)
For those of you not familiar with the Yahoo Sports fantasy rotisserie scoring system click here. For more on TheNYRBlog…
Read more Enemy Chatter: Spurs need a guy who won’t take Celtics crap
I often wonder what opposing teams, their beat reporters and bloggers are saying about the Celtics after playing the Celtics….
Read more Can’t Hang Opening Day Loss Solely on Axford
It’s easy to fault John Axford for blowing what probably should have been an Opening Day win for the Brewers,…
Read more The Buffalo Sabres’ Picket Fence Defense: The 2011 Achilles Heel
The Buffalo Sabres’ biggest weakness is right in their own front yard. Back on March 18th, I started talking playoff hockey…
Read more Spurs lose fifth straight, season series to Celtics
After dropping games to teams like the Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, Charlotte Bobcats and Indiana Pacers as of late, the…
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Mini Pony of the Day 4-1-11
Thanks to Mike for this. I am down with any picture of mini ponies just sprinting. Always a blast to…
Read more Paw Prints – The Daily UConn Roundup – 4/1
Paw Prints is our daily look at the happenings for the UConn Huskies football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams…
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