Tag: Basketball
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Falling for the bait of commercialisation in sport
A study of Wexford hurling from perhaps an obscure angle reveals that folk in the Model County have never been afraid to go their own way about things. For better or worse. For example, to the best of my recollection, they were the first county this writer can recall appointing an outside manager when they…
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Sometimes it is as simple as it looks
Shai Gilgouse-Alexander was recently voted the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the NBA for 2024/’25 season. Before said campaign had even tipped off, his coach at the Oklahoma City Thunder, Mark Dagenhault, was the defending holder of the equivalent gong among coaches. With the duo just after masterminding and conducting the Thunder’s annexation of a…
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The curiosities of NBA discipline
Did you ever notice yourself changing and not be able to quite figure out why? For example, when I was younger, the mere smell of things like coleslaw, potato salad or beetroot would have me dry reaching in seconds. Whereas now, any of the above would happily be tore into. With the only slight proviso…
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American Contradictions
Temetrius Jamel ‘Ja’ Morant. If you’re not an aficionado of NBA Basketball, you may not have heard of him, and, if you have, it might not have been in the best of contexts. The Memphis Grizzlies point guard, for those no au fait with the fast-paced, five-a-side action, think midfielder in GAA or soccer or…
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Fans make GAA what it is – give them their say
Typical of a lot of what’s produced on this site, this offering is going to begin pointed in one direction and conclude veering off in a completely different one. Now read on… Let’s begin by dealing with what is – from a personal perspective – the ugly business on this particular ramble. Namely, that nearly…
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When two sporting worlds collide
A piece like this generally appears in this space around this time every year. Just as the seasons change in farming from the harvest to the plough and sower as the cycle begins again. Flat racing blessedly gives way to the proper stuff (jumps), soccer and rugby make their grand entrances and, of most relevance…
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Boylan Talks Sport Brain Fitness Test – No. 29
Sure it wouldn’t be the Christmas if I didn’t put some bit of a test of all your sporting knowledge.
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Harden in a hoop after boss bust-up
James Harden, who some, with justification, would consider to be of equal status to LeBron James and Stephen Curry within the NBA, has found himself in hot soup with the Association’s Brains Trust after articulating his anger about Philadelphia 76ers top cat Daryl Morey abundently clear at a promotional event in China. The player, 34,…
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Underage proposals are well intentioned but pointed in the wrong direction
Back in the day when lads of my own age were involved in GAA at Juvenile level – and for decades before that probably – it wasn’t uncommon for a mentor from one of the competing teams to step in as referee. As when anybody takes up the whistle they are of course admired and…
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Selections for Gowran Park – Apr. 18th 2023
4.03: SHADOWED (HUGH HORGAN (7)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.38: NARLITA – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/HARRY ROGERS) 5.13: GRECIAN SLIPPER (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.45: ASTROPHYSICIST – EW – (BILLY LEE/JAMES NASH) 6.15: ASTAR (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.45: GOLDENSTATEWARRIOR (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 7.15: PARTY CENTRAL (JACK KEARNEY (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT)