Tag: Stephen Curry
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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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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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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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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)
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No one man is a team
Maurice Fitzgerald and Peter Canavan gave two of the best individual displays the one seeing eye here ever witnessed in All Ireland football finals. Maurice practically steered Kerry past Mayo, Peter and his colleagues were robbed of at least a second chance by an utterly attrocious decision from a referee who considered himself the greatest…
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Wounded Warriors as Thompson injury jinx strikes again
BASKETBALL: NBA 2020/’21 One of the few morsels of positivity brought about by the global scourge that is COVID-19 has been the spectacle of certain sports taking place in slots that would not usually normally be there. Soccer and rugby going well into the summer months. The G. A. A. Championships and the US Masters…