Tag Archive | "Larry Bird"

Waiting for Larry

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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Waiting for Larry

White NBA fans yearn for the salad days of the Bird era, when being slow and looking really bad in shorts didn’t matter. And nowhere is this longing more evident than in each year’s draft.

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The Upside of Ugly

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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The Upside of Ugly

There are two kinds of grotesque athletes: the good ugly, who help you win by frightening and distracting teams for a game or two a year, and the bad ugly, who offend God every day of the week. Here, a scorecard.

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