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Relatively Encouraging Start for the Owls
I know the baseball season just ended, but it’s college hoops already (I guess World Series trips don’t give us nearly as much of a “break,” huh?). Everything is different under Dunphy than it was under Chaney. Under Chaney, the … Continue reading
Tuesday’s Top Twelve – Best Matchup/Potential Matchups of the Weekend
The best sports weekend of the year–hands down–begins in earnest in less than 48 hours. Yes, I am like little-kid-on-Christmas excited. No, I’m not embarrassed by it. Looking over the brackets, there are a bunch of first-round matchups and potential … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009 ncaa tournament, arizona st., boston college, butler, clemson, dayton, florida st., kansas, lsu, michigan st., north carolina, north dakota st., oklahoma, oklahoma st., pittsburgh, syracuse, temple, tennessee, ucla, usc, vcu, west virginia, xavier
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Getting Hot at the Right Time?
After an up-and-down non-conference season, the Temple Owls have started the Atlantic 10 season 3-1. They beat a mediocre LaSalle team and then lost at UMass, but the last two games, they have registered impressive 25- and 27-point home victories … Continue reading
College Basketball Preview: The Contenders
[DISCLAIMER: most of this was written before the preseason tournaments, so I apologize if some new developments were not addressed. Oh, and one of these teams is written facetiously–see if you can figure out which one.] I wrote a column … Continue reading
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Tagged duke, gonzaga, louisville, notre dame, oklahoma, pittsburgh, temple, tennessee, ucla, uconn, unc
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First-Round Viewing Guide (In The Philly Market) – Thursday
Even though CBS now allows viewers to watch every game of the tournament on-line, many of us don’t have an internet connection fast enough to stream games, nor one of those fancy TV’s that you can view your computer screen … Continue reading
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Tagged arizona, chase budinger, dionte christmas, jerryd bayless, kansas st., mark tyndale, michael beasley, michigan st., oj mayo, temple, usc, west virginia
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Tell Me I’m Crazy…
In the spirit of full disclosure, I am currently wearing my “Wild Cherry” t-shirt–the gift to all Temple basketball season ticket holders one year in the mid-90’s. But, tell me I’m crazy thinking that the Owls have a real chance … Continue reading
Yet Another Pet Peeve
Unless you are someone who has ever talked to me for more than 30 seconds, you probably don’t know that I can be a relatively opinionated individual. And many of these opinions are about things that really bother me–pet peeves, if … Continue reading
Puerto Rico Bound
As the 2007-08 season dawns on the Temple Owls, there are some really interesting subplots to pay attention to as the season starts to get going: 1). Though the Legend is gone (probably on the golf course or at the … Continue reading
