Zsawda's Blog – August 2014 Archive (5)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WRDB) – Southeastern Conference basketball grabbed the microphone Monday before handing it back to football for the next 6 ½ months. (The state of Kentucky is excluded from those restrictions).The 14 league coaches are appeared on the league’s annual summer teleconference. I predict they'll invest much of the hour and 40 minutes talking about why SEC basketball deserves more love

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"As I said in the Frieri matter, words are words," A's third baseman Josh Donaldson said. "You have to go out there and prove something. Every day."

Ah, the Frieri matter. That would be Ernesto Frieri, who often pitches the ninth inning for the Los Angeles Angels. He'd suggested to reporters Sunday, even as the A's were disentangling themselves from Manny Machado's psychedelic weekend, that the A's were capable, sure, but also somewhat, ohhhh, let's say fortunate. And no matter how…

“We’re looking forward to next year,” said Marleau at the NHL Awards on Monday. “It’s going to suck having to go through all the 82 games to get back into the playoffs to get to that point to actually do something about it.”

Asked if he and Thornton expected to be back, Marleau said: “Yeah. As of right now, yeah.”

General manager Doug Wilson has used the word “rebuild” since the Sharks became the fourth team in NHL history to blow a 3-0 lead and lose a best-of-7 series, falling to…

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The Heat had suffered serious mid-series injuries, faced elimination games on the road, navigated dangerous squabbles between LeBron James and Dwyane Wade and overcome home-court disadvantage. Last season they trailed three different times during the NBA Finals and still won …

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