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The FanHouse - Kansas Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NBA NEW YORK -- It felt like a recruiting trip, the one he never had when he bypassed college for the NBA . Only this process involved the world's most glamorous arena, a 10-story Nike billboard out on Seventh Avenue and a hip-hop mogul like no other, ready to tell LeBron James that New York is a "concrete jungle where dreams are made of ... there's nothing you can't...
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The FanHouse - Georgia Football (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: MLB NEW YORK -- He has found peace to purge his demons, love when all he had was Madonna and madams and, most importantly, truth when his past was so fake and sleazy. No matter what we once thought of Alex Rodriguez , it's difficult to hold a grudge when he has achieved joy and reward the right way. In fact, allow me to propose the ultimate happy ending, something unimaginable...
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The FanHouse - UCLA Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: MLB NEW YORK -- There is something arrogantly American about it, I know. The $210-million Yankees have won a World Series amid a destructive recession, doing it for Boss George Steinbrenner in the first season of their $1.5-billion edifice of excess, where a $275-million lightning rod just happened to overcome a steroids crisis and finally deliver the postseason we've...
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The Good Phight (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
More photos » by Jason DeCrow - AP Badly underdiscussed this season is how awesome Chan Ho Park has been. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) Browse more photos » Tastykake Soft, Hamels Can't Do Game 7 -- FanHouse Jay Mariotti, with the worst thing I've ever read. Gonzo: Some jokes have truth to them No smear campaign too absurd... WHO’S PEDRO’S DADDY? - Philled In Terrific blog post by...
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The FanHouse - Umass Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: MLB PHILADELPHIA -- They have nothing in common but history. Chase Utley is a southern California dude with gel in his hair who speaks in cliches and has all the pizzazz of a resin bag. Reggie Jackson was the portrait of flamboyance, the straw that stirred the drink, the problem child who jarred the equilibrium. But today, they are joined in baseball lore by the five home...
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The FanHouse - Navy Football (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NFL GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Shame on them for booing him, mocking him, staging funerals for him, wearing flip-flops and eating waffle fries to ridicule him. The hostility toward Brett Favre was an embarrassment to a community that never looked smaller, an affront to the idea that the publicly owned Packers and their fans form a unique family bond amid the greed and sleaze of...
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The FanHouse - Buffalo Bills (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
by Jay Mariotti PHILADELPHIA -- This is why sports has instant replay, Bud Selig: to get the call right, to make sure history isn't tainted by blown decisions, to remove the human element when the human being is conspicuously wrong. I'm not sure the Yankees would have won Game 3 of the World Series if Major League Baseball didn't review home-run calls. Game 3: Yankees 8, Phillies 5 | Box Score | Series...
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The FanHouse - Big 12 Basketball (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: MLB NEW YORK -- Ever seen a crowd in this city so quiet, so wet, so stupefied? This was to have been the beginning of another pinstripe coronation, the first in a series of Win One For The Boss vignettes in the House That Ruthlessness Built. Instead, all the puffy hubris was silenced on a rainy, windy Wednesday night by Cliff Lee , who began the year in woeful Cleveland...
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The FanHouse - Alabama Football (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: NBA CLEVELAND -- He always has a rapper's catchphrase for everything and everyone, primarily himself. And while Shaquille O'Neal really should adopt The Big Hypothermia -- an ode to a bone-chilled, unemployment-scarred town that couldn't be farther from Hollywood if it were on Uranus -- it's typical that he would produce a more creative, applicable nickname. "I'm...
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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Thanks for your patience while I was away. I'm done traveling until Thanksgiving. Incidentally, I'm about 95% sure I saw Jay Mariotti, looking sort of dapper in a sport coat and jeans, at a Hudson News in O'Hare today. I didn't say anything to him, just walked by the store a couple times to make sure it was him. Most of the things I think about that guy are things I'd be ashamed to say out loud. I...
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Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Isn’t the Fall Classic supposed to happen in the fall? Not this year. The World Series begins tomorrow night and, in case Bud Selig hasn’t noticed, it’s “never seemed more irrelevant,” writes Jay Mariotti. It’s simply too late in the year for baseball. “I can hear my body clock ticking,...
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Purple Row (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
More photos » by Wilfredo Lee - AP This guy had a more impressive comeback than the ToddFather? Browse more photos » If I were Troy Tulowitzki , I would listen a great deal more when Derek Jeter talks about me than, say, when Jay Mariotti spouts off on Around the Horn. Peers> MSM. Hence the honor of the Players' Choice Awards, voted on by fellow players. Tulo was indeed on the ballot...
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The FanHouse - Washington Redskins (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: MLB NEW YORK -- The lords of baseball don't realize it, probably because they're old and stubborn and semi-senile. But their showcase event, the World Series, never has seemed more irrelevant in American life. I say it even as the New York Yankees , a world-famous brand name with gaudy stars and Hollywood girlfriends, return for the first time in six years to play the...
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The FanHouse - Xavier Basketball (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: MLB NEW YORK -- On a pleasant, Doppler-free evening made for bare, brawny forearms, Alex Rodriguez continued his postseason awakening without even swinging a bat. This was in the fourth inning, when the Angels were unable to employ their desired intentional walk because the bases were loaded. So as 50,000 fans stood and shrieked and awaited magic in the new Stadium --...
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The FanHouse - Detroit Lions (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
by Jay Mariotti Filed under: MLB ANAHEIM, Calif. -- "This is mine! Come on, Scioscia! This is MINE!" John Lackey shouted at his manager on the mound, scowling at him, then inserting a spicy word or two. Mike Scioscia, long respected as one of the game's wisest tacticians, didn't agree with his pitcher's assessment. He asked for the baseball and told Lackey to leave, even though he owned...
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