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Sunday braindump: Playoff edition
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24 Apr 2011Any sports fan worth his or her salt understands that the NBA regular season is supremely tedious and largely irrelevant. The playoffs, on the other hand, are an entirely different story, and once again, the league’s postseason has been nothing short of thrilling. Thus far, the first round has already given us a fair share [...]
Congratulations to the WNBA champion Seattle Storm!
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16 Sep 2010We’d like to interrupt, ever so briefly, football season to congratulate the Seattle Storm on winning its second WNBA title. So focused on football (and men’s sports in general), we’ve been a little remiss in not acknowledging the spectacular run of the Storm, so let’s give them their due after they closed out the Atlanta [...]
Sometimes it’s pretty tough to be a sports fan. Sometimes, like the past few weeks, you have to wonder whether there’s any competence and integrity left in sports and whether it’s worth caring anymore. While the Mariners continue to stumble through an incredibly inept season that had many of us turning them off a month [...]
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- Tags: Bad calls, Perfect game, World Cup
One Shining Monday
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6 Apr 2010Wow, that was a heckuva sports day. One of the greatest national championship games ever, the start of MLB season, Tiger Woods’ Masters press conference and the fallout from the Donovan McNabb trade to the Skins made Monday one of the most action-packed days on the sports calendar in recent memory. Here are just a [...]
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- Tags: mcnabb, mlb opening day, ncaa title, obama, tiger
A year in the life of OTPB
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22 Feb 2010I started tinkering with the idea of a sports blog several months before, but I didn’t like the design and some of the other features, so it wasn’t until Feb. 22 of last year that Chris and I officially launched Outside The Press Box. It’s been a fun year, and I’ve learned a lot about [...]
OTPB now a bi-coastal enterprise
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4 Feb 2010When Chris and I first started this little site about a year ago, our focus was to be primarily on the Seattle sports scene, with a sprinkling of national news for good measure. Things, however, don’t always go the way you plan them. I have recently moved to the Washington, DC area, which makes keeping [...]
The East Coast-West Coast debate
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2 Jul 2009I’m about to embark on a 10-day trip back home to Virginia, which means keeping up with the Mariners will be as difficult as if they were playing on Mars. No ESPN highlights, no box scores in the paper, no asking anyone about last night’s game, no nothing. Sure, there’s the Internet for all that [...]
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- Tags: east vs. west, mariners, NFL, tv
Boxer Bernard Hopkins apparently doesn’t like Donovan McNabb because the quarterback didn’t kiss his ass when Hopkins visited the Eagles. Hopkins reportedly called McNabb a “lapdog” and said the Eagles should sign Michael Vick. Shocking that a fighter nicknamed the Executioner would prefer a QB who was sent to prison for murdering dogs. So add [...]
Uniformity – The best and worst of classic jerseys
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12 Jun 2009OTPB’s uniform series wraps up with today’s look at classic jerseys. There are so many winners and losers in these categories that I decided to expand the number of selections to 10, covering the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL. There were some tough choices, but I think the final results are a diverse look at [...]
Saturday braindump
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7 Mar 2009Congratulations to the Washington Huskies, who earned their first outright Pac-10 regular season title in more than 50 years by winning another slugfest, 67-60, over Washington State on Saturday. Whatever the Huskies’ faults, they have proven time and again that they have the mental toughness needed to win in high-pressure situations – a trait that [...]
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- Tags: braindump, t.o., uw
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- Chris: I would have been fine with Kuechly. Would have been interesting to see if the Hawks would have been [...]
- Brian Barney: What are your thoughts about Luke Kuechly or is drafting a linebacker early a mistake after the Curr [...]
- AgentJ: College tuition is already high enough. Giving the NCAA a blank check to up the price of a degree is [...]
- Chris: Nice work, EZ. Here's the one I was writing at the same time: http://www.examiner.com/washington- [...]
- Chris: You were right. (I just wanted to test our comments) [...]
- Seahawks Examiner: Is Chris Michael the next Shaun Alexander?
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- Hard to argue with Carroll’s choice of Russell Wilson at this point
- Why would Pete Carroll start Russell Wilson now?
- Will Peyton Manning talk to Pete Carroll this time? (And more)
- Seahawks got second round started Thursday with Bruce Irvin
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- Mariners still don’t have an offense
- Catch up on a week’s worth of Seahawk content at Examiner.com
- It’s time for NCAA to contract and pay football and basketball players
