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Basketball A Mexico

June 7, 2012 – 6:49 pm

What do you call two Mexicans playing basketball? Juan on Juan.

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Beat By The Old Age Truck

March 7, 2010 – 1:39 pm

New York’s newspapers reported that this January was the warmest January on record, but I can’t recall a single day since early December with the temperature out of the 30s. Yesterday the thermometer hit 45 and I picked up the telephone to call Shannon. “You want to shot some ball at deKalb.” The playground was […]

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The New York Bricks

November 1, 2009 – 7:57 pm

My love of basketball is well-documented along with my hatred of New York sports teams. The Red Sox’s World Series Championship in 2004 helped salve the long-enduring pain from Bucky Dent’s home run and the 1986 collapse against the Mets. I won’t mention names. Worst was the indignity my Celtics suffered at the hands of […]

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Oi Yey Ist Mir Basketball

October 27, 2009 – 7:46 pm

Tonight is the opening of the NBA season. The premiere match-up of the Cleveland Cavaliers versus the fabled Boston Celtics. Shaq and Lebron against the Big 3 of Garnett, Pierce, and Allen, combined age 100 plus. The score is tied with 2 minutes left in the 1st half. real basketball as opposed to the exhibition […]

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Why Shannon Greer Cannae Play Basketball

August 2, 2008 – 2:53 pm

I know Shannon Greer since he was 16. A West Village teenager with a good jump shot. He was a clean version of Jim Carroll, the junkie author of BASKETBALL DIARIES. I let him into the Milk Bar. Scottie Taylor, my boss, asked if he was under age. “Not as far as I know.”

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