Free Ballin’

The problem with hating Windows, for me, is that I hate Macs too.  And I also hate Linux, now.  And….well, that’s it, ey?  (Listen, nerd, don’t contradict me and name some obscure OS that’s less popular than  Neo Geo.)  I’ve spent so many hours today researching Linux distros that I just want to go Project [...]

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I’m just going through some photos and movies I’ve taken on the trip, thus far.  Doing some sorting, will post some soon.  I came across this pic of the press pass I got from the Mavericks for the Mavericks/Pacers game I covered on 11/25. Now I like the name of my blog, which is also [...]

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1. The first thing that popped into my head this morning, when I opened my eyes, was: how cool it would be if a sci-fi movie (complete with spaceships and aliens) put “Inspired by a true story” in the opening credits. 2. I don’t remember the second thing I wanted to note here, but that [...]

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The story of the dearth of shooting in the American pro game is well worn, by this point, and dated.  All season I’ve been tracking the outstanding shooting numbers of bunch of players, but didn’t really take a look at the larger picture until just now, and it confirmed my sense that the NBA can [...]

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These are two things I don’t like to read about in basketball articles.  I have become really tired of “talented” as a description for an NBA basketball player.  I only use it when I’m too lazy to describe a player’s abilities any other way, because in the context of NBA writing, it’s almost meaningless.  There [...]

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I lost my third knit hat, the other night.  I CANNOT keep hats or gloves.  I just have to accept it, I think.  Well, the first wasn’t lost, really, I just left it behind in San Antonio.  My friends there have sent it to me, I’m told.  The next hat I lost, I definitely lost.  [...]

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I woke bright and bloody early to catch the 8AM bus into town (they only come to where I’m staying once an hour) a good 20-minute ride.  It seemed like a wasted effort because when I arrived none of the stores were open.  I thought I might some little cafe where I could buy a [...]

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I’m in Asheville, home of no professional sports.  Or I think there actually might be a minor-league baseball team around here, somewhere.  My next game is in Charlotte, on February 6th and so I thought I would take a week somewhere to to do some project work, including transcribing and posting reports from a few [...]

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I’m sleepy. I didn’t get as much sleep as I would have preferred. I had opportunity. My couchsurfing host in Greenville, SC, had turned in at 9:30, and I was exhausted enough to do the same, but I wanted a shower and took care of a few things before heading to sleep, around midnight. Morning [...]

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I left Atlanta this morning. No I didn’t. I left Atlanta around 4PM. I had planned to leave this morning, but some extensive research on the Hotlanta district had me out till 3:30AM and asleep an hour or so later. I’ll tell about that soon enough; I learned a lot about everything but basketball. So [...]

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