D.C. Sports Bog Archive: NBA
Deron Washington Remembers Greg Paulus
(By Streeter Lecka - Getty) Deron Washington was in the news twice last week: once for signing a contract with the Detroit Pistons, and once for being permanently honored at Virginia Tech's new practice facility in an image of him hurdling Greg Paulus's head. Oddly, I had talked to...
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August 17, 2009; 5:44 PM ET |
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Shaq Denied Entrance to White House
Shaq demonstrates The Claw. So last week on The Mike Wise Show, Shaquille O'Neal posed one of the timeless questions of our era: If I show up, unannounced, at the White House, could I get in? Turns out this was no idle speculation. It was an actual bet, between...
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July 27, 2009; 6:55 PM ET |
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Could Shaq Get Into the White House?
So can Shaq just waltz into the White House by virtue of being Shaq? It's an interesting question. I'd guess no, security being what it is these days, but I'll make my no a "No With Autographs." The so-called Big Witness Protection was on The Mike Wise Show this afternoon,...
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July 24, 2009; 4:06 PM ET |
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DaJuan Summers on the Pistons and the Hoyas
(By Paul Sancya - AP) In his three seasons at Georgetown, DaJuan Summers averaged 9, 11 and 14 points per game. By the end of his junior year, with the Hoyas in some weird freefall, he often looked lost offensively, scoring a total of 19 points in two late-season...
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July 17, 2009; 1:14 PM ET |
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The Pistons, a GW Castoff, and a 1-27 Season
(By Carlos Osorio - AP) From a national perspective, the most interesting things about the hiring of John Kuester as the Detroit Pistons' head coach were his lack of NBA experience and his unknown name. From a local perspective--or, at least, for longtime locals--his hiring was about 1988-1989, when...
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Dan Steinberg
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July 9, 2009; 2:22 PM ET |
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Tiger on Romo, MJ and MJ
By Rob Carr - AP Today's Tiger Woods press conference was a celebritpalooza. I mean, Dan Hellie AND Lindsay Czarniak? No no no, I mean the questions. Tiger got questions about Tony Romo, Jim Brown, Michael Jordan, Roger Federer, Michael Jackson, and Barack Obama, among others. Nothing about Ovechkin,...
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June 30, 2009; 1:48 PM ET |
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