Published between
August 02, 2010and
September 02, 2010-
Pardiniosophy Sports Edition: NBA Playoffs Preview
Pardiniosophy is a podcast where Nick Pardini talks about politics, society, and sports. In this special sports edition, Nick talks with Common Sense Magazine analyst Roman Mathys about the early results of the MLB season and previews the NBA playoffs...
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Nick's NBA Notes 11/1/2008
1. Lakers look dominant. Although the Los Angeles Lakers have only played two games this season, they seem to be proving preseason prognosticators to be correct by playing dominant basketball...
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Episode 24: The Demise of the Dollar
What has happened to the economy and what is the real extent of this slowdown? Nick explains the truth behind these problems lies in a 95 year history of the US government debasing the dollar...
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College Football Weekly Roundup Week Six: Here Comes Alabama
With a tumultuous week filled with upsets and nine ranked teams losing. Who now leads the national title race and who gets the BCS shovel? 1...
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Why Don’t Commentators Ever Run for Office?
Commentators across the media from talk radio to television constantly rant about political issues and what is wrong with society...
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Mountain West a BCS Conference? Only If It Absorbs WAC's Top Teams
College football, unlike any other major sport, lacks a playoff. In the current BCS system, due to polls and automatic BCS berths, only schools from the Pac-10, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, Big East, and the ACC can compete for national titles...
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College Football Weekly Roundup 1: UnACCeptable
What happened to the ACC on week one? The ACC had possibly the worst opening week ever for a BCS conference since the start of the BCS...
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Common Sense College Football Preview Part VIII: Top 25 and Non-Conference Games
The college football season has kicked off. The 12-game season has opened up BCS schools to challenge themselves in the non-conference...
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Common Sense College Football Preview Part VII: Non-BCS Contenders
With the opening of a fifth BCS bowl game and the recent trend of non-BCS schools making BCS bowl games in three of the past four seasons (2-1 in those games), which team from outside ...
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Common Sense College Football Part VI: Big Time Quarterbacking In The Big XII
The Big XII conference historically has been known for tough football and the running game. However, there might be a change in identity this season...
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Common Sense College Football Preview Part V: ACC
Despite bowl struggles, the ACC will still have a competitive race to reach the Orange Bowl. With Florida State and Miami facing down years, the ACC has its most wide-open race in years...
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Common Sense College Football Preview Part III: A Critique of Big Ten Football
The Big Ten used to set the standard of a college football conference. Due its recent futility, the Big Ten is now a joke among college football fans across America...
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Common Sense College Football Preview Part IV: Big East Preview
In recent years, the Big East has improved from being a joke of a BCS conference (now the Big Ten) to the fourth best conference in college football. Other than Syracuse, every team in this league has a shot at the Big East title...
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Common Sense College Football Preview Part II: Pac-10 Preview
The Pac-10 is not as deep as last season, but the league is top heavy with a national championship favorite in USC and three BCS bowl contenders in Arizona State, Oregon, and Oregon State...
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Common Sense Mag College Football Preview Part I: Florida Retakes SEC
This article is the beginning of an eight-part series that will predict outcome of the 2008 college football season...
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Canadian Athletics: An Olympic Sized Embarrassment
The Olympics have been filled with great stories and medals awarded to numerous countries from the powerhouses of United States and China to much smaller nations such as Tajikstan and Lithuania...
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Open Mic: USA Vs China Part I: Political Stakes In The Olympic Games
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Going Greek: How Josh Childress Leaving the Hawks Impacts the NBA and NCAA
For years the Euro leagues have been nothing but an afterthought to NBA fans. Undrafted rookies or washed up veterans who failed to make the twelve man roster often go to Europe to languish in obscurity as the NBA's version of the CFL...
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With the Seattle Supersonics Gone, Who’s Next on the Move?
In American professional sports, franchise relocation is inevitable. The Seattle Supersonics’ move to Oklahoma city is just the most recent...
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NBA Draft 2008 Analysis: Winners, Losers, Steals and Busts
Now that the draft and major draft day trades are completed, it is time to analyze which teams won and lost from this draft...
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Hollywood Heist: Celtics Steal One As Lakers Choke in Game 4
With the score 35-14, the Los Angeles Lakers took a twenty-one point first quarter lead—the largest in NBA Finals history. At the end of the second quarter, Jordan Farmar banked in a three-pointer to maintain an 18-point lead at halftime...
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Globalization and Sports, Part V: Will Soccer Ever Be Relevant in America?
In recent years American sports leagues have been attempting to export the popularity of baseball, basketball, hockey and football abroad...
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Globalization and Sports Part IV: NFL, Nationalistic Football League
The NFL, by a large margin, earns the most revenue and has the most popularity of any professional sports league in the United States, and holds the title as the world’s most commercially successful sports league...
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Globalization and Sports, Part III: Mixed Resuts for MLB
Ever since baseball was first played in the 1830s, the game has regarded as America’s national pastime. However, baseball actually has more popularity in several foreign countries such ...
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Globalization and Sports Part II: How The NBA Should Expand Into Europe
Globalization has taken the hold of America's major sport, but no league has had more success or a more involved future with the international market than the NBA...
