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Los Angeles Lakers: The 2012-13 Season in Retrospect
How did a Los Angeles Lakers season that started off with such high hopes and anticipation end in such heartbreak? It was only late last summer when GM Mitch Kupchak engineered ...
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Los Angeles Lakers: The First-Round Exit Is Nigh
So yes, the Lakers made the playoffs and the seventh seed at that. But this isn't fun. It feels more like a death watch...
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Los Angeles Lakers: Is Metta World Peace Too Sexy?
I don’t even know where to begin with the Lakers. Should I talk about how joyless the basketball is in LA right now? How the entire team looks exhausted? How I am exhausted ...
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Kobe's Injury Means Dwight Howard Gets to Prove He Can Lead the LA Lakers
OK, Los Angeles Laker fans…don’t panic. Yet. As everybody knows by now, Kobe Bryant went down with a sprained ankle in the final seconds of the 96-92 loss to ...
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Los Angeles Lakers Mount Furious Comeback to Beat New Orleans
This is what Lakers fans thought they were getting back in August when Mitch Kupchak pulled off a series of moves bringing Dwight Howard , Steve Nash and various other pieces to Los Angeles...
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Los Angeles Lakers: Have They Found Their Mojo?
When last we met, I was opining that the Lakers needed to recapture their mojo . They’d completely lost their swagger. Well Lakers fans, here we are halfway through the Lakers’ Grammy road trip...
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Los Angeles Lakers: Is There Any Hope for the Playoffs?
Is there any hope? Short answer: not much. Not unless there are drastic changes. I have been trying to put my finger on what is wrong with the Lakers so that it can be addressed and help fix the team...
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Will Dwight Howard Still Be a Laker at the End of the Season?
Numbers to contemplate: There are 16 games left until the All-Star break. The Los Angeles Lakers ' current record is 17-21. Take a look at the Lakers' upcoming 16 opponents and see where you think the wins are...
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What's Next for Mark Sanchez and the New York Jets?
What a disaster the 2012 season has been for the New York Jets . Now the fallout begins. General manager Mike Tannenbaum was fired , but head coach Rex Ryan stays...
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Sanchez Is Benched, Jets Win and Chaos Rules the Day
Fear ultimately did what no amount of coaching and practice could ... motivate the Jets to play better. When Rex Ryan benched Mark Sanchez in the third quarter against the Cardinals , it got everyone's attention...
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Los Angeles Lakers: How They Can Get Their Swagger Back
I’ ve been trying to think how to explain to my non-basketball-obsessed friends and family why Laker Nation is freaking out right now...
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NFL Week 8: Do the New York Jets Have Any Shot at the Playoffs?
Since the loss in New England, I have come to the following conclusion: The Patriots aren ’t as good as we thought, and the Jets aren ’t as bad as we thought...
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NFL Week 7: Jets Head to Foxboro to Face Patriots
The Jets are going to be underdogs when they head to Foxboro this weekend. So the question becomes, can the Jets upset the Patriots ? And the answer is, maybe. It’s not out of the realm of possibility...
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New York Jets: the Tebow Package Is Not Working Right Now
When last we met, I was opining that I thought Rex Ryan was facing one of his toughest coaching challenges ever: Two demoralizing personnel losses and a 34-0 blowout embarrassment at the hands of the 49ers ...
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Rex Ryan: Week 5 Is the Moment of Truth for New York Jets Coach
The Jets were embarrassed in front of their home crowd on Sunday, shutout and shellacked to the tune of 34 points. Everyone knew the 49ers were a better squad, but the Jets weren ’t even competitive...
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NY Jets: Darrelle Revis Is Out, but All Is Not Lost
If there is any silver lining for the Jets in the wake of the replacement refs' gaffe on Monday Night Football it’s that the white-hot spotlight of media attention is not focused on Florham Park...
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New York Jets: A Loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers Takes the Shine off Week 1
Well, the good news is the Patriots lost. The bad news is so did the Jets . But let’s all remain calm, Jets fans. It could be worse...
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The Los Angeles Lakers Win. Again.
Only the Lakers could pull off such a blockbuster trade that threw the Olympics and the start of the NFL season off the front pages and threw Sportscenter ’s evening lineup completely out of whack...
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NBA Finals 2012: A Laker Fan's Perspective
I can pinpoint the exact moment I changed my mind about LeBron James: it was late in Game 4 of the NBA Finals as he was kneeling on the sideline desperately trying to will himself back into the game after suffering debilitating cramps...
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NBA Playoffs 2012: Los Angeles Lakers Post-Mortem
It's taken me days to come to terms with the end of the Lakers season—mostly because it also has the feel of the end of an era. I didn't want to see that truth in print staring back at me...
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Are the New York Jets Setting Up Mark Sanchez to Fail?
What on earth is going on with the New York Jets ? I hardly ever agree with Stephen A. Smith, but he is absolutely right . The fix is in for Mark Sanchez ...
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NBA Playoffs 2012: Can the Lakers Beat the Thunder?
Peace be with you. And also with you. All hail the return of Metta World Peace. The Lakers finally closed out Denver in Game 7. A task they should have done two games ago...
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NBA Playoffs 2012: Why the Nuggets Can Win the Series Against the Lakers
The title of Charles Barkley’s 2002 book is “I May Be Wrong, but I Doubt It.” And for good reason, too: The TNT studio analyst has been proclaiming non-stop that ...
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NBA Playoffs 2012: Kobe Bryant and Los Angeles Lakers' Quest for Title 17 Begins
Every so often, out of nowhere, Kobe Bryant will surprise everyone and tell us exactly what he’s thinking. Or what was really going on. Typically, during the playoffs, Bryant’s answers are brusque and his comments are terse...
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NBA Playoffs 2012: Los Angeles Lakers and the Effort Required to Win It All
So Laker fans...anything going on while I’ ve been away? Kidding! Obviously “the elbow of doom” is the big story. Or as I call it: The return of Ron Artest...
