This article has been submitted by Stu Wilkinson. A couple weeks ago one of my favourite writers, Bill Simmons of ESPN’s Page 2, called the NBA a “markedly better” product than college basketball in one of his NBA Mailbags. This both surprised and disappointed me as a big college basketball fan. Hey, I love the [...]
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Nuts to Bill Simmons: Why NCAA Basketball is Superior to NBA Basketball
Posted: 22nd May 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in NBA Ball, NCAA Hoops, Stu WilkinsonComments Off
Gary Roberts Wednesday – Kris Letang
Posted: 21st May 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in Hockey, Stu WilkinsonComments Off
This article has been submitted by Stu Wilkinson. Yeah, I wrote another thing about the Pens, but I didn’t want to violate one of my core principles: Whenever one of my teams makes the Stanley Cup Finals, Super Bowl, or World Series, I write a Gary Roberts Wednesday piece about a key player on that [...]
Gary Roberts Wednesday – Derek Fisher
Posted: 14th May 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in NBA Ball, Stu WilkinsonComments Off
This article has been submitted by Stu Wilkinson. I don’t like the Lakers, mostly because I just flat-out don’t like Kobe Bryant’s game. My attitude towards him has flip-flopped more than a Democrat trying to appeal to NASCAR dads, but right now I’m not a big fan of all the whining and wincing that comes [...]
Gary Roberts Wednesday – Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Posted: 30th April 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in NBA Ball, Stu WilkinsonComments Off
This article has been submitted by Stu Wilkinson. A lot of people talk about how brutal LeBron’s supporting cast is. For the most part, they wouldn’t be wrong. Let’s check out the three highest paid players on Cleveland this year: Ben Wallace, James, and Wally World Szczerbiak (you can officially forget that he was an [...]
Gary Roberts Wednesdays – Phil Kessel
Posted: 23rd April 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in Hockey, Stu WilkinsonComments Off
This article has been submitted by Stu Wilkinson. I’m not going to lie, the CBC stole a little bit of my thunder during Game 7 between the Habs and Bruins on Monday, but I’m sticking to my guns anyway. After the disastrous NHL Lockout of 2004-05, hockey came back with a younger and more creative [...]
Gary Roberts Wednesday – Brad Boyes
Posted: 16th April 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in Hockey, Stu WilkinsonThis article has been submitted by Stu Wilkinson and is a weekly feature. Let’s take a gander at the NHL’s goal scoring leader board and the impressive names in the top ten. Established stars like Iginla, Lecavalier, Zetterberg, and Gaborik are up there with young guns like Ovechkin, Geno Malkin, and Ilya Kovalchuk. Dany Heatley [...]
Gary Roberts Wednesdays – Corey Perry
Posted: 9th April 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in Hockey, Stu WilkinsonThis article is a weekly feature submitted by Stu Wilkinson. With the Stanley Cup Playoffs starting tonight at 7:00 Eastern Standard Time, I figured it would be fitting to use this space to write up some sort of unsung hockey player. The problem is, I don’t know much about hockey, except that I like to [...]
All Unsung NCAA Tournmanet Team
Posted: 5th April 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in NCAA Hoops, Stu WilkinsonThis article has been submitted by Stu ‘Daddy’ Wilkinson. G Mario Chalmers (Kansas) For more, see Mario in GRW. Super Mario is my boy on the black sheep of the Final Four, Kansas, but I could have made this team him and the rest of his Jayhawk buddies. I wanted to get some non-Kansas dap [...]
Gary Roberts Wednesdays – Mario Chalmers
Posted: 2nd April 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in NCAA Hoops, Stu WilkinsonThis article has been submitted by Stu Wilkinson and is a weekly feature. Check the site on Saturday for our participation in Unsung Player Day. Shhh, the Jayhawks are sleeping. With Stephen Curry out of the picture, the story of the 2007-08 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is four number one seeds making the Final Four. [...]
Gary Roberts Wednesdays – Joey Dorsey
Posted: 26th March 2008 by Stu Wilkinson in NCAA Hoops, Stu WilkinsonThis article has been submitted by Stu Wilkinson (this week’s Podcast guest), and is a regular Wednesday feature. I’d like to offer my condolences to Mark Few and Greg Paulus, who were obviously the first victims of what will become the Gary Roberts Wednesday Curse. Despite the dangers of putting the curse on one of [...]