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The Final Word - who has written 6 posts on Writing the Pine.
The Final Word is only The Final Word because he takes no action and loves how you can write about sports when you never actually play anything. This is America, right?
This is….MSG IDOL
As the trade deadline approaches and the Knicks are considering a trade for Tracy McGrady, which would provide significant cap relief for this summer, The FinalWord and Pinesol started thinking about the future. One of the trade rumors floating around includes acquiring T-Mac, Brian Cook, and Joey Dorsey for Jared Jeffries, Larry Hughes, and Jordan [...]
Continue reading...The Tiger Woods Brand
Sunday, December 13, 2009
So as most of the sports world now knows, Tiger Woods has decided to take an indefinite leave of absence from the game of golf. As a fan and admirer of Tiger Woods’s contribution to the sport of golf and to the sports landscape in general, I felt torn about this entire Tiger situation. He’s [...]
Continue reading...Implications of the Pacquiao-Cotto fight
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Following Pacquiao’s complete decimation of Miguel Cotto in yesterday’s “fight”, the thought of a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight has the casual fight fan absolutely crazed right now. Pacquiao has been absolutely ruthless since his second victory over Juan Manuel Marquez back in 2008. In the past year and a half, Pac-man has been tearing through big-name opponents [...]
Continue reading...Thoughts on Andre Agassi…
Monday, November 2, 2009
I haven’t yet read Andre Agassi’s tell-all saga, but by all accounts it is an incredibly revealing book about his self-destruction into crystal meth addiction, his tumultuous and public relationship (and nasty break-up) with Brooke Shields, and his abusive relationship with his father who trained him as a child. I don’t really care about the [...]
Continue reading...Mayweather-Marquez Scorecards (sort of)
Sunday, September 20, 2009
OK, so this article started out as a round-by-round analysis of the fight. YJ and I were going to keep our own scorecards and turn that into an article. Mid-way through the fight, I realized how ridiculous this was, because our scorecards (and everyone else’s who was watching the fight) would look exactly the same [...]
Continue reading...HOW DARE YOU TheWritingIllini
Monday, June 8, 2009
For having any sort of top-10 list that include Chien-Ming Wang. Unbelievable. Do I need to elaborate on this any further? TheWritingIllini – HOW DARE YOU SIR
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