Cohan '17: Sleepers in the NBA playoffs
There are no Cinderellas in the NBA Playoffs. I went to Wikipedia to prove my point, and I was shocked by what I found. In this millennium, just one team below a fourth seed has made it to the Conference ...
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There are no Cinderellas in the NBA Playoffs. I went to Wikipedia to prove my point, and I was shocked by what I found. In this millennium, just one team below a fourth seed has made it to the Conference ...
Before the NBA season began, I made five bold predictions. Well, not that bold, considering they included such nuggets as “A bunch of teams will fall well below expectations,” and “All predictions ...
In the NBA, like in so much of popular culture, new rules the day. Something bursts onto the scene and sucks up all the air. For a while it is everywhere and everything. Then, one day, it stops being ...
There are few things in sports that truly shock me anymore. When you’re a kid, it’s easy to be amazed: the first time you see a buzzer beater, the ball swishing through the net in the glow of the ...
The NFL, MLB and NHL are crapshoots. We spend hours studying these sports. We watch games and skim box scores. We dissect athletes’ quotes for hidden meaning. We devour statistics, which in any other ...
Over Thanksgiving break, with no classes to fall asleep in and no projects to worry about, I had time to burn my way through an impressive (or depressing, depending on your perspective) number of movies. ...
“I thank you heavenly father for this food, this great day, these lovely people, in Jesus’s name we pray.” “Oy gevalt.” Let’s start here: “Transparent” is very funny. “Transparent” ...
The NBA is back, which sounds weird, because it feels like it never ended. Actually, it kind of feels like it’s ending now, when it’s actually starting, because with all the off-season drama behind ...
“Rebounds, with their reliable uncertainty, are part of what makes basketball beautiful. There are general rules that dictate the nature of missed shots. But thanks to the perfect design of the basketball ...
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Remember when the Washington Capitals were the hot up-and-comers in the NHL? Remember when Ovechkin, Semin, Green and Backstrom ...
“Louie” is one of those shows that no one watches but everyone talks about, and by everyone, I mean critics. When it comes to TV, my wheelhouse is basically those shows and cartoons, so when I noticed ...
The slow trickle of trunks and suitcases onto campus is complete. Classes have officially begun. Back into our lives are lectures, homework, projects, labs, exams and grades — all the stuff we pay ...
I don’t have a TV. This means I have the fortune of streaming live games on the Internet. But while the Internet is amazing, when it comes to broadcasting live events, it’s not quite there yet. ...
Eastern Conference: No. 1 Pacers vs. No. 8 Hawks Pacers in six We begin with by far the least interesting series in the playoffs. This has to be the worst series since, well, Pacers-Hawks 2013. Actually, ...
I was stunned by the results of a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll. Apparently, 64 percent of people oppose paying college athletes. Only 33 percent support it. I’m guessing those 64 percent buy ...
The name “Redskins” is in the news again. Dan Snyder is donating money to American Indian tribes because that somehow makes the name less offensive, I guess. I’m not going to write about whether ...
I’m finally in on this Washington Wizards team. I reserve the right to pretend I never said that, but after the Wizards-Magic game on Friday, I think I’m finally ready to get behind this group. That ...
I’ve been watching a lot of Suns basketball lately. Why the Suns? Thanks to the Internet, I pretty much have my pick of any game. (Even if many of the best games are technically blacked out on an NBA ...
“If the advance of science questions what we regard as precious, what do we do about that?” Professor of Physics Leon Cooper, famous for teaching me physics (and for winning a Nobel Prize), got me ...
The NBA’s website has a cool little feature. When a game is close in the last few minutes, it sends a “Buzzer Beater Alert” to my desktop. I honestly have no idea how it is doing this. I certainly ...