Back on December 4, I wrote the following,

The Spurs beat the Celtics on the boards 55-32. A plus 23 rebounding edge is usually enough to secure a victory, but not last night, and not against the Celtics.
The Spurs may have won the rebounding battle, but they lost in every other phase of play. The Celtics controlled the game from the outset.
“It’s a [...]

Some of the most interesting questions facing the coaching staff this season revolve around our big men. The frontcourt has depth and a diversity of skill sets. Figuring out how to organize that depth will be a challenge, although a far more pleasant challenge than figuring how to navigate last season’s lack thereof.
One of the [...]

The always provocative Wendell Berry is good at digging for disease, never becoming arrested at the surface, staring at symptoms. He wants to get beneath all that.  In a thoughtful Harper’s piece dated May, 2008 –Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits–Berry takes on the disease of limitlessness.  Early last year, Berry was responding to the [...]

Ole is running a short but fun interview with Fabricio Oberto, newest member of the Washington Wizards. The most important take away from the article is that Oberto is fully recovered from the atrial fibrillation which caused him to miss games last season. The fun stuff is a portrait of Fabricio as a tourist, his [...]