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1. 36 Hours of Hoops: The Glenn Wilkes Experience by Kyle Whelliston

S6 November 22, 2009 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Cures and diseases are so closely related. They often define each other -- a cure is designed to erase a disease, which in turn must build resistance and immunity in order to survive and destroy. As I found out again this summer, booster shots introduce a small amount of the... [more]

2. Hope vs. Hope in Ospreyland by Kyle Whelliston

S6 November 19, 2009 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The boy-girl mascots of the University of North Florida are named Ozzie and Harriet. They're two sea hawks, or rather ospreys, and they wear the numbers 19 and 72 to commemorate their school's opening year. The names are kind of a weird joke, because when UNF started, The Adv... [more]

3. The Worst Pizza Ever Made by Kyle Whelliston

S2 January 1, 2006 Game 116: at Delaware 79, Central Connecticut State 73 Thursday, December 30, 2005 Bob Carpenter Center - Newark, DE The difference between being a Real Actual Sports Journalist and a citizen journalist (or "blogger," if you prefer) goes far beyond the fact that coaches and sports information di... [more]

4. Proof by Kyle Whelliston

S2 January 1, 2006 Game 115: Carnegie Mellon (D3) 51, at Princeton 46 Wednesday, December 29, 2005 Jadwin Gymnasium - Princeton, NJ This is, perhaps, the only surviving film footage of the Carnegie Mellon Tartans closing and celebrating their historic victory atPrinceton. Please enjoy this rare opportunity to watch... [more]

5. Ronnie Superstar by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 27, 2005 Game 114: at Manhattan 81, Fordham 68 Friday, December 23, 2005 Draddy Gymnasium - Bronx, NY The 21st Century is amazing. Thanks to scientific advances and mass-production, all you need is a phone line, a computer and a microphone and you're on the radio. Or live on the internet, with RealAudio o... [more]

6. The Best by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 27, 2005 Game 113: at Central Connecticut State 72, Binghamton 68 Thursday, December 22, 2005 Detrick Gymnasium - New Britain, CT The voice is unmistakable - the rich and folksy tones brighten the corners of CCSU's home court with warm, gooey honey poured all over a chilly December night. Good evening, l... [more]

7. The Portrait of Kevin McHale by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 26, 2005 Game 112: Maryland-Eastern Shore 59, at Brown 57 Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Pizzitola Sports Center - Providence, RI It's the kind of portrait that haunts you before you even look at it. The subject seems so familiar, so eerily familiar. Unadorned and untitled, the portrait has a Dorian Gray effe... [more]

8. SWAC P.R. Disasters by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 22, 2005 Game 111: at Boston College 80, Texas Southern 53 Sunday, December 18, 2005 Silvio O. Conte Forum - Chestnut Hill, MA When it comes down to it, there's only one difference between a mid-major squad and a team of power conference prima donnas - our boys end their seasons a few days or weeks before... [more]

9. Purgatorio by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 21, 2005 Game 110: Ohio 71, at Rhode Island 63 Saturday, December 10, 2005 Ryan Center - Kingston, RI If you skiied through high school English with yellow Cliff's Notes strapped to your feet, or if you received the bulk of your literary education on the can from "Don't Know Much About Books" books, you p... [more]

10. Roof Romantic by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 17, 2005 Game 109: at Boston University 67, New Hampshire 46 Thursday, December 8, 2005 Case Gymnasium - Boston, MA On Thanksgiving Tuesday in 2005, the city of Boston made a collective decision to leave town early. The city's residents clogged the westbound MassPike with their automobiles, stringing up a... [more]

11. Feinstein and Me by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 10, 2005 Game 107: Villanova 79, at Bucknell 60 Tuesday, December 6, 2005 Sojka Pavilion - Lewisburg, PA When you sling adjectives and metaphors about the Patriot League these days, especially to a national audience, you do so under a long and cold shadow. Someone's already been there and done that. So I... [more]

12. Great Mohawks in History by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 10, 2005 Game 108: at Iona 80, Rider 59 Wednesday, December 7, 2005 Mulcahy Center - New Rochelle, NY Most kids who sport the mohawk haircut don' t care what you think, if you crack Travis Bickle or Mr. T jokes, if you tell them that punk is dead. Their feelings are protected by pointy liberty spikes and ... [more]

13. Let's Play Five by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 5, 2005 Game 106: at Holy Cross 71, Fordham 63 (2OT) Sunday, December 4, 2005 Hart Center - Worcester, MA The first snowfall is like the first seasonal anything - the first skinned knee of the summer, the first sniffle of the autumn. There's a little bit of a shock, and then when it happens again you're ... [more]

14. The Anti-UMPFN by Kyle Whelliston

S2 December 2, 2005 Game 105: at Bucknell 87, Yale 60 Saturday, November 26, 2005 Sojka Pavilion - Lewisburg, PA There's a white sign that greets you when you drive onto their campus, a lush green acreage dotted by vermillion-brick buildings. "Welcome to", "http://schools.basketballstate.com/BUCK >Bucknell" it s... [more]

15. Backwoods Freaks of Nature by Kyle Whelliston

S2 November 28, 2005 Game 104: Nevada 77, at Vermont 62 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Patrick Gymnasium - Burlington, VT Interstate 89 northbound is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about. There are plenty of "Next Exit 15 Miles" reminders, too many unsettlingly incomplete gas/food/lodging triads, and tr... [more]

16. America East Wonk by Kyle Whelliston

S2 November 24, 2005 Game 103: Michigan 51, at Boston University 46 Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Agganis Arena - Boston, MA (with full and absolute apologies to John Gasaway) Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Is There A Triaminic For Coughing Up the Ball? Michigan beat Boston University 51-46 last night at the gleaming... [more]

17. Family by Kyle Whelliston

S2 November 24, 2005 Game 102: at Providence 87, Vermont 77 Monday, November 21, 2005 Dunkin' Donuts Center - Providence, RI Here's an old joke for you. There are two types of people in this world, those who divide humanity into two types of people and those who don't. But in sports, there are actually three types of p... [more]

18. Square 101 by Kyle Whelliston

S2 November 21, 2005 Game 101: at Harvard 65, Vermont 57 Saturday, November 19, 2005 Lavietes Pavilion - Cambridge, MA In one single second of eternity, our planet spins billions of times around its sun, water and earth crash into eachother for territorial control, civilizations rise and fall. Same could be said for on... [more]