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OK, so I’ll be kicking in a $10 Dunkin Donuts gift card on top of the winner’s $25 restaurant card, since I have no Final Four teams left in my pool entry of the first-ever Bleacher Creature NCAA pool.
Here are the current leaders.
Ricky Nault has 24 and has UConn going to the final
Cuse in [...]

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First off, I checked in with Chip Dunn last night who confirmed all the hot gossip.
Awful break as both Taylor Robinson and Brendan Bretton won’t be able to pitch this spring due to offseason injuries.
For those of you who don’t follow this that closely, you’re talking the Hillies No. 1 and 2 starters, in a [...]

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Call me crazy, but I’m not happy at all with the college hoop migration toward the pro game. Remember when teams actually ran offenses and set plays.
Now, it’s more of the NBA-style pick-and-roll till you puke game.
Not that I didn’t spend at least 40 hours glued to the games from Thursday to Sunday, I mean [...]

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Come on folks, a free $25 gift card is yours for the winning entry
Again, Final 8, Final 4, Final 2, champs and total points.
Take two minutes, dump it into a comment box and get into my contest. There are less than 10 entrants right now.
Gotta like them odds.
Note: The first comment below is my official [...]

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Remember a $25 gift card to the MV restaurant of your choice is the prize for your winning my inpromptu bracket challenge.
Step up and enter here in the comments and tell your friends.
I need the traffic folks.
Give me your final 8, final 4, final 2, champion and total in the title game, that’s it.
Enter with [...]

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Memorial ball coming out.
Salem must:
1. Control the defensive glass.
2. Get Josh Jones going.
3. Find a way to stop Jason Cheverfils
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A 5-0 run off the break with Cheverfils scoring twice, 27-21 memorial
Make that a 7-0 run with nobody on Salem stopping Cheverfils … (6 for the half, 13 for the game).
Timeout by a lethargic bunch of [...]

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Tip off at 6:03, controlled by Memorial
Not a good sign for Slaem as Josh Jones and Mike Kimball miss threes on the first possession.
Salem is going to need Sean Bergeron tonight, Memorial is big and physical.
2:56 left in the first Q, Memorial, which is pounding it to Jason Cheverfils, leads 8-4.
Salem getting pouned off the [...]

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We’ll be livein Durham tonight with updates in Salem’s quest for a three-peat at the Class L state semifinals.
Reminder: We want to buy you a dinner in the near future. Get your entries in for my NCAA tournament contest.
Entries close at 11 a.m. Thursday. See my previous post for all the rules!!!

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Guess whose blog just got a makeover baby???
And there’s plenty more where our new look is coming from. I’m talking video podcasts, up-close and personal interviews tackling issues with the athletes and more …
To kick it off, my grand reopening if you will, I will be offering my own 2009 NCAA men’s tournament contest.Rules are [...]

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Congrats to all the champs crowned in the region, Central girls on the hardwood, Pinkerton Academy and Timberlane on the ice.
You guys deserve all kinds of credit.
Ok, now for some hoop talk.
Took in the NH twinbill yesterday, watching Portsmouth over Pelham for the Class I title in the matinee and then Salem obliterating BG in [...]

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