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Archive for April, 2010

List of the Week: Top 50 Greatest Athletes of All-Time

Posted by deaconcat08 on 28th April 2010

  Greatest athletes of all-time     1   Michael Jordan 2   Babe Ruth 3   Jim Brown 4   Muhammad Ali 5   Wayne Gretzky 6   Jim Thorpe 7   Jack Nicklaus 8   Joe Montana 9   Shoeless Joe Jackson 10   Secretariat 11   Jesse Owens 12   Martina Navratilova [...]

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Top 50 Greatest Sports Moments of the 1980s and 90s

Posted by deaconcat08 on 17th April 2010

On the eve of 2010, I posted an entry on the greatest sporting events of the past decade (http://sportsentiment.com/2009/12/31/top-50-greatest-sports-moments-of-the-decade/).  These rankings were a big hit, so as we find ourselves in somewhat of a lull in the American sporting community, I thought it might be a good time to create a few more lists for [...]

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64 Reasons Why a 96 Team NCAA Tournament is the Worst Idea in the History of Sports

Posted by deaconcat08 on 12th April 2010

I’ve been hoping and praying that it wouldn’t happen, but it is looking more and more inevitable as the weeks go by.   The 96-team NCAA tournament appears to be on the way.  Get ready folks, the apocalypse is upon us.  I’m not entirely convinced that next year we will have a 96-team tournament, but as [...]

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2009-2010 College Basketball Season in Review

Posted by deaconcat08 on 8th April 2010

After mourning the Butler loss for a couple of days ago, I received shocking news today that my alma mater, Wake Forest, had fired its head basketball coach Dino Gaudio.  Just when I was about to turn my attention away from hoops for a while, I will now be following the college  basketball coaching carousel for a few weeks.  [...]

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Butler: Greatest Final Four Story of All-Time?

Posted by deaconcat08 on 2nd April 2010

First of all, sorry about the  lack of recent posts on the blog.  The thought of this 96-team tournament has sent me into depression withdrawal.  Be on the look out for my “64 reasons why the 96 team tournament is the worst idea in American history” entry coming in the next few days.  But their is a [...]

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