Posts by Ben Detrick
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Who’s That Guy? Henry Sims!
Should the Sixers continue their plunge toward eternal ignominy, Sims will be immortalized as a valuable tidbit of trivia for sports futility. You can do this, Henry!
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Hold My Coat! Syracuse and Duke, and College Basketball’s Best New Rivalry
The first two conference matchups between the Orange and the Blue Devils have been masterpieces, packed with fantastic individual performances, nerve-racking tension, and controversial conclusions. What were we whining about, again?
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Bow Down to Your New ACC Powerhouse: Syracuse
Jim Boeheim and his instruments of suffocation.
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Don’t Forget About Jerami Grant!
You’ve heard more than enough about this cohort of collegiate freshmen, whose potential greatness has convinced the NBA’s lottery-oriented general managers to infect their own players with West Nile virus. But the sophomore class has a few guys with absurd, freakish, ridiculoid athleticism, too. Meet Jerami “Grantland” Grant, the second-year forward on second-ranked Syracuse, who […]
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We Went There: The Ubiquitous Raekwon and the Festivalization of Art Basel
Much of the East Coast spent last week huddled beneath an onslaught of wintry mix — but down in balmy South Beach, the glaciers of ice were embedded in the lyrics of Raekwon the Chef. See, at Art Basel, the annual art festival that has rippled outward to become a monsoon, the stout Wu-Tang swordsman […]
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So You Want to Attend a Miami Heat Game?
So you want to attend a Miami Heat game, huh? To do it right, you need to dress as if you’re going to the club. Not a pretentious one where suspender-clad mixologists painstakingly measure absinthe in mason jars. More like a place where jeroboams of champagne are ferried to tables by go-go dancers on zip […]
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The Cost of Being Allen Iverson
After the first day of the Memphis Grizzlies’ 2009 training camp, Allen Iverson ate a bag of Doritos and a Styrofoam carton of fried chicken wings in a Birmingham hotel room. The grub came from an eatery called Hong Kong Seafood, a grimy joint where junkies knocked on vehicle windows in search of spare change. […]
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But I Want to Believe! Turning to Vince Gilligan’s Own Words to Debunk the Breaking Bad Finale ‘Dream Theory’
The final episode of Breaking Bad was an exhibition of mechanical precision that would have made the Germans at Madrigal Electromotive GmbH soil their Detlef Schrempf throwbacks. After countless thingamajigs had clicked and whirled, Walter White was afforded a best-case scenario in every possible way: His fortune was passed along to his family, his wife […]
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The Bizarre Brilliance of Andrew Bynum’s Time in Philadelphia
Last week, Andrew Bynum agreed to a deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers. For a 25-year-old All-Star center who won two titles with the Lakers, the terms of Bynum’s incentive-freighted deal are fantastically reasonable: Only $6 million and the first season of the two-year deal are even guaranteed. During the courting and negotiating process, there was […]
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Holiday, Hinkie, Noel, and the Night That Changed the Sixers
For the Sixers, last season was a seeping hell ship. Creaky-kneed center Andrew Bynum dedicated his year to dominating the international flamenco dancing circuit, trade-jettisoned young talent flourished in Orlando, and coach Doug Collins’s proud pursuit of mediocrity ensured a charmless team landed late in the lottery. The lone pinhole of light in the darkness […]
