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A National Media Spurs-Analysis Template: It's become so expected of the national media to neglect the Spurs that I thought I would put down a universal template for all national organizations to...

Bill Simmon's recent piece on Grantland.com is revisionist and misguided, but what else do you expect from an ignorant fan who just happens to be an entertaining writer?

In an interview Andre Royo, the actor who played Bubbles on The Wire, was asked about some of the things he learned on the set. His answer left an impression with me. He said that the creator,...

Last night was Manu's game to win would he not have a spiral fracture in his hand that requires surgery to install more hardware than my complicated locking mechanism designed to protect my Takis...

Last night, after the kid is in bed and I've done my daily duties as a man of Texas: wash dishes, sweep, pick up random sock clusters like so many wounded pedestrians, I got to sit down for a Spurs...

I want to make a case in favor of the Spurs winning the series, in spite of the warning signs, the Memphis 1st Round Championships T-shirts, and the nagging suspicion that our guys have nothing...

What happens the day 21 doesn't suit up in black, silver, and white?  Does it get any better for a sports fan than it has in the last 15 years?  I recently told a friend that I worry about my...

The following email/letter/message was found by the PtR Department of Reclamation & Re-use which finds items of note in the flotsam of the interwebs, and posts them when the tone approximates...

I'm on a careful contact high from the recent Spurs win.  I feel really good about this Spurs team sans any injury, yet I hope our peak days are still ahead and not behind.  And considering Tim...

It's another DTOUR. Here's my author forward for Achieve! Success without Being Successful, my self-published, self-help guide.

First off, I know you got offers out there Lebron: big offers with currency so strange I couldn't even guess the historical person on it: Taft? Coolidge? But to that I say: money is a tool to be...

Nash has this move, where he dribbles the ball to the wing or corner, hands it off then does a sort of jump-screen into the off defender.  It's the exact definition of a moving screen, but I don't...

    First off: NYC has a feel in which it belongs to no nation.   At our hotel, on every elevator ride, and even in the street we were surrounded by a different language, and while that...

The playoffs are upon us. I'm excited but I still have to get through two days of the 8 hour grind. Here is some randomness that helped me get through a workday last week. It was rejected by...

I enjoyed the first Thread of Utter Randomness so much that I thought I would start my own. I don't even know if I have permission to do this. But logical thinking has never saved me before. ...

  Feeling good about you today?  Is all right with the free world?  Remedy that rainbow in your gullet by gulping an ice cold Pop-Juice: your ultimate drink when you need a cold hard dash of...

In the 4th grade city championships in Amarillo Texas, circa 1989, we were getting our butts handed to us.  A kid by the name of Matt Webb, the best player on our team, looked us over during a...

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