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PAN shAM Team Thoughts

rtmsf — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:16:13 +0000

As we mentioned yesterday, Team USA’s Pan Am squad got off the plane in Rio and promptly found itself down 0-2 with losses to Uruguay and Panama, which effectively ended any chance for a medal at the tournament. Let’s say that again – Uruguay… and… Panama. If you thought losing to Serbia was bad… Uruguay? This small nation of 3.3M people stuck somewhere in South America between Brazil and Argentina is best known in hoops circles for putting only one player in its history, Ernesto Batista (Atlanta Hawks), into the NBA. As for [...]

Monday Thoughts

rtmsf — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:09:48 +0000

A few different thoughts today, but none enough for its own post:

Circling back to the Donaghy saga, TrueHoop uncovered an academic paper on the NBA by a Stanford undergrad named Jonathan Gibbs that echoes the findings of the Wharton study on college basketball by Prof. Justin Wolfers that we mentioned last week. In summary, Gibbs found that there are a number of statistical outlier NBA games each season where heavy favorites beat the spread less often than they should, which, when controlled for confounding factors, is suggestive of pointshaving. This certainly comports with our prior stance that it happens more often than we all think. It seems that the [...]

Fast Breaks 07.16.07

rtmsf — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:16:16 +0000

For some reason, we don’t recall summers growing up as this boring…

Mizzou players Kalen Grimes (accused of assault with a shotgun in, of all places, a Jack in the Box) and DeMarre Carroll (shot in the ankle outside a nightclub) were involved in separate incidents within five days of each other. Mike Anderson’s honeymoon is apparently over in Columbia. Bad Luck in Durham: Duke’s Brian Zoubek broke his foot in a pickup game; and Demarcus Nelson broke his wrist at the Pan Am trials within the last week. No word on whether Greg Paulus’s mishap with autoerotic asphyxiation will [...]