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Get to Know Your Futures: Shane Ferguson
Welcome to Get to Know Your Futures, a series of info sessions on the up and comers in the Newcastle United youth system. I'm starting with Shane Ferguson, and will be giving Kazenga LuaLua a look next time around. Then I'll be working through several others throughout the summer. If you have any...
12 Drafts, 4 GMs and 20 Years
It's always tough breaking down how GMs did, especially from different periods of time. Today you not only have youtube and much larger media coverage of prospects, but there are fans dedicated to following the ups and downs of youngsters year round. We're beginning this trek in 1990 when there...
"Our Guys Played Older Tonight" -- Kansas 75 Baylor 65
Young teams don't win games like that. They just don't. They go into half down double-digits, they don't come out on fire in the second, they let one of the best shooting teams in the country get open looks. They turn the ball over a bunch, they freak out at the noise, they disappear for...
Current Islander youth still work in progress
No matter how the Islanders play Edmonton tonight, at the end of the game they will have played half their 2008-09 schedule and nestled themselves into 30th overall. But this Race to the Lottery is by no means over -- and even if it were, our collective insecurity means we can still fear that...
Speed and Youth
As a whole, Gator fans are much more optimistic about this season than they were about the last and the one previous. This season, we know Tebow is not just a goofy looking kid who runs into piles and the offense should score about 30 points a game. The defense is a year older and a year wiser with...
49ers Year-by-Year: 1948
Though the AAFC was proving itself to be a legitimate pro league - with a number of teams capable of playing at an NFL level – and a valid economic competitor with the NFL, it was still struggling. In fact, both leagues had dealt with economic strain from the moment the AAFC came into...
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