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Blogging with the Enemy: Final Four Edition

kj on Apr 3rd 2009

Samuel Greenberg of The Center of the Universe (a UConn-centric blog) suggested exchanging thoughts about our respective teams ahead of tomorrow’s big game.  He’s posted my responses to his questions on his site.  Below, you’ll find his responses to mine.
1. A.J. Price is clearly the guy that drives your offense, but he hasn’t gotten as [...]

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Blogging with the Enemy

kj on Feb 9th 2009

I don’t usually do round tables or Q&As with other bloggers due to the extra time involved.  But regular readers know that Dylan of UMHoops and I have a special relationship, akin to that between the U.S. and Great Britain.  That is, despite a long, and often hostile, relationship between our respective sides, we’ve formed [...]

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Pregame Listening

kj on Dec 3rd 2008

Two experts, of disparate qualifications, pontificate about tonight’s game:
1) Yours truly was invited to talk about the game on Chadd Scott’s “Big Ten All-Access” show at bustersports.com, an on-line sports radio channel.  You can access the audio feed here.  My bit starts at about the 26-minute mark (wait for the feed to fully load).
2) A [...]

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SI’s Grant Wahl Dishes it Up

kj on Nov 19th 2008

Earlier this week, Sports Illustrated released its annual college basketball preview edition.  In conjunction with the release of the preview issue, one of SI’s senior basketball writers, Grant Wahl, was kind enough to allow we to interview him about the upcoming season.
Of all the sports writers in the universe, Mr. Wahl is the one of [...]

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Better Knowing Me

kj on Nov 13th 2008

Patrick Hayes of It’s Just Sports, a Flint Journal blog, asked if I’d be willing to do an interview about the origins of the Spartans Weblog and the upcoming MSU basketball season as part of his blog’s “Better Know a Blogger” series.  Being thrilled whenever anyone other than my mom is interested in what I [...]

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The Big Ten Wonk returns (briefly)

kj on Oct 13th 2008

Having now killed six months since the last college basketball game was played, I am now completely out of anything new or original to say about the Michigan State basketball team.  Thankfully, a very special guest has agreed to offer up his preseason thoughts to the Spartans Weblog faithful and get this season started in [...]

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