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Geno’s Rim Revision? Ridiculous!

UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma has suggested that offensive deficiencies are keeping the women’s game from growing. His solution? Lower the rims to nine feet. I have to applaud him for making one of the dumbest practical suggestions in years from someone who’s listened to.

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Improving Foul Shot Distractions

One aspect of basketball games really bugs me: the amateurish attempts to distract foul shooters. It’s shameful how a partisan crowd, especially university crowds, are unable to get their act together to enact some sort of coordinated plan to distract opponent foul shooters. Shameful.

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Dumber Than You Think, Smarter Than I Think

It’s a weird sort of life when people think you’re smart. When they don’t know something, they rely on your track record of being right about things a lot of the time. When they feel they have a leg up and you don’t agree with them, then clearly you don’t have a clue.

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