• #gregoden

    Greg Oden Needs To Come Back Soon

    Greg Oden, honestly, you can't back to the NBA fast enough. We're not sure what's going on with his hair here, but we still love it. We fully expect to run into Oden at, like, half the parties we go to.
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    Greg Oden's a funny guy. Come back soon, Greg. [GameTap]

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    Oden, The Day After

    Portland might be the place where indie rockers go to die, but it's certainly a very sad place still today, in the wake of Greg Oden's devastating medical diagnosis. More »
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    Greg Oden's Ancient Knee Goes Into The Shop

    We find the fact that Greg Oden is going to miss the entire 2007-08 season very depressing news, and boy, doesn't that make us unique. The worst part about it, as anyone who has read his blog at Yardbarker, he's a likable, upfront guy for whom it's difficult not to root for. More »
  • #thenewgenerationisingoodhands

    Greg Oden is Exceedingly Likeable

    Today's issue of the Oregonian includes a revealing feature on Blazers rookie Greg Oden. Joe Freeman does an excellent job conveying his subject's personality to the reader and even the Buckeye hater in me can't help but lighten up. It's not the first article to praise the young star but it does cover a wide range of topics from money and family all the way to playoff expectations. Follow the jump for an excerpt. More »
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    Greg Oden Can Only Improve On His Foul Trouble From Here

    I knew there was an underlying reason notable tall dude Greg Oden went to the NBA after one year in college. It couldn't have been just the money, or the chance to be picked No. 1 overall. No, It had to be for the NBA rule that you foul out after six, not five like in college. Or maybe it was the all-too-enticing summer league, where you foul out after ten. More »
  • #nbadraft

    Look! NBA Draft Analysis!

    Obviously, the Internets are gonna be buzzing all day today with draft analysis and all that dirty business, and everyone's gonna be telling you who the winners and losers were after a night where nothing other than the reading of names happened. More »
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    Yet Another Great Reason To Live In Portland

    Before we talk about the disappointment of all the teams who didn't win the first or second pick in last night's NBA Draft Lottery, let's look at the team that did win, the Portland Trail Blazers. (The official favorite team of Henry Abbott at True Hoop, who was at the lottery last night and, amusingly, is only a month-plus into his ESPN tenure and is already praising the free buffets.) CNBC's Darren Rovell crunches the numbers and finds the Trail Blazers' good fortune is going to net them about $6.3 million next year alone. More »
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    Sometimes, You Forget Your Own Age. It Happens.

    As we've mentioned before, soon to be No. 1 or No. 2 overall pick Greg Oden was the first human to spring fully formed from the womb, with a beard. And if his interview with "ESPN First Take" — it's like "Cold Pizza," only with a less dumb but more pointless name! And it's not in New York anymore! — yesterday is to be believed, he really is about 40 years old. More »
  • #collegebasketball

    Looking To The Past To Overcome The Present

    Now that Florida has won its second national title in a row, everybody's an amateur historian — which is good, because sports would be no fun if it has professional historians. The big question: Are the Gators one of the best teams ever? The answer of course is that there is no answer, which is why we ask the question; there aren't any more games to watch for a while, so we have to discuss theoreticals. More »
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    Hey, The Couch Is Better Than Atlanta. Totally.

    If you're one of those Frank Rich-obsessed souls who read the TimesSelect column, you already know this, but if not, we should make this clear before we start talking about the Final Four: We did not make it to Atlanta. Because Peter King is the only person left on earth who doesn't recognize that it's boring to read about someone else's travel issues, we'll just say the practice of overselling tickets — and booting people with guaranteed seats — is an affront to humanity and that Continental Airlines is a bad airline, yes, yes, a bad airline indeed. After 24 hours at Newark Liberty Airport (or Freedom Airport, or whatever the hell they're calling it now), trying to find a flight, any flight, that would send us to Atlanta, we gave up and watched Saturday's games from our couch in Brooklyn. We could lament that we missed an opportunity to see our first Final Four because of a greedy, outdated airline policy, but we won't. We have long espoused the theory that watching a game at home is often just as enjoyable, if not more so, than watching it in person, so we shan't whine too much about it. From now on. More »
  • #ncaatournament

    The Final Four Open Thread

    I'm afraid I won't be with you for tonight's basketball festivities — I decided to try actually watching a game without a keyboard in front of me. I don't know what that's going to be like, but I've heard it's wild. More »
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    Mock Drafts Are Of No Interest To Joey Dorsey

    Memphis forward Joey Dorsey does not share the popular view that Greg Oden is very good at basketball. Dorsey intends to show the world tonight that Greg Oden is, for lack of a better word, his bitch. More »
  • #collegebasketball

    Xavier Fans Haven't Forgiven Greg Oden

    If you were wondering whether or not Xavier fans had gotten over that whole Greg Oden pounding a guy to the floor business, the guy who runs the blog Free Xavier makes it clear that, uh, they're not. More »
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    The Violent Side Of Greg Oden

    While Tennessee and Virginia look to be going down to the wire, I thought we'd take a second and look back at yesterday's man-sized non-flagrant foul by Greg Oden. He always looks like a man amongst boys out there, but yesterday, with Ohio State needing to take a quick foul, he looked like Godzilla rampaging through a Japanese fishing village. More »
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    College Hoops Compendium: UCLA Is Kinda Good

    • (2) UCLA 73, (12) Arizona 69. UCLA's now lost three straight Pac-10 games for the first time since Lute Olson's hair was... actually, I think that guy was born with a full head of shiny silver hair. It may actually just be a chrome plate at this point. UCLA didn't even have Luc Richard Mbah a Moute for this one, making it all the more impressive. More »
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    The Greg Oden World Domination Tour Rolls On

    I won't be here to share it with you, I'm afraid, but there are a couple of pretty noteworthy games on the college basketball schedule this afternoon. Greg Oden and Joakim Noah get it on as #3 Ohio State visits #4 Florida at 4:00 on CBS, and then at 4:30 on ESPN2, Bob Knight has a chance to become the NCAA's all-time winningest coach with a win over Bucknell. More »
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    Greg Oden Begins To Earn His Reputation At 4 p.m.

    Bad news for you, Calum MacLeod and Urule Igbavoa. Valparaiso's big men are going to have to deal with Greg Oden today, the greatest center in college basketball history that has never actually played a game. It was originally thought that Ohio State center wasn't going to be available until after Christmas, but he's gotten the go-ahead to take the floor today. More »
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    Greg Oden Is The Only Person Wearing Pants

    It's a while, still, until Greg Oden will suit up for Ohio State, and just another year after that until he can reap the fruits of life in the NBA. Until then, however, we cordially welcome him to the world of "Careful Who's Got A Digital Camera At A Party" that awaits him in professional sport. More »