For the duration of the the NBA Playoffs, Barnstormer regular Alex Wong will be answering questions lobbed at him by the editors. In this, the first installment, Wong talks Amar’e, George Karl, and Durant without Westbrook. Can the return of Amar’e Stoudemire be a good thing for the Knicks? By all accounts, it...
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Friday is here again and much of North America is bathed in the warm, benevolent light of the springtime sun. New beginnings for all, but none newer or bigger than for Jason Collins, whose understated and eloquent announcement that he is gay has brought on a celebration in some corners, and a lot of...
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JEFF GREEN, EX-HOYA, from the same rookie class as Kevin Durant, enters the lane on the left side, on the storied floor of Madison Square Garden. He’s racing, in transition, gives a little hitch step near the elbow. He has New York’s Carmelo Anthony backpedaling. Green goes up strong over Anthony, there, on the...
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FRIDAY NIGHT I WAS FACED with a question I hadn’t thought about in a long time: Why is watching a recorded sporting event considerably less enjoyable than watching the same game live? Despite my paramour’s love of baseball, on our last night together before I left for a week of spring training, we decided...
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A Poem Assembled from Metta World Peace (aka Ron Artest) Quotes I don’t shake substitutions’ hands. I lose my feet. I’d like to thank my psychiatrist. I felt something, But I didn’t know it was an actual head. I knew somebody suffered something at that point. There were a lot of emotions in that...
Read more →Woah. Just…woah. Usually this is the part of The Round Bus where your wayward Barn editor regales you with witty reparte as a way of introducing the week’s roundtable. But, unfortunately, your Barn editor drank all the whiskey in western Quebec last night, and wit and wisdom were left somewhere at the bottom of...
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