Columns/Features

Green Advice for Green People: Good to Be Bad

April 27, 2011 by

If you are in a fantasy baseball league that isn’t rotisserie style, you’re doing it wrong. That’s just a fact.
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Hoop Dreams: Hollinger’s PER Far From a ‘Total Stat’

April 26, 2011 by

John Hollinger’s Player Efficiency Rating pissed me off more when it was used to prove LeBron was better than Kobe a few years back.
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The 18th Weekly Photo of the Week: “To the Land of Golden Bears”

April 26, 2011 by

Lindsay Gottlieb, head coach of the women’s basketball team this season, announced Monday that she was leaving the program to coach at UC Berkeley. In three seasons at the helm of the Gauchos, Gottl...
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UEFA Champions League Breakdown

April 25, 2011 by

FC Schalke 04 will host Manchester United this afternoon before FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF face off in the semifinal round of the UEFA Champions League Tournament.
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Green Advice for Green People: Don’t Overlook Your League’s Overlooked Talent

April 20, 2011 by

Most fantasy owners don’t trust rookies and other smaller names to be consistent. They are reluctant to use players who have not established themselves as household names, which can be a big mistake...
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’Chos to Kick Off Series v. 49ers

April 20, 2011 by

Hoping to maintain the momentum from Tuesday night’s 15-inning victory over Pepperdine, UCSB will host Big West foe Long Beach State in a three-game series starting today. Long Beach currently stand...
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Speace’s Pieces: Why Do We Play? To Win the Games

April 19, 2011 by

The NBA playoffs come down to two things: wins and losses. When we criticize, analyze and scrutinize every single move of each team, coach and individual player, it is all for naught. The level and st...
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The 17th Weekly Photo of the Week: Time to Dance

April 19, 2011 by

The Gaucho women’s club lacrosse team earned an at-large bid to the WCLA National Championship Tournament in Scottsdale, Arizona. On Wednesday, May 4, the team will face off against No. 10 Universit...
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Hoop Dreams: The Motherlist of All NBA Lists

April 18, 2011 by

I just want to confirm a few things in the NBA that nobody can agree on. This is meant to be the be-all end-all of NBA basketball lists, as the league stands in 2011. Any opinions that sway from the f...
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Surfers Leave the Ocean, Charge Upstream in Indo

April 13, 2011 by

  I have constantly complained to my peers and family that my life is plagued with indecision — I can’t make up my goddamn mind about anything. One of the biggest downsides to that has been m...
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Green Advice for Green People: Not All Underperforming Sluggers Should Be Treated Equally

April 12, 2011 by

One of the most precarious situations for fantasy owners is when he or she has to deal with that player (or players) that they drafted to be the star on their team but started off the season in a funk...
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Speace of Mind: Golf Needs Tiger…for Better or for Worse

April 11, 2011 by

Hearty congratulations to the new owner of the illustrious Green Jacket, but I can’t help but wonder, “What if?”
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Green Advice: It Must Be Baseball Season

April 6, 2011 by

Hello again my loyal readers. I know there are those of you out there who think I’m an idiot, were glad to see me go and are probably reading this wondering what I could possibly have to write about...
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Nuglets of Wisdom: Summer Heat Cools Waves

March 29, 2011 by

At some dreadful point this quarter the waves will start to trickle to a gradual calm until we’ve reached the summer lull, when swells large enough to generate decent surf are a rarity.
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How to Train Your Sports Editor: The Long and Winding Road

March 2, 2011 by

With most classes, the end of the quarter means that it’s time to do a memory wipe of everything you’ve learned in the last 10 weeks. But as I’ve said all quarter long, ESS classes are not like ...
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