#ball hogs

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Youth Soccer and Ball Hogs ruing development?

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Power adquiri Rasual Butler do Ball Hogs A equipe do Power, empatada no segundo lugar na BIG3 e procurando reforçar seu elenco para uma corrida aos playoff, adquiriu Rasual Butler, Ball Hogs.

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Big3 Week 5

Com três semanas restando na temporada regular inaugural da BIG3, os playoffs estão começando a se concentrar. (more…)

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Big3 Week 4

O regresso a casa de Allen Iverson na Philadelphia não foi tão bom quanto o planejado, mas a Week 4 da temporada inaugural da BIG3 ainda produziu sua participação em ações de grande sucesso e acabamentos fantásticos. (more…)

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Wow...it’s been a while since I’ve seen selfish play like that from the USWNT...

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One of the most fundamental experiences that we partake in upon this lousy excuse for a spinning top, aside from pooping, is sharing. Not really sharing your toys, though that would likely be appreciated by your peers, but more like sharing yourself. I mean opening up and letting people inside of your existence. (If nothing else, the shmucks you hang around would probably really like to hear that you suck in the same ways they do...but that's another story.)

I know everybody would profess to have higher, more noble motives for the things they do than simple recognition, but seriously, what's the point of doing something awesome if you can't share it? A little good-natured hard-earned (and apparently hyphonated) bragging can be good for the soul and lower your cholesterol. (I'm assuming.) And when things aren't awesome, how are you going to get back to the awesome side you don't let other people help you? You can't cure cancer, and you can't bring LOST back for another season. There are things you can't fix that you are going to have to get through. You know that. I'm just saying, you ought to keep people around that you can lean on while you're walking through that minefield clutching a TV guide from 2010 with your grimy, unkempt hands.

And it's not just about the things you do. What about stories? Don't even get me started! (Or do, it really doesn't matter because I do what I want on here.) When someone tells you a story from when they were little, don't get bored. Don't you DARE yawn or change the subject. That story is personal, and what's more, that story survived the haze that has moved in to cover the bulk of that person's past experiences over the years. The words you're privileged enough to hear have stuck out and made it through enough to get to where it is right at that moment: being re-told and consequently re-born to your ears. Get a hold of those stories you were deemed worthy enough to be a recipient of and learn from them. Listen carefully, because there's a reason it stayed with that individual. They aren't telling you about some random and unimportant event. They are sharing a part of themselves.

With you.

Do you feel lucky yet?

To me, sharing is very personal. I'm not a comparatively open individual. Most people who ask me how I'm doing get a very generalized response. (Well, ____, thanks for asking!)  And in all honesty that's completely fine, because for the most part people who ask aren't looking for more than a canned reply anyways. It takes a lot more than 'Hey, whatsup?' for me to share. For me to brag on something, talk about how I honestly feel, or give an account of an event from the past is probably most similar to braiding the feathers of a chicken. A live chicken. I'll give you a second to really fully picture that.

Moving on.

Even though it's hard for me to do, I see the act of sharing as an act that cements a relationship. It's like taking that proverbial 'next step:' first you laugh at the same joke, next you find things in common, then you share something, and the next thing you know you've got two kids and a mortgage in a suburb outside of Phoenix with a hybrid sputtering in the driveway.

Of course, I exaggerate. (If you've forgotten, I mostly operate in hyperbole. Try to keep up.) But it really is important, if you're looking for meaningful relationships. If you aren't, this site probably isn't going to be much help to you. Sorry not sorry.

In all seriousness, there's something about sharing. Get into it; in an intelligent manner, of course. Don't share with people that don't know you. (Strangers are still dangerous, unless they have candy.) Don't overdo it on your successes, and make sure you leave space for the other guy to share back. Let something really get to you, and then share it. And when you think you're ready, don't just toss yourself at someone offhandedly, be intentional about it. I want you to share the crap out of something. Shoot, share the crap out of yourself, if you're into that. The point is to ultimately get another person in on what you're doing, what you're feeling, where you've been. Artists collaborate, athletes work in teams, successful wolves travel in packs. Take a hint. 

Nobody likes a ball hog.

Kobe.

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Superstars or ball hogs?

Dave Johns wonders why basketball statisticians struggle to separate the sport's superstars from ball hogs.

In his first few games with the New York Knicks, Carmelo Anthony has been everything everyone expected him to be. To admirers, he's putting up the numbers of a legitimate superstar: about 25 points and seven rebounds a game. Detractors see a different Melo: a ball hog who's shooting a meager 42 percent from the field. "I think what Carmelo does is, the more players you have guarding him, the more he wants to shoot. Which is the opposite of what you're supposed to do," says economist Dave Berri, author of several books on sports statistics and player evaluation.