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Hello Sonics Fans. I’m here to let you know our plans for this great site.
When we first brought this site into the SB Nation network it seemed like the NBA was about to make its grand return to your great city. I was thrilled to work with Brian and Kevin to integrate this community into our larger network of sites covering the NBA and was excited to have the best Sonics site in the world as part of our family.
I don’t need to tell you how that played ou...
From Sonics Rising
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Golf is alive and well in Myrtle Beach as this is one of the only outdoor sports which requires no group participation to have fun and where fist pumps (not necessarily "bumps") are the norm!
According to an email that I received, there are a few tips which golfers (and all of us) can practice to avoid the spread of Coronavirus - COVID-19.
Golf Tips to Minimize Exposure and Spread of Coronavirus (aka COVID-19):
At tee boxes, fairways and
greens, practice "social distancing" by kee...
From Golf for Beginners
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PGA Tour connects with ViacomCBS, Comcast/NBC Sports Group, The Walt Disney Company’s ESPN+
- TOUR will significantly expand its content offerings. LPGA will also receive
expanded exposure.
In my experience, golf beginners are so absorbed with all aspects of the game that they tend to flip to every event they can find, whether it be on television, or on the web. As you become more of a player, experience tends to lend itself more towards playing the game and watching the higher-level tourna...
From Golf for Beginners
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By now, most fans interested in Tiger Woods Masters menu already know what the Cablinasian is serving...does it make you hungry?
FYI...As defined by Wiktionary.org, " Cablinasian (plural Cablinasians) (rare, of Tiger Woods) A person who is Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian."
The Champions dinner is a mix of sushi and sashimi, fajitas with possible milkshakes for dessert - that's fish, meat, and vegetables with a slider of milk at the end of the meal to coat the stomach ...
From Golf for Beginners
| almost 6 years ago
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Quora.com is a question and answer site that receives between 3,000 to 5,000 questions every day, so Golf for Beginners gathered a few of the frequently asked golf questions for our readers. Whether you are a beginner or have been playing golf your entire life, you will be interested in the responses.
You may think these are all basic questions but how many of you actually know all the answers?
5 Frequently Asked Golf Questions from Quora.com (click the links to...
From Golf for Beginners
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Golf for Beginners enjoys being objective about all news and wonders about the validity of some claims, so today we briefly review the infractions and conversations over Patrick Reed - is he really a villain? Did he break the rules in the 11th bunker at the Hero World Challenge?
Michael Bamberger, on Golf.com , stated yesterday that, until " Reed owns his rules blunder, he will remain hard to root for..."
Here is the video which alleges the rules violation that Patrick Reed has, indeed, ...
From Golf for Beginners
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SB NATION NBA BLOGGERS’ STATEMENT REGARDING RECENTLY ANNOUNCED CHANGES FOR CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS:
We are the bloggers. SB Nation calls us “ Community Insiders .” Deadspin has referred to us as an “ Army of Exploited Workers .” We call ourselves fans.
For almost 15 years, team site bloggers have been the passionate heartbeat of SB Nation. That heart skipped a beat when most of us learned along with the general public that Vox Media/SB Nation planned to terminate their independe...
From Sonics Rising
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2005 — 2019 | Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
PLAY IT PRETTY Everyone wants to be free. That’s what this country’s all about.
—Ronnie Van Zant
It started as a joke, because “Free Bird” was the song rednecks loved to play when doing super redneck things, things you hoped weren’t contagious but wanted to try anyway. It is the song played in the documentary The Dancing Outlaw, while Jessco White and his friends party and drunkenly tear up someone’s front yard in a car doing donuts un...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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ON CLARITY
You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That’s, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game — life or football — the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half step too late or too early you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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THIS IS YOUR FAULT FOR DONATING MONEY TO CHARITY YOU MONSTERS ME: Wow, I’m really proud of the Every Day Should Be Saturday community. I put out a request last week, and everyone really stepped up. Five straight days of donations, and ultimately, they raised over nine thousand dollars to support mental health services in Southern Indiana, and-
[clattering of claws on wood floor as someone shimmies out from under bed]
HOLLY: I’m sorry to support WHAT
ME: oh hey Holly, I didn’t know ...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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Happy Friday!
We’ve reached the end of our week-long drive to support mental health services in Southern Indiana, and you’ve put up some huge numbers. I’ll say it again: I’m deeply appreciative of this community, your generosity, and your commitment to weird numbers.
The link is still live, please donate or share if you haven’t already, and thank you from the bottom of my heart. You’ve put up some big numbers on the scoreboard, and I love that.
Because, fundamentally, when it comes to fo...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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THE MICHIGAN MONEY CANNON TAKES RETURN FIRE When we get charitable around here, we expect certain things.
You’re going to step up in a big way.
You’re going to use some clever numerology in how you make donations.
Somehow, Michigan is going to end up on top.
Through the first day, that bore out — our largest Monday donation was made in honor of Michigan’s 40-34 win over Ohio State in Brady Hoke’s first year.
Now, there’s been some volleys overnight — big shots from Texas A&M, Louisia...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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I’ll make this brief: y’all are great.
Yesterday, in the third day of our charity drive to support Personal Counseling Services of Southern Indiana, the numbers understandably slowed for much of the day, after a blazing start on Monday and Tuesday.
And then came the bombs.
A couple BIG evening donations, capped late by a $666 donation with only the comment “Run up the score three times as much as Heisman on Cumberland”.
I can only infer that our new champion — current leader for the Ga...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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Photo by Gregg Forwerck/Getty Images
Join Tod Leiweke at the BeerHall in Queen Anne July 18, 5-8pm
Join us tomorrow at Queen Anne Beerhall for a Toast to the Fans with #NHLSeattle CEO Tod Leiweke and a special guest. Details → https://t.co/KOLuXSn1AB pic.twitter.com/ZhTkqyZPtU — NHL Seattle (@NHLSeattle_) July 17, 2019
Tod Leiweke has invited fans to celebrate tomorrow afternoon at 5pm as NHL Seattle prepares for a major milestone, the hiring of their first team staffer. The...
From Sonics Rising
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WE’RE RUNNIN’ THE DANG BALL AND PROTECTING THIS LEAD Good morning! We’re entering Day 3 of our charity drive to support Personal Counseling Services of Southern Indiana.
A brief recap of what we’re here for, in case you’re landing on this for the first time (quoting myself):
I want to speak to you about a non-profit that’s personally dear to me. For the last three years or so, I’ve been working with Personal Counseling Services, a small mental health organization located in Southern Indi...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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Welcome back!
I’ll make this brief: you’re all doing great, with — at the time of posting this, $4,320 raised to support the efforts of Personal Counseling Services to provide mental health services to underserved communities in Southern Indiana.
And we have a new leader!
Some intrepid Person of Michigan has donated $403 to the campaign. The fundraising website doesn’t display cents, unfortunately, but “Brady Hoke’s Revenge! Go Blue” makes me suspect it’s a donation of $403.40, in rememb...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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“The same principles that make [Seattle Center Arena] brilliant for hockey will make it brilliant for music and will make it brilliant for the NBA. We will have a huge welcome mat out for the NBA when they’re ready but again, we’re never going to get in front of the league.”
“They’re well aware of what we’re doing and we’re ensuring that it’s not only compliant with NBA standards but well above those standards.” - Tod Leiweke - Forbes
When I first heard that the 2019 NHL draft would be...
From Sonics Rising
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Some major football powers are built upon their ability to monopolize in-state recruiting. Over at SB Nation I have a piece examining Mack Brown’s early moves at UNC to try and build out the Tar Heel football program to be remotely as competitive as their basketball team. It’s pretty obvious that the major impediment to UNC being great at football is the fact that they seem pretty content as a basketball power. The school is very well situated to be better t...
From Football Study Hall
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“I feel that by the way you live your life people will know who you are and what you’re about.” - Lenny Wilkens
Word broke early this morning that the Lenny Wilkens Foundation will be closing after a final dinner event this August, prompting a look back at the storied career and contributions of a local legend. For more insight about this news make sure to read these great articles by KING5’s Chris Daniels and Percy Allen of the Seattle Times .
Wilke...
From Sonics Rising
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The zone-read play has come a long ways since it was originally developed as a way to run the ball from the shotgun spread and gave that formation legitimacy in the college game. Once teams realized they could run the option from the shotgun spread and use the spacing of the receivers to create space in the alley, then teams begin to build run-centric systems from the zone-read play.
Like with other major tactics within the spread offense, the zone-read inevit...
From Football Study Hall
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Cutting edge defensive coordinators like Brent Venables have been building their defenses around mobile hybrids that can relocate to wherever offenses try to create space and run/pass conflicts with hybrid tight ends. The defining feature of a given offense tends to be what they do at the inside receiver positions. Everyone plays skill athletes on the perimeter that are aiming to beat cornerbacks 1-on-1 in space when they get the opportunity, even if differ...
From Football Study Hall
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A reoccurring theme in the NBA playoffs these days is the selective non-guarding of specific players. Ever since the San Antonio Spurs picked on Dwayne Wade in back to back NBA Finals , offensive players that can’t shoot have become a resource for defenses trying to figure out how to stop superstars like Steph Curry, LeBron James, or James Harden with help defense.
Spread out defenses in football have similar options to turn to in order to try and handle th...
From Football Study Hall
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Departed friend Mike Baker and the SonicsRising Staff in 2014
Mike Baker was a fixture at Sonics Rising for years and before that he was one of the founding members at SonicsCenral.com. Mike was one of the Unsung heroes of the Save Our Sonics movement, dedicating a ton of time writing, organizing and just being a damn good friend when I needed somebody to talk to. I remember spending hours on the phone with Mike contemplating ways to thwart Clay Bennett and just venting about it all.
Mi...
From Sonics Rising
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Lots of green and gold activities around town this weekend as faithful fans celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Sonic’s championship season.
I plan on making my way out to see Gary Payton at 1pm this afternoon at Simply Seattle . As always I’m tremendously appreciative and supportive of new supporters of the cause like Simply Seattle and the Bring Em Back movement and especially love seeing them partner with OG Sonics supporters like KJR and Sonicsgate. In addition to having the Glove out ...
From Sonics Rising
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This offseason Gary Patterson has quietly been assembling the staff and players to infuse his program with the one offensive tactic that has always given him fits. The greatest rivalry of the early 2010s in the Big 12 was the one between Gary Patterson’s TCU and Art Briles’ Baylor. It was an annual showdown between the state’s brightest offensive and defensive minds, played out through a pair of private schools largely considered as afterthoughts in th...
From Football Study Hall
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