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During college football season each week DPB’s Kyle Magin and Andrew J. Pridgen pour on the prose with Pints and Picks™. Who to wager and what to drink while doing it. Here, a very special PNP—Viva Las Tournament. By Kyle Magin and Andrew Pridgen AJ, The second… Continue reading Pints and Picks Special Edition: How Sweet the spread is

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Steve Nash announced his retirement in El Segundo Tuesday because apparently he left his wallet there (sorry). During Nash’s 19-year NBA career, he won the MVP twice and broke more ankles than a pair of size-eight rental skates. By Andrew Pridgen Below, 41 facts you don’t know… Continue reading 41 facts you didn’t know about the great Steve Nash

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Hey kids, it’s cool to stay in school. By Andrew Pridgen So your bracket’s fucked, you’re still hungover and nobody listened to you about UCLA. It’s the biggest blue-ball week in all of sports: four days, 48 games, followed by *crickets* and wondering whether now or after… Continue reading 16 Super Seniors of the Sweet 16

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Sometimes, I think parking lots get re-branded as places to go show off your fixie and man-culottes during baseball games just to piss me off. By Andrew Pridgen After the final out of the last Giants game at Candlestick (a 9-4 loss to the Dodgers), home plate… Continue reading As if the San Francisco Giants needed more dickhead fans this happens

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I am biased for the West Coast. I was raised in the Pacific time zone, where Saturday Night is (pre-recorded) Live and Stuart Scott was already flipping his own pillow before he could give holla backs to guys on my squads. By Andrew Pridgen I didn’t learn… Continue reading Why this Tournament is becoming a showcase of West Coast basketball

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Everyone thinks their first kid is smart and I’m no exception. But today, I think he may be a genius. By Andrew Pridgen I figure eventually the truth is revealed. Either you have another, smarter kid and go, “Oh” or you get them to the Thunderdome that… Continue reading When your son spikes a fever opening day of his first-ever Tournament and both of you get to stay home and watch hoops

Originally posted on Death of the Press Box:
During college football season each week DPB’s Kyle Magin and Andrew J. Pridgen pour on the prose with Pints and Picks™. Who to wager and what to drink while doing it. Here, a very special PNP—Viva Las Tournament—starring Kyle Magin as “That Guy’ barely standing like a… Continue reading Pints and Picks Special Edition: It’s Tourneytime in Vegas

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49ers inside linebacker Chris Borland, 24, became the fourth NFL player in his prime this week to announce he was crossing over the chalk line for reasons having nothing to do with any pertinent off-the-field altercation or physical shortcomings on it. By Andrew Pridgen Chris Borland’s retirement… Continue reading Now that’s using your head Chris Borland

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I Google image search you the NIT and up comes pictures of head lice. And that’s the BEST part about you. By Andrew Pridgen I’ve got a carton full of eggs that have been sitting under my bed for three weeks getting nice and rotten for you… Continue reading F*ck you the NIT

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I didn’t know if I’d ever see someone like Bobby Hurley in the NCAA Tournament again. This March, he’s back. By Andrew Pridgen He was the Kid ‘n Play generation’s answer to Maravich—punky and gaunt and off-putting—awkward to the point of believability. When Bobby Hurley initiated his… Continue reading Thanks to a life-changing assist from his brother, Bobby Hurley is back in the Tournament