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Weekend Read: "Essential Smart Football" on 18/8/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
#nfl +6
If you haven't read it yet, Chris Brown's "Essential Smart Football" -- a collection of his essays on football strategy (including newly revised and all-new material) -- will make you a better (and, yes, smarter) football fan this fall, both for college and NFL. Click here to buy the cheap paperback or even cheaper e-book edition. GET MORE: Brown wrote a smart, short analysis of Matt Barkley's favorite pass play for Grantland. Read it for a better appreciation of what the prohibitive Heisman favorite on one of the nation's Top 3 teams will be doing this year.
'My Goodness!' Today's NBA Summer Porn on 17/9/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
#quickish.tv +5
John Wall(via John Townsend/YouTube) keeping summer alive in the fall with a vicious lefty windmill.
"Spreading the Gospel in Baltimore" on 31/8/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
#kevin durant +9
Summer basketball strips the game to what makes it most infectious in the first place. You may not get team defense and set plays, but what the games lack in complexity that make up for with transparency. Andrew Sharp(via SBNation) , with a first-hand account of last night's thrilling summer showdown between LeBron James and Kevin Durant in Baltimore.
More on Last Night's KD-LeBron Showdown on 31/8/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Sure it’d be great if LeBron won seven titles, but it’d be more impressive if he reversed the stigma associated with male pattern baldness. Beckley Mason(via ESPN.com) , with 10 takeaways -- including this tongue-in-cheek observation that LeBron didn't wear his trademark cover-his-baldness headband -- from last night's wild game in Baltimore between the Goodman League (led by Kevin Durant) and the Melo League (led by Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James and Chris Paul).
From Last Night: Durant, LeBron and Goodman-Melo Highlights on 31/8/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
#kevin durant +11
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NBA Summer Fun: Goodman-Melo Showdown on 30/8/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
#summer +5
Wait, tonight Kevin Durant scored as many points as LeBron and Melo combined? And a players barnstorming tour wouldn't work why exactly? National Post's Bruce Arthur(via Twitter)

Daily Thunder's Royce Young added: "KD's Rucker Park night was certainly legendary, but 59 with LeBron checking him all night? That's INSANE. That's the real deal right there."
Top Goodman-Drew Highlight Reel on 22/8/11 | Tipped by Mike Prada |
#goodman drew +8
(via TheMarsReel.com)

Watch more clips from the game via our Goodman-Drew stream.
Reviewing the Goodman-Drew Game on 21/8/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
#summer +6
The players seemed to find a perfect mix of intensity and nonchalance, creating the broken plays and missed assignments that could be finished with incredible alley-oop dunks without the game ever turning ugly. Beckley Mason(via ESPN.com) , from the scene at DC's Trinity College last night.

For fun video highlights, look directly below.
Top 10 Goodman-Drew Highlights on 21/8/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
#kevin durant +8
(via BallIsLife.com)

More highlights from Jake Langbecker here.
Summer Hoops' Biggest Night, Starring Kevin Durant on 21/8/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
#kevin durant +7
(via YouTube/Quickish) throwing down at the Goodman League (D.C) vs. Drew League (Calif.) showdown.

UPDATE: After the game, Durant tweeted: "GREAT game!!! Shoutout to the Drew League for coming to show us love here in dc!! Hopefully we do it again next year" Durant finished with a game-high 44 points.

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