Tich’s Take

Sadly, this is the last edition of Tich’s Take ever. Unfortunately, I do not get a farewell tour like Derek Jeter, but I do have this last bit of space in the paper, so let’s do this thing. Ever since I hit “publish” on my first blog post when I was 14, writing my own column in a newspaper was […]

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NBA Playoffs Wild, Wild West

Ranking the contenders in the NBA’s best conference T-8. Oklahoma City Thunder/New Orleans Pelicans It is a shame only one of these teams can make the playoffs (editor’s note: neither team had clinched a spot at the time of publication) because Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis are two of the best tickets in the NBA. It is a testament to […]

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Tich’s Take

This is officially ridiculous. It has been officially ridiculous for a while now, actually. The NBA playoffs are about the start and two teams with winning records will be sitting at home watching three teams with losing records play instead. I know we live in a world where someone named Snooki was famous once, but that still does not make […]

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Tich’s Take

The Most Valuable Player (MVP) award has always meant more in the NBA than in all other American professional sports. Baseball essentially has four MVPs per season (American League and National MVP and Cy Young awards). Wayne Gretzky might still be getting the Hart Trophy (the NHL’s MVP award) every year. And football gave an MVP to a kicker one […]

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Tich’s Take

Revenge of the nerds — this is what NBA legend Charles Barkley thinks is happening to the NBA. On “Inside the NBA,” the studio pregame and postgame show that accompanies TNT’s NBA broadcasts, Barkley had some interesting things to say about the use of statistics and analytics in basketball. “I’ve always believed analytics is crap,” Barkley said. “It’s just some […]

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Tich’s Take

There is not a set-in-stone formula to building a successful NFL team, but one position is universally regarded as the most important — quarterback. The quarterback is a coach on the field, the face of the team. Everybody follows his direction. The head coach and quarterback need to become one mind, engineering the team to victory. And with every spectacular […]

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