Tag: Lang Whitaker
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Lang’s World: Much like gardening, Grizz Gaming’s growth predicated on patience, perseverance 7.24.18
We have as good a chance as anyone to make the playoffs. And while there are certainly some competing teams that could lose here or there to enhance our chances, there’s really only one thing we can control: Our play.
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Lang’s World: Essential travel tips help get Grizz Gaming through road-weary NBA 2K League season
Here are my failsafe tips for traveling, with a few thrown in from the Grizz Gaming guys. Ignore them at your own peril…
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Lang’s World: Grizz Gaming Eager To Build On Solid Start 5.17.18
The Pacers were swarming the ball, looking for a steal, so the Grizz Gaming guys whipped the ball around, finding open players, before the ball ended up in the hands of one of our guards, Threat, who was standing all alone on the left wing. There were still eight seconds left on the shot clock…
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Lang’s World: Valuable Lessons In Winning and Losing 5.10.18
I’ve thought a lot about winning lately, especially in the context of sports. My son is five years old, and recently began playing in his first youth sports leagues. A few weeks ago, he scored his first goal in a soccer match – a thunderbolt from 20 yards out, like he was Zlatan or someone.
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Lang’s World: How the Whitakers body-slammed WrestleMania 34 into a family event 4.12.18
“Can we watch RAW?” my wife asked me Monday night, just minutes after we’d put our son to bed.
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Lang’s World: A solemn farewell to sensational ‘Starbury’ 3.29.18
MEMPHIS – At the beginning, we never really considered the end. We just wanted to get a dog. When we first met, her name was Star. We eyed each other through the wire grate on her cage, on what was basically death row of the dog shelter in East Harlem.
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Lang’s World: Ten Pearls of Whitaker’s wit and wisdom on sports and beyond 3.15.18
I was preparing dinner Sunday night, when I realized the clock — newly set-forward! — had ticked past 5:00 p.m., which meant the NCAA Tournament Selection Show was airing on TBS. Which also meant that within minutes, my phone started blowing up with requests to join about a dozen different bracket pools.
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Lang’s World: Ten pearls of Whitaker’s wit and wisdom on sports and beyond 3.8.18
The sun may still mostly be playing hide and seek with us, especially for our friends in the Northeast, but the good news is winter is losing its fight with spring. And there was no surer sign of this than a few weeks ago, when pitchers and catchers reported for work at Major League Baseball…
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Lang’s World: Ten Pearls of Whitaker’s Wit and Wisdom on Sports and Beyond 3.1.18
This year’s NBA All-Star Game turned out to be compelling and interesting, unlike several of the games we’ve had the last few seasons. I’ve actually found myself thinking about the last play of the 2018 game — a defensive stop around the three-point line with arguably the best three-point shooter of all time trying to…
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Lang’s World: Ten Pearls of Whitaker’s wit and wisdom on sports and beyond 2.15.18
To help spice up the Winter Olympics moving forward, Lang Whitaker has some creative ideas that include a twist that could turn the HalfPipe competition upside down … just for your viewing pleasure.