Tag: Lang’s World
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Lang’s World: Grizz Gaming season two was a journey worth taking
It was 3:22 in the morning and I was lying in bed, wide awake. The primary reason for my discontent was because in my mind I was facing a hard truth: I knew the Grizz Gaming season was probably over. We had just finished our regular season at 9-7, the best record in franchise history.…
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Lang’s World: Grizz Gaming, the grind never stops
Despite having some bye weeks built into our schedule this season, the NBA 2K League has remained a grind. But what makes it worth the grind is getting results, which is exactly what’s happened with Grizz Gaming this season. Today we sit at 5-6, in 13th place out of 21 teams, just one loss out…
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Lang’s World: How Soccer Explains the 901
Just over a decade ago, I decided that it was time to bet big on soccer. I was working as an editor at SLAM, the world’s leading basketball magazine, and the company that owned us was always looking for different publishing avenues to explore.
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Lang’s World: Always Changing
This is a hard but true fact of life. As much as we crave constancy, the world around us is always changing, and sometimes we have to change, as well. It isn’t always easy, it isn’t always fun, but change is going to happen, with or without you.
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Lang’s World: We’re Ready for Season 2
Now that we’re into 2019, the season two draft is just a few weeks away. I’m assembling my crew and getting ready to put in hours scouting and prepping for the season two draft. Season one was not easy, but going through it taught me a ton, about myself, about my team, and about the…
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Lang’s World: Ready For The Ride
While this season’s Grizzlies team and coaching staff is mostly new, Gasol remains the same, averaging about 16 points and boards, knocking down a few threes per game, and playing free safety for one of the NBA’s most stingy defenses. The 2018-19 season still has a ways to go, but Marc Gasol seems ready for…
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Lang’s World: Why the College Football Playoff needs to change
The best thing about this year’s College Football Playoff is that it has proven plainly that the College Football Playoff needs to change. At least, if you want to have some fun.
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Lang’s World: The future of Memphis Tigers football? It’s complicated
If you are a Memphis Tigers football fan, what is it that you want? Before we get to the answer, in this case we need to examine the question, which is self-explanatory, really: What’s the goal? This is also a good catch-all consideration for life, I suppose, but more than that it’s important for University…
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Lang’s World: UGA shows they’re good, not great, not yet
The University of Georgia Bulldogs are one of the four best college football teams in the country. But at the same time, I do not think they deserve to be in the college football playoffs. As great as UGA has been this season, they’ve also never reached their full potential and haven’t played consistently great,…
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Lang’s World: Let’s take a ride on the coaching carousel
In a sport where the players don’t get paid, all that money has to go somewhere, and most of it seems to go to hiring and firing coaches. And if you listen real closely, you can hear the coaching carousel beginning to spin.