Ed Graney
Ed Graney is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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I am a mush. Carlos Condit proved as much again Saturday night.
The history of a college basketball program is not unlike the roads and highways and bridges that join towns from one part of the country to the next. Each link serves its own essential purpose, and often many of the more significant ones are overlooked as time passes.
If there were traffic delays along East Tropicana Boulevard on Wednesday night, it was because President Obama had landed in town or perhaps Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas was trying to divert the accompanying motorcade to Mexico.
My buddy is a big New York Giants fan. He has this thing about Eli Manning. He says there is a Good Eli and a Bad Eli, meaning there are days when the quarterback is the best player on a field and days when he, well, isn’t. Days when he is the difference and days when he disappears. Days when you can’t believe how good he is and days when you don’t even realize he’s there.
The comeback that never happens, but did, still resonates with Curtis Terry years later. He can still see the margin and the clock and the improbable mountain to climb, still see Odartey Blankson score off a rebound, still see Jerel Blassingame make that 3-pointer, still feel himself racing up the court at the end of regulation, receiving the pass and heaving an off-balance 3 toward the rim as the buzzer sounded.
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