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Boy, Do I Miss Pickup Basketball!
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- The COVID-19 pickup basketball quarantine quagmire has been going on for roughly 6 months now. While gyms are starting to reopen in some states and rims are being reinstalled in a few playgrounds, the question as to whether “To hoop or not to hoop?” remains up in the air. ...
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09-08-2020 02:37 PM
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A Cameo, A Video and A Bunch of GIFS
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Regular readers of this space will note that “FTS” on occasion will run a piece with nothing but GIF animations in it. Given that there are other forms of videos available, the thought was to expand our horizons a tad to include some of them.
The first is a cameo.
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08-27-2020 09:02 AM
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How I Used To Spend My Summer Vacation
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Every family has its own summertime vacation tradition. Or, more precisely given these crazy COVID times, we used to have a go-to warm weather getaway. Long before my wife and I and the Swampettes made the Joisey Shore our annual destination, back when I was just a...
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08-15-2020 03:26 PM
by NJFlyr71
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Of Studs, Signees, Scribes and Showbiz
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Mighty thankful for the hoopful diversion that TBT is providing in this long, hot summer of our discontent. Without baseball and the up-in-the-air status of college and pro football, the NBA and even our beloved college hoops, seeing the former Flyers + 2 in the Final...
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07-25-2020 08:00 PM
by Swampy Meadows
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Easy GIFin'
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Summertime and the GIFin’ is easy. Fish are jumpin’ and the COVID is high. A few visual delights to help pass the time while we wait for the Red Scare, the UD alum entry in TBT to (hopefully) begin basketball battle in Columbus in 2 weeks.
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06-23-2020 02:39 PM
by Swampy Meadows
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Twenty Years
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Way back in June of 2000, “From the Swamp” was unleashed upon an unsuspecting public on the old FlyerHoops.com message board. The two guys who ran the site, Greg Bilotta and Joe Lombardi, were desperate for some actual content beyond a bunch of Flyer fans peppering their...
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06-06-2020 10:30 AM
by Swampy Meadows
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Some Good News At Last
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Finally! The announcement that PG Elijah Weaver will be transferring from Aunt Becky University to the University of Dayton brought some welcome news to a bedraggled Flyer Faithful. 2020 has not been our friend and knowing that an able-bodied replacement is in the fold...
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05-26-2020 02:59 PM
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We Don't Know What We Don't Know
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- So enuf already about “The Last Dance” Swamp, what’s up with the UD Flyers? In that regard, there is only one thing for certain:
We don’t know what we don’t know
Heck, you can say that about life in general these days, right? So many things we have always...
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05-08-2020 11:04 AM
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MJ and The Last Dance, Part 2
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- We are 60% thru the ESPN/Netflix doc “The Last Dance” and the 10 part chronicle of the Chicago Bulls’ final championship season continues to deliver for a sports starved American audience. And with such national attention a lot has been written and said about the film....
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05-04-2020 08:56 PM
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MJ and The Last Dance
BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- In 1984 I was working for Group W Radio Sales as an advertising account executive here in Detroit. One of the stations that Westinghouse Broadcasting owned and that GWRS represented was WIND, a 5,000 watt station located at 560 on the AM dial. WIND was a talk station...
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04-24-2020 12:22 PM
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