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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- I was gonna entitle this piece “What I Didn’t Do on My Summer Vacation.” Normally at this time of year I always write a “From the Swamp” about playing pickups hoops with the same bunch of geezers at 7:00AM while on vacation in Stone Harbor, NJ. As I mentioned on the MB...

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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – - Lots of stuff in the news these days and surprisingly enuf, some of it is actually basketball related: -- “The Greatest AAU Team Ever” sounds like so much hype, but in the case of the All Ohio Red 17-and-under squad featuring Juwan Staten, Jared Sullinger,...

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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) – - The Meadows family is headed to Stone Harbor, NJ for a week of fun in the sun (and for me, early morning pickup hoops). Before I go, I thought I would leave you with a few thoughts: -- Continuing a longstanding “From the Swamp” tradition, the new recruits have...

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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Passions. Everybody has got at least one…or maybe four or five. The fact of the matter is that there is a natural limit to how many things for which one individual can truly feel “passionately.” By definition, a ‘passion’ requires a major investment of time and...

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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- Now that July is upon us, the University of Dayton’s Class of 2010 basketball recruiting will really start to get interesting. For one thing, BG and staff can once again hit the road to evaluate players during their AAU season after sitting on the sidelines for the month...

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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- On the day when Wacko Jacko and Farah Fawcett both bit the big one, let us pause and reflect. Okay, enuf of that nonsense, on to the links: -- Jamal Richards’ We Fly High Ballers blog with some updates on UD recruiting targets Roy Marble, Jr., Anthony Fields,...

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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) –- It’s nice to have Doug Harris at the DDN back blogging about BG’s Boys, after a one month absence. His latest entry deals with unofficial visits from Brandon Spearman and Cameron Wright: ...

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DAYTON (OH) -- As most of you know, John Mad Dog Churan has been tackling multiple myeloma, a form of cancer that screws up your blood and brings you closer to religion not unlike other forms of cancer. Mad Dog has been corresponding with WHIO's Steve Kerrigan, a fellow patriot of the...

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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) –- I got more links for ya than a sausage factory…here they are, hot off the grill: -- From The Washington Post here is the cautionary tale of Lance Stephenson, voted this year’s “Toxic HS Hoops Recruit” by “From the Swamp”: ...

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BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- A recent post in the “Off-Topic Jibberish” section of the UD Pride MB entitled “UD West Campus” got my feeble little mind to thinking: most people on here (especially the ladies) have no idea what “West Campus” was or any concept of what it was like to live there. I...