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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- Here’s the thing about Anthony Bourdain: like many of the foods he sampled in his worldwide travels, Bourdain was himself, an acquired taste. He wore an almost constant goofy smirk that initially made one’s douche meter start to register, but then he gradually pulled...

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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- These right here are what you call the “dog days of the off-season.” Not a whole lot happening on the Flyer basketball front, altho AG is headed north of the border to assist Bill Self in coaching the USA Under 18 Team and then the UD Team Camp will be held June 23rd...

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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) – There was mucho wailing and gnashing of teeth here in Flyerland when Kostas Antetokounmpo decided to withdraw from UD and enter his name for the upcoming NBA Draft. How dare he, after Bucky Bockhorn had finally figured out how to pronounce “Antetokounmpo!” Let’s...

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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- Following the Frankenstein naming convention I outlined in my last gif compendium (explained here: http://www.udpride.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31238) it is time for Ghost of Gifs ‘R’ Us, which is only fitting since Toys ‘R’ Us is no longer among the living. ...

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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- No, the old dude didn’t lose track of time. I do realize that the NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship game was last week. And no, I didn’t forget how to count, either. Villanova and Michigan did indeed square off in the final game of the Final Four. The...

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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- I recently lamented that the column I wrote back in January of 2007 about Christian Dawkins, the renegade agent at the center of the recruiting controversy, had disappeared into the ether. Well guess what? After some fine detective work by our esteemed...

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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- Back in January of 2007, I wrote a “From the Swamp” piece entitled “Things are not always what they seem” about my email communications with the operator of a HS recruiting website. The site in question had written some negative reviews on UD recruit Devin Searcy and...

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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) – The UD Flyers traveled to Fairfax, VA on Wednesday evening and put up their worst effort of the season in an 85-67 drubbing at the hands of George Mason. Fortunately for “FTS” I didn’t feel like paying GMU to watch this debacle, so I just followed along on Live...

Chandler, Arizona

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It was a cold February morning like most February mornings in Ohio, but today was going to be special. The following day, February 9th was going to be my son’s 5th birthday. Because it was his birthday we were going to do something he normally didn’t get to do during the week and that was go to...

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WEST BLOOMFIELD (MI) -- The UD Flyers came “close, but no cigar” in their road loss to UMass on Saturday afternoon. “FTS” happened to be in Erie, PA and got the unexpected bonus of being able to catch a game on Spectrum Sports that originally figured to be a Larry and Bucky special for...