NEW YORK -- "There's a reason nobody likes to play these games," Jamie Dixon was saying. "It's too hard to be at your best this early in the year."
When Wade McGilberry bought a new baseball video game that offered a cash prize to the first player to pitch a perfect game, his wife urged him to skip work and stay home to play.
NEW YORK -- There are two tattoos on the left bicep of Syracuse point guard Scoop Jardine. One is a basketball falling through a hoop. The second, inked in cursive letters, reads: "Best Kept Secret". "I still don't think people have seen the real me," Jardine said after scoring a team- and career-high 22 points in the Orange's 95-73 win over No. 12 California in the semifinals of the 2K Sports Classic.
"I learned a long time ago from this guy named Cyrano de Bergerac, 'Don't bring me no mortal men, bring me giants.'" --Don King
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