The IronDog Chronicles

Here’s to the blogging sneakerheads getting their due…
With sneaker blogs falling under the mainstream publishing umbrellas of late, marketers are reaching out to sneaker bloggers and other urban culture aficionadoes to push wares and other products for influence and sway.  Good to see that the marketing trade rags are preaching to the massess that bloggers […]

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State Street won’t be the same…Not without Norm Van Lier…
Chicago lost a major icon today with the passing of Chicago Bull icon, Norm Van Lier today, and as a result, old-time Chicago basketball fans have taken a major hit.
The shocking part of his death is that he passed at the early age of 61.  He […]

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All things come in circles…But should they?
I was at a Sunday lunch talking about the best ESPN commercials of all-time, and I immediately thought of the Kevin Garnett/Stephon Marbury classic “Tastefully Done” video. However, I didn’t think that the Celtics would try to go for a reunion in 2009 a day later.
How […]

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With the Hill in the rearview mirror, I finally grabbed some time for this post that I thought you might enjoy…
The trip resulted in a I-70-77-64-71-80 whirlwind this past week, and I was able to hit Huntington, WVA, Lexington, Champaign-Urbana, and Iowa City.
I’ve been to all towns but Huntington, WVA, and I was actually stunned
by […]

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For a lot of Carolina fans, the wish has been granted…
College basketball announcer, Billy Packer was ousted by CBS on Monday. In my book, CBS’s dismissal of Packer is dismal for college basketball. What’s more disappointing is that the large majority of Packer’s detractors were Tar Heel fans.
Like him or hate him, […]

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This guy is definitely a game-changer…

Last week, we discussed Brandon Jennings and his potential move to Europe, and from Jason Zengerle’s article in the New Republic entitled “The Pivot”, Sonny Vaccaro was not bluffing and seemed to have known who his ‘Jackie Robinson.’
I’m pretty stunned by Brandon Jennings’s move to Europe..In terms of following basketball, […]

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I told people that this young gunna’ is different…
A while back, I posted this shot of Brandon Jennings that I caught at the MLK Invitational in Greensboro. I called him the second coming of Kenny Anderson. I called him the best high-school point guard of this decade, and I still don’t think that […]

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Fare thee well to an unsung hero…
It seems that most college basketball fans of today believe that the sport was born in 1979 with the legendary Michigan State/Indiana State final that debuted the intense rivalry of Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Larry Bird.  Yet, many college basketball aficionados don’t realize how close the DePaul Blue Demons […]

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For all of the shots at the integrity of basketball over the past couple of years, here’s to someone and a sports program that is making a difference…
One of my all-time favorite people in basketball, JD Walsh, who has been running basketball schools out of New York City for the past decade, partnered with Chinar.org […]

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Everyone wants to ball when they come to the Hill…
Which is why no one should be surprised that presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, wanted to ball this AM with the Heels, and who can blame him? After all, how often do you get a chance to ball in a pick-up game with a Final Four […]

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