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With the coronavirus suspending the NBA season through 19 weeks and change, a picture of the Vortex’s Fantasy Basketball season was nearly complete. Yet, even with the season cut short, a clear winner can be acknowledged. Led by 4 of the top 9 average point scorers in the league, Brendan’s
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When you picture a GM, you probably think of an old former player turned front office guy using his playing experience and knowledge of the game piecing together a team with the monetary and regulatory contraints at hand.. More realistically, the picture in your head is the plot line from
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In 1965, 21 of the 80 football players selected to the 1965 All Star Game started the first racially and politically motivated protest in the NFL. Subject to obscene amounts of racism and exclusion leading up to the All Star Game, held in New Orleans, the 21 black athletes as
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During the 2015 NBA playoffs, the Wall Street Journal published this article detailing the difference in Steph Curry’s free throw percentage with his mouthguard both in and out of his mouth. According to the WSJ research team, Curry made 198 out of 214 free throws while his mouthguard was out
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With March Madness dominating sports headlines as of late, it is easy to forget that the NBA playoffs are drawing ever nearer as well. While the Western Conference has served as a perennial bloodbath for the last decade or so, many thought that the Warriors would emerge the clear-cut conference
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