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Cleveland State Dominates Wake Forest in 84-69 First Round Upset
When you jump out to a 9-0 lead, and then go on to beat a team by 15 that was ranked #1 in the country at one point in the season, you can go ahead and shatter that whole glass slipper notion on the...
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Take a Picture of the Best Team in The NBA: the Cavaliers Cavaliers
Going into Wednesday night’s game, the Cleveland Cavaliers sit atop the NBA with the league’s best record at 57-13. Before their last game they paused and took a team picture. Well LeBron took it...
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Pistons Bring Cell Phones, 100-Pound Trucks, and Whining to Cleveland: Cavs...
There was a time in the not so distant NBA past where the Detroit Pistons were the class of the Eastern Conference, a team to be reckoned with on a nightly basis to be sure. And they also stood for...
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Danny Ferry Loses Out in Exec of Year Award; But Deserved It
Waiting for Next Year had a post up Sunday afternoon citing reports from an NBA source that the Denver Nuggets GM Mark Warkentien is the winner of this year’s NBA Executive of the Year Award....
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How True Are The Shaq To Cleveland Rumors?
ESPN’s Chris Broussard reported yesterday morning on Sportscenter that the trade deadline talks involving Shaquille O’Neal to the Cavaliers earlier this season never actually died, and are currently...
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‘Dunktapegate’ Will End In Nike Commercial
[Editor's Note: Our good friend Brendan Bowers, who has been contributing to MSF under the name "J.D. Shaver", has shifted his blogging focus from his old blog Shaver Sports to his new one: Stepien...
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Nike’s More Than a Game Weekend: From Blogger’s Row
As your average run of the mill sports blogger, I don’t ask for much. The accomodations provided by my mother’s basement are more than adequate. And while I’m still far from my 40th birthday, I see...
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Cleveland State opens Horizon League play at home with a 62-57 win over Loyola
[Editor's note: I'm really excited to welcome Brendan Bowers of Stepien Rules back into the fold as a consistent MSF contributor. Brendan will be covering Cleveland State Viking basketball for the...
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Gary Waters’ 4-Guard Lineup Leads Cleveland State to 70-63 Victory over UIC
In Norris Cole, D’Aundray Brown, Jeremy Montgomery, and Trevon Harmon, Cleveland State Coach Gary Waters returns four guards who saw considerable minutes on last year’s tournament team. Over the last...
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A Mid-January Look at Last Year’s College Basketball Cinderellas
During last year’s NCAA tournament – as a reminder - every 1, 2, and 3 seed made it to the Sweet-16. Two 4-seeds made it, a 5-seed, and the lowest other seeded team was the PAC-10′s Arizona (12)....
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Current Vikings Impress Ex-Viking, New Cav Cedric Jackson
Last year, while Cedric Jackson was leading the Cleveland State Vikings to the Horizon League championship and a first round win over Wake Forest in the NCAA tournament, Cavaliers GM Danny Ferry was...
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Attn Young Ballers: Think Before You Ink
Before I get into my recap of Cleveland State’s one point win over the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon, I have to first revisit something from Friday. Vikings Coach Gary Waters...
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As Cavaliers Look on, CSU Beats YSU, and Looks to Roadtrip
Cavaliers Danny Green and Cedric Jackson sat courtside as CSU (10-12, 6-4) got a much needed win at home against Horizon League bottom feeder Youngstown State 77-69 on Saturday. The win moved the...
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Mid-Major Madness Starts Early as Butler downs CSU 70-59
There are some things simpler in the mid-major world of college basketball when compared to its BCS contemporaries. Less cameras, less reporters, less pressure from boosters, less temptations from...
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When Bracket Busters Bust…
…You end up with an ESPNU Bracketbuster game like the one I was at on Saturday featuring a team with 3 wins. That would be Toledo, who rode into Cleveland for a match-up against the CSU Vikings with 24...
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