‘Why couldn’t they just let them come ashore?’
Those were the words of my Haitian friend when news broke of a vessel with over 100 Haitians cap-sizing off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands early last week. It was the fourth such confirmed tragedy to occur in the last three years.
In total, close [...]

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I’d like to announce that I was recently brought on as an editor for popular sports website Bleacherreport.Com.
If you know about sports journalism, you’d know that Bleacher Report is the top destination on the net for aspiring sports writers. It averages 3.6 million visitors a day and has over 600 daily articles published from across [...]

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Ep. 455: Game 5 from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo.
*The episode above is their last one of the season after the Lakers’ title clincher. Tas is the guy in the Miami Vice Hawaiian shirt in the clip above*
When you sit down and think of Toronto, as a sports fan, you immediately think of the storied [...]

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Nothing could compare to yesterday. Not anything since the unexpected 2007 NBA Title run when I believed we were destined to lose to the Suns before Horry hip-checked Steve Nash into the NBA Playoffs on TNT sign. Nothing.
June 24th, 2009 gave me the type of event that ‘might’ (I stress that work) make me [...]

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The folks over at LatinoLA.Com have had my Manny article up for a few days on their front page.
I figured out that even though I know my writing is up to par to be featured on a Slate or NYT, I don’t always have to go after the “big dogs.” There are plenty of [...]

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About two years ago, when I was on a writing binge winning an award from the Independent Press Association (as my friend Carla did); writing for the oldest, black newspaper in the country, the New York Amsterdam News; being an editor for various Hip-Hop websites; getting invited to various seminars across the country and freelancing, [...]

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Growing up in the Dominican community, if you’re gay, it must be real tough to come out.
With the recent proposal from Gov David Patterson to introduce same sex marriage, I wondered what a Dominican would think if I walked around the neighborhood and asked their opinions on gays.
Really, I don’t have to walk around [...]

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The 2008-2009 Spurs Season Review and 2009-2010 Outlook.
Spurs: 54-28
Title: Southwest Division Champs
Playoff Result: 4-1 loss to Dallas Mavericks in Round 1.
Three years ago, the Dallas Mavericks went into San Antonio and won a series thanks to an ill-timed Manu Ginobili foul. This time, the Mavericks didn’t need a foul from Manu or seven games [...]

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Location: 237 Dyckman Street
Hours: Noon – Midnight 7 days a week.
Mamasushi.com
Tucked on the corner of Dyckman and Seaman Street, is the new Latin/Asian (Japanese) fusion restaurant, Mama Sushi.
A growing restaurant strip west of Broadway on Dyckman Street is beginning to mirror restaurant strips in other parts of the city; Madison Avenue, Chelsea and Tribeca to [...]

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Is the only place I find myself writing away.
I know – how the hell can I write in a packed train in the morning with the noise and commuters all around me? Somehow I just can. But I don’t write on a laptop or a notebook, I write on my blackberry. I found that [...]

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