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Alex Skillin

Alex Skillin is a writer who lives in Boston.  He tweets sporadically@AlexSkillin, blogs regularly at ballgamebanter.blogspot.com, and just has genuine good fun on his Tumblr.

  • March 29, 2013
    Good for Something

    Even before it started, Bobby Valentine's tenure as Red Sox manager was an unmitigated disaster. But, with a new crop of hot young prospects, a quarter billion in bad contracts shipped to LA and a top-10 pick in this year's draft, was Bobby V's reign really as bad as we thought? 

  • January 3, 2013
    Why We Watch: Chris Wilcox, The Long and Winding Road

    Coming into the league amongst a cavalcade of uber-athletic big men, Chris Wilcox was the type of player  that could bend basketball games through his sheer athletic will, leaving smaller, less gifted opponents cowering as he came thundering down the lane. But how he ended up doing a yeoman's job backing up Kevin Garnett is Why We Watch.