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Be, or be not, afraid

By Eric Neel
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Thursday, September 30, 2004

It's almost playoff time, and players on contending teams are jacked up like a bunch of skate rats on Red Bull. They can't sit still. They can't wait to throw down. But it isn't all happy juice flowing through their veins right now. There's some of that black bile of fear and loathing floating around in there, too. Because if the postseason is the chance to make your mark in front of a super fat television audience and the high council of legendary elders, a la Spike Owen, it's also the ch ...

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