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Beyond the Heart by Ben Fiore   As you may know, today is “National Best Friends Day”.  Usually “holidays” like this are dumb to me.  But this year really got me thinking.  With how much of an epidemic mental illness is nowadays and depression, it never hurts to tell people what they’re worth.  So ifContinueContinue reading “Why We Need To Tell Our Friends That They Are Our Second Family”

Beyond the Arc by Ben Fiore All the hype is around Kawhi Leonard for this Raptors season and especially after this amazing playoffs and finals run he’s made. Which is clearly well deserved. What people aren’t looking at closely enough are 3 stigmas really, but I’m gonna call them curses. BROKEN CURSE 1: KYLE LOWRY’SContinueContinue reading “The 3 Curses Kawhi Could Break By Winning the 2019 Finals”

Beyond the Arc by Ben Fiore   This week, former college star,NBA player, and NBA assistant coach of the Miami Heat Juwan Howard was signed by the University of Michigan to become the Wolverines’ newest head basketball coach to replace long time coach John Beilein. Juwan Howard was historically a part of one of theContinueContinue reading “Fab Five Revived: The Hire We All Wanted”

Beyond the Arc by Ben Fiore   Plain and simple, the New York Knicks were “supposed” to win the draft lottery this year.  Sadly for Knick fans, they’re going to have to just cross their fingers and hope luck finds them in free agency.  The Knicks didn’t get shorted too bad though since they stillContinueContinue reading “The Wrong Team Just Won The 2019 NBA Draft Lottery (and probably Zion)”

Beyond the Arc by Ben Fiore   Yesterday, Zion Williamson of Duke declared for the NBA draft.  A few weeks ago, Zion said he would return to Duke to win a national championship, as I wrote in my previous article “What’s Next for Zion?”.  Thankfully Zion did what is ultimately best for his future byContinueContinue reading “Zion Made The Right Choice”

Before I get started here, I just want to remind you that all of the following is a perception of Tiger Woods’ doing an interview after winning the 2019 Masters if his ego was allowed to speak rather than the typical polite Tiger response.  So here we go… Tiger’s Ego:  What’s up bitches, guess who’sContinueContinue reading “Tiger Woods Is Back: As Told by the Ego of Tiger Woods”

Beyond the Arc by Ben Fiore   Above is a very poor image of a shit quality bracket, but I think it’s going to prove to be quite accurate.  The playoffs are finally upon us in the NBA and there are going to be a lot of good match ups especially with some unusual facesContinueContinue reading “Benny Buckets’ 2019 NBA Playoffs Prediction”

Beyond the Arc by Ben Fiore   Both Dwayne Wade and Dirk Nowitzki both played their final games in front of their respective home crowds of Miami and Dallas on Tuesday, April 9th 2019.  Both of these guys have done so much in their career that there is no physical way I can fit itContinueContinue reading “The End of an Era: D-Wade and Dirk Retire”

Antonio Brown over the last 9 years has consistently shown he has “Hall of Fame” caliber talent, but over the last few months has more so shown that he is a dumbass.  Antonio Brown has shown greed, jealousy and pettiness to the entire Steelers organization.  At first I was sad to see him go, butContinueContinue reading “JuJu Is Better Than AB: An Inside Look Why”