The Agony of Defeat

I'm on the road in Morgantown, West Virginia so I missed Gilbert Arenas' dramatic return in tonight's loss to the Bucks. Gilbert played well -- 17 points on reasonably efficient shooting in 20 minutes -- but precisely as one might have feared, the Wizards' Gil-free improved defense seems to have gone missing.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/04/the-agony-of-defeat/44143/