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Selling the call
The best performances in the playoffs often come just before the ref's whistle
Updated: May 5, 2010, 12:20 PM ET
By Alyssa Roenigk | ESPN The Magazine
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ESPN The Magazine: May 17, 2010 Issue
Check out all the content from ESPN The Magazine's May 17, 2010 issue. Where noted, the content is for ESPN Insiders.
May 17, 2010 Issue
- MLB Confidential: Players tell all
- Kyle Farnsworth is one bad dude
- Hollinger: Debunking NBA playoff myths
- NBA playoffs: How to "sell" a call
- Why isn't Lyoto Machida a bigger draw?
- Giuseppe Rossi: The soccer star who got away
- The Busch brothers: family matters
- The rise: How to go from 9-to-5 to NFL coach
- NBA Player X: The most overpaid guys
- Body Shot with IRL's Tony Kanaan
- Kenny Mayne chats with Nelson Cruz
- An excerpt from Howard Bryant's new book on Hank Aaron
- Ford: Mock Draft 3.0
- Doolittle: Best fits for Clips coach?
- Pelton: Champions show balance
- Thorpe: What Z-Bo must change
- Haberstroh: Five adjustments for Grizzlies
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