I have no idea what my title means. Hope it got your attention, and you now realize after almost two weeks away that I’m baaaaaaaaaaack. Open for business. One more caveat. I’m not totally on my game yet. And, apparently, Golden State didn’t have quite enough last night in San Antonio. I figured it was [...]
Looking back at this team and this season, I’ve been struck with a belief that it really was a magical ride. Then I’ll wonder, isn’t it like this with all champions? Especially in the amateur ranks? Were there more stories here than usual, more heartbreak overcome, more obstacles hurdled, a more unusual and interesting gang [...]
I’ve watched the game in replay. I’ve perused the box score. I’m not sure I’ve got much more to offer viz a viz the game itself, beyond what I’ve already observed and what you’ve read in many different places. But a couple of things. Michigan hit 55% from the field in the 2d half (11/20). [...]
I guess I didn’t know the whole story of how MOP Luke Hancock landed at U of L, though I allude to it in my championship story which comes out tomorrow in print and online. Apparently, when Jim Larranaga left George Mason, Luke wanted to follow him to Miami. GM wouldn’t allow a release to [...]
This will be the first of, I expect, several communiques about the championship game. But far from the most in depth. I was not out among the tear gassed and paint balled celebrants last night, though, on the way home from the HummelDome where I watched the game, I did dodge more than a few [...]
Now, Rule #3 comes into play, since Rule #1 (Survive and advance) no longer really applies. Of course, Rule #2 still matters, but, since there is not conjecture at this juncture about an opponent in the next round, it is moot. The who(m) Louisville plays is Michigan. Rule #3: Close the deal. On Monday, the [...]
People of the Jewish persuasion have recently completed their annual solemn celebration of Passover. This is the holiday that contemplates the exodus under the leadership of Moses from Egypt. The plagues. Parting of the red sea. Forty years in the desert. Unleavened bread — matzoh — because they were in such a hurry to leave, [...]
I ate with the usual couple of suspects today at our regular Wednesday lunch. One of whom made an absurd suggestion, only partially in jest. It was Mike, the fellow I mentioned the other day, the one who acutely observed that Kevin Ware’s injury might have been inadvertently caused by the leaping super sub’s subconscious [...]
Not sure that there is anything more to add to the horror we saw and felt and the hope we harbor for Kevin Ware. The injury is gruesome. My friend Mike, a former Waggener High School and Yale baller, made an interesting observation. “I think Kevin altered his landing mid air because of the raised [...]
March 31, 2013 – 10:07 am
Now is the time for your talisman. You got a lucky shirt? Wear it. The ballcap you were wearing the night the Cardinals spanked Syracuse in the Garden? Don it. When the Cards bested Oregon, was your clicker pointed toward Atlanta? (33.7489° N, 84.3881° W)? Make sure your directions are correctly calibrated by 5:05. After [...]
