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Teague in the House

Marquis Teague is being touted as the most important recruit of Rick Pitino’s tenure at Louisville.
I’m advised he has been sighted today visiting U of L along with several other high profile prep ballers.
– Seedy K

SchnellSpeak: 09.05.09 (Game Day Edition)

Howard Schnellenberger’s Florida Atlantic Fighting Owls open the season today a 22 1/2 point dog in Lincoln against Nebraska. Coach Quote has been a busy guy, doing almost forty interviews in addition to preparing his team.
“This is the biggest production for any game we have played.”
Plus there was that day of practice missed on account [...]

SchnellSpeak: 08.27.09

The season is drawing nigh. Which means The Schnell is fine tuning his game as well as that of his Fighting Owls. Florida Atlantic opens with Nebraska, if you recall. So mid practice, Schnellenberger had his troops switch from general pre-season stuff to specifics for the Huskers.
It was Literary Schnell who explained the purpose of [...]

The Rick Speaks

Rick Pitino will have a press conference within the hour — 3:00 pm EDT. No reason was mentioned in the notice to the media.
– Seedy K

Sayonara Indoor Football

A spokesman for the AFL — that would be the Arena Football League — confirmed we’re just days away from an announcement that the fake football league will soon be officially kaput. There haven’t been any games since the ever memorable 2008 Arena Bowl. (Anybody out there who can name the contestants without googling it? [...]

The Gilpin Tragedy

Max Gilpin is dead.
It is most sad. That his parents are distraught, still grieving and hoping that somebody, anybody might provide an answer that will offer succor is totally understandable.
Why and how he actually died on that football field will never be answered. There are a few probabilities and many more possibilities. Making such determinations [...]

Sunday Check In

Okay, okay, okay . . . so I forgot to put up the “Out to Lunch” sign. My bad.
To all those who inquired where I was and why I hadn’t weighed in on the draft, the death of Mr. October — oops, nevermind, Reggie Jackson didn’t just pass; it’s Michael Jackson who dove too deeply [...]

Seedy K Says “Let’s Twitter”

Okay, I have no desire to challenge Coach Cal on the number of folks who shall hang on my every tweet. Or is that twit? But my web guru has convinced me to link up to Twitter, so any of you all so inclined will know whenever I post something here or at culturemaven.com.
So, if [...]

Easy Chair Tuesday Night

Well, the deal in Orlando seems to be that Mo Williams has made some promises his teammates are trying to keep. To remind you, he more or less guaranteed a Cleveland win in the series. Backing him up are guys like Daniel Gibson who just came off the bench and canned a couple treys at [...]

Monday Morning Memo

Just some thoughts on this and that:
1) I’m not sure how much longer Tim Floyd’s tenure will last at Southern Cal? He’s accused of handing an envelope full of cash to a go-between representing former Trojan O.J. Mayo. Given that only three people were present, and two won’t be talking — Floyd and the guy [...]