Gheorghe: The Blog would like to salute a group of Gheorghes in green and gold who have capitvated a nation of hoops fans with their exciting, high-profile display of pure Gheorgheness. In weathering Jim Nantz's sound and Billy Packer's fury, surviving GMU & Jim Larranaga's integrity-soaked suspension of Tony Skinn in the opening round, and marching through basketball powerhouses like they were light beers on a July afternoon, Gheorghe Mason has enabled countless serious sports enthusiasts to revel in glee like five-year-olds at recess. Coach Larranaga seems to be leading his squad by drawing from this site's mission statement on a daily basis. How the experts here missed the obvious correlation between "George Mason" and its Romanian counterpart, "Gheorghe Muresan," is beyond me. But it doesn't really matter. This is the fun stuff.During Dick Vitale's spazzy frolic amid spot-on superlative and silly hyperbole (and why not -- he foolishly continues to pick favorites in every round, so he surely must be the most stunned), he proclaimed that Lamar Butler -- and his four starting teammates -- will be a household name now. Not sure if that's true, but it sparked a trivia question in me.
Are there any other Final Four players in NCAA history (or even any college hoopsters) besides Lamar Butler whose first and last names are schools that made it to the Sweet 16 at least once?
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The best was Billy Packer's "what can Brown do for you!!!" outburst at the end of regulation. If I were Jai Lewis, instead of popping my jersey, I'd go put Packer in a headlock.
That was Lundquist with the bad pun...usually a Nantz staple...but it was Vern this time.
While not a college hoop player, it might be worth noting that Bradley Lamar plays OL of UVA's football team and wears #69.
That's the closest thing to a winner we have so far. I was hoping Scoonie Penn's real name might be Bradley or Purdue, but it's James.
Not sure if:
Duke Washington
Xavier Houston
Stanford LaSalle
or
Cal Richmond
ever played...
Rob, the line on ODU-Michigan is a pick em. you still want a wager w/ me?
git r done...
ODU is a pick 'em with Michigan? Wow.
These are the salad days for college hoops in SEVA. In addition to being especially captivated by Mason's run (as it's a hotbed of CAA action here), ODU is making waves in the NIT. Plus, out of nowhere, Virginia Wesleyan won the D-III men's hoops tournament.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Williamsburg, a practicing starter has his shot hit the bottom of the rim.
Squirrel, it didn't take long for your boy Julian Tavarez to lose his shit...
http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=132492
w&m's getting some secondary publicity, with several recent mason profiles including will thomas' dunking over some tribe stiff. nice.
i'm your huckleberry, michael jack. what's the wager?
how about a fine 6 or 12 pack of Canadian beer?
canadian for you if michigan wins, domestic micro if the big blue beast prevails.
for me, that is
Little buddy, you can't handle a little Molson?
i'd prefer a little sierra barleywine, if you know what i'm saying
Michigan/South Carolina for NIT supremacy...get excited.
pretty strong effort by odu. zoinks. let's hope that's not an omen for mason.
I'm debating between my favorite, Labatt's, or a throwback to a beer that I haven't had in awhile, Moosehead.
ODU was just outmatched. Michigan is playing better than they have all season. probably because everyone is healthy. they just dominated ODU inside. not even close.
the saddest thing about this game is that Michigan had the potential to play like that most of the year, but just lolligagged there way through most games. so frustrating
Perhaps it would be wise for the Michigan AD to find a coach who doesn't allow his players to lolligag all season long.
Rickey being Rickey:
An exchange between an autograph-seeking fan and Rickey Henderson on Tuesday:
"Rickey, I've been a fan of yours for so long."
"I believe you."
"Can I have your autograph?"
"No."
"No?"
"Remember me as a player?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I'm a coach now. And I gotta coach."
And Rickey laughed like mad.
By no means am I defending the alleged behavior of the Duke lacrosse team -- my job is just to mock the absurd. When people get a microphone stuck in the faces for the first time, they tend to say inane things.
"That students got up at 8:30 in the morning shows you the level of concern," said Chandra Y. Guinn, the center's director.
Really? I know I used to sleep until 11, but Duke students could only muster an 8:30 wake-up for one of the most high-profile, controversial moments in the school's recent history? Or is she being sarcastic? Read it again that way, adding "as she yawned and looked away" to the end.
Wow, and it goes on. This is the most jaded article I've read in a while, presuming guilt fairly quickly with DNA results still pending. Mixing extreme melodrama with moral judgment makes for an uncomfortable read on ESPN.com.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/columns/story?id=2389669
"At the same time, less than a mile away, hundreds of rainbow-colored pinwheels set in the ground in the Clocktower Quad spun quickly in the breeze, so fast that they seemed to stand still.
The Pinwheel Project, part of the National Sexual Assault Awareness Week observation, features a pinwheel for each member of the school's undergraduate population who, statistically speaking, can expect to be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
Taken as a metaphor, the pinwheels are poignant and effective."
There's a statement you never thought you'd read.
I agree wholeheartedly, Drew. According to the article (highlight the last sentence):
"15 players in all -- had faced previous charges that include underage alcohol possession, loud noise and public urination. Most of those charges, the story said, were resolved in deals with prosecutors that allowed the players to avoid criminal convictions. The story named names and served to galvanize critics who believe that athletes sometimes seem to function beyond the rules."
That is retarded.
When I was a senior at W&M, I faced charges of trespassing -- a worse offense than drinking or public urination. Six of us were charged and forced to appear before a judge. Guess what the prosecutor did? He made a deal whereby we paid a fine and no conviction went our our record. After a six-month probation period, I (along with Herb Goddard) failed to appear in court to have the offense stricken, found out there was a warrant for my arrest, showed up at the court, was arrested, and sat in a cell for several hours. Even after all of that, the judge didn't want to convict some college kid on some penny-ante offense. The deal went through, and I was free and clear (after another fine).
Of Note: none of the six of us were varsity athletes, but it could be argued that they mistakenly thought we were, based on our incredible Body-By-Milwaukee's-Best physiques. THIS IS HOW IT WORKS, Mr. Garber, you hack with a by-line.
It's lines like that one, slipped deftly into paragraph 25 at the end of a long, poorly researched piece filled with opinion-as-fact and quotes from idiots-as-resources that seeps into Joe Average Reader's brain and skews his outlook. It's irresponsible and shabby journalism.
Is rape reprehensible and worthy of public outcry? Duh. Is the allegation of it carte blanche to misrepresent "facts" and "truths" at The Worldwide Leader In Sports? Not really. If the dudes are guilty of gang raping this woman, throw the book at them. Hell, castrate 'em. But let the prosecuting attornies do the sell job on the jury and quit tainting a story that is actually frightening and compelling on its own.
This whole incident reminds me of a frat house rape incident that occurred at UF during my undergrad years. Very similar in description: a bunch of guys get some strippers to come to their house. Eventually they get too rowdy and then decide that forced sex is the only way satisfy themselves. The major difference? The frat boys at UF were dumb enough to videotape their actions.
Surprisingly, they weren't disciplined very harshly for their "alleged" actions.
A couple of links:
http://www.now.org/nnt/fall-99/campus.html
Check the third headline down.
http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=4860&reviewer=1
Review of the documentary that followed the "alleged" offenses.
At William and Mary, this would've occurred at the Soccer House, but the strippers would've kicked the shit out of Skippy, Lurch, Boner and Kilgore.
Rickey Being Rickey x 25:
http://www.sheriffsully.com/2005/08/30/rickey-being-rickey/
"C'mon baby, I'm in it to win it!! Now take off dat thong!"
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