Our admiration for Elena Delle Donne is long documented. Since our very first post about the then-Delaware Blue Hen in January 2012, we've featured her a dozen times in these pages. Today, perhaps our final post in her honor, at least with respect to her athletic exploits.
Sadly, Delle Donne's final years mirrored those of Larry Bird, who spent his last seasons in Boston in perpetual pain, his back wrecked by years of pounding. Delle Donne played her entire career with Lyme Disease, and fought through a series of injuries. She missed the entire 2020 and 2024 seasons, and only played three games in 2021.
Nonetheless, she's a first-ballot Hall of Famer. I'm sure her enshrinement in Springfield will be as important to her as her place in the G:TB Pantheon.
Killing time in St Pete before flying home this afternoon. Protests are spirited here in Pinellas county.
ReplyDeleteappears to be that way across the country. good on us.
ReplyDeleteDelle Donne is on short list of best players to ever set foot on William and Mary campus. A probably incomplete list also includes David Robinson (Navy), Ralph Sampson (Virginia), Phil Ford, James Worthy and Sam Perkins (North Carolina), Johnny Dawkins, Christian Laettner and Danny Ferry (Duke) and Phil Sellers (Rutgers).
ReplyDeleteWhen the Tribe competed in the old Southern Conference, West Virginia was in the league, as well, with all-timer Jerry West. But near as I can tell, West never played in Williamsburg. Because the Mountaineers were nationally ranked, W&M "home games" against WVU were held in Norfolk or Richmond at bigger venues.
A belated happy birthday to the doofus overlord!! Cheers, Tejus!!
ReplyDeleteYet another weekend on the road in Central Florida for volleyball. Second stop in Winter Haven this spring. One more weekend (next weekend- Deerfield Beach) and then we’re free until Nationals in June.
ReplyDeletehow we feeling about the gators, mark?
ReplyDeleteI am watching a final four game on an airplane seatback monitor on a flight bound for Roanoke. Not in the air yet, but this is novel.
ReplyDeleteRefs doing some interesting work here
ReplyDeleteGators Gators Gators. Happy for Mark!
ReplyDeleteI watched the first half in the hotel and then relocated to a Gator bar around the corner here in Winter Haven to change the karma. Seemed to work. Go Gators.
ReplyDeleterussian machine never breaks
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ReplyDeletelast time i wore a suit was at whit's nuptials last may. need to wear one tomorrow for my father-in-law's memorial. pulled the same suit out of my dry cleaning pile, tossed it in a bag, drove to pittsburgh. went to iron it this evening. either i did some serious damage to it at the whitlaineywedding, some moths are afoot, or it's just an old suit, but one way or another, tomorrow will be the last time i wear it. shit is banged up. glad i looked at it before i "packed" it.
ReplyDeleteHappy National Championship day to all who celebrate. I'm not nervous yet but we'll be there by this evening.
ReplyDeleteA guy I went to law school with but never actually spoke to just sent me a connection request LinkedIn. He works at DOJ and has 59 connections. Either he's about to be laid off and suddenly needs to build a network, or The Man is coming after me for my leftist G:TB posts.
ReplyDeleteLet’s hope it’s the former!
ReplyDeleteOr he's looking to recruit you Zed
ReplyDeletejust catching up on zman's margalia . . . nice annotation!
ReplyDeleteI need this game to start now.
ReplyDeleteHow bout them Gators!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Mark - hell of a game! I'm glad I stayed up for it.
ReplyDeleteHappy belated Tejus.
And....Hello Friends.
That game ended earlier than I expected. I hate when a game ends like that, though. Shades of Freddie Brown in 1982.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Mark!!
ReplyDeleteRefs called 4 fouls in the 1st half, 26 in the 2nd. Got some ‘splaining to do there.
Exciting game, though.
that was a really fun game to watch. both teams played hard as hell. it cannot be fun playing against houston.
ReplyDeleteI did not think that game was fun to watch. It was extremely stressful. I need the day off today.
ReplyDeleteAlso - humble brag. I won two tournament pools this year. Everything is coming up Millhouse.
ReplyDeletethe fact that stephen a smith is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate cements our nation's status as a clownshow.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. It's Idiocracy at this point.
ReplyDeleteIs Stephen A. significantly less qualified than Donald J.?
ReplyDeletenope. but that sorta makes the point, no?
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