Perhaps my very first post of this blog at the beginning of October should have explained my changed job situation. However, I couldn’t quite write it because I was having a hard time nailing down how I really felt. So I tried at various times, but it kept getting longer and branching into so many [...]
Archive for October, 2008
“What’s the deal with you and The Star?”
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2008 | 10 Comments »
A Philly kind of day
Posted in Women's basketball on October 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wednesday started with a call to Jim Foster, women’s hoops coach of Ohio State and native of the greater Philadelphia area. Wednesday ended with me contemplating several things Philly.
The Phillies, of course, won their second World Series title, this one coming 28 years after the first. I grew up a Cardinals fan, and my Missouri [...]
Friends “across the aisles”
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on October 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
They are playing a football game that’s a bit important in the Lone Star State on Saturday, as Texas visits Texas Tech.
When the Big 12 started in 1996, those of us who grew up in Big Eight territory had to figure out the traditions and quirks of our new “relatives” in Texas. One thing became [...]
A Baker’s Jumbo Dozen
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After the 13th Big 12 women’s hoops media day – set at Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, home of the 2009 league tournament _ here are 13 observations. Except … let’s go in reverse alphabetical order, since Baylor always gets to go first and Texas Tech has to be last in roll call.
Andrea Riley gets it … doesn’t she?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Off the court, Oklahoma State’s diminutive and immensely talented guard neither looks nor sounds like a player who would take a swing at an opponent. For Pete’s sake, Riley loves SpongeBob stuff and could pass for a little kid without even trying very hard.
Yet she had incidents with Texas (Big 12 tournament) and LSU (NCAA [...]
Big 12 media day No. 13
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The league began in 1996-97, the same year I arrived in Kansas City. Today, Oct. 22, was my 13th Big 12 women’s basketball media day, and over the next few days, I’ll be posting several things about that annual gathering.
A nice little detour to South Carolina
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I took a break from hoops – and everything else – for the last few days with a trip to Charleston. OK, not exactly true. I DID go to Charleston, but I didn’t really take a break from basketball. Not completely.
Saturday, I had to chance to hang out with broadcaster Debbie Antonelli, a Charleston resident [...]
I think I had a premonition
Posted in Movies I probably have on those old tapes, Rhoda, Television, Women's basketball on October 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Well, not exactly. But it is odd. Tuesday, I found myself thinking about Josephine the Plumber, the pitchwoman for Comet cleanser.
I’m not sure why. Sometimes, you can be thinking about the strangest things and then, if you take the time, you will connect the dots back to how you got there. But I don’t really [...]
Best of the Big 12
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on October 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Jumbo Dozen released its coaches’ picks for the preseason women’s basketball awards, and I’ll say right off that I don’t like that coaches are not able to vote for their own players. That forces them sometimes, for example, to vote for someone they absolutely do not think is player of the year. What’s the [...]
Too bad it’s not a `small’ world
Posted in Movies I probably have on those old tapes on October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Happy birthday to the lovely late Lillian Gish … who would be 115 if she were still alive today, Oct. 14. The photo at left is of Gish in her role of Rachel in ”Night of the Hunter,” one of my favorite films. She’s my pick as the greatest female movie hero to children until [...]
