Every so often, I’ll go to my map of Kansas, put my finger on tiny Sublette, and trace the long route to Manhattan. And think about how many times Shalee Lehning’s parents, Steve and Jane, have made that drive through the Sunflower State.
Sheesh. It blows me away. It makes the two-plus hours it takes me [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Sensational Shalee
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on November 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Big weekend for Sooners
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While the celebration will still be going on in Norman after Oklahoma’s destruction of Texas Tech in football on Saturday, the Sooners will be trying to win an early championship in women’s hoops today.
North Carolina comes to Lloyd Noble Center in Austin for the Preseason WNIT title game at 2 p.m. Central time Sunday. The [...]
How about the Huskies?
Posted in Women's basketball on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday watching No. 1 UConn dismiss San Diego State 99-55, and afterward Huskies coach Geno Auriemma gave his usual postgame press conference/lounge act that makes covering UConn different than any other program.
He’ll answer the media’s questions, go off on a few tangents, provide nuggets of information on players’ habits [...]
A Sunflower State girl comes home
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
JoAnn Hamlin’s loyalty is totally with her Iowa Hawkeyes … but it’s certainly not surprising that she, without even realizing it, hums the Kansas fight song when she hears it. That’s what happened Tuesday, when Iowa faced KU at Allen Fieldhouse.
“One of my teammates at one point said, ‘You’re not singing along to [...]
Just in case you’re interested in my ballot
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We did our first regular-season voting on Sunday, BEFORE Tennessee lost to Virginia, remember. I’m a notorious night owl and, thus, a notorious late voter. But one way or another, despite greater and lesser degrees of angst, I always do send in a ballot.
I’m not going to stew over these early ones (too much). Save [...]
The ‘other’ orange won
Posted in Women's basketball on November 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Monday night in Knoxville, the stars finally aligned right again for Virginia against Tennessee in an 83-82 victory.
The Cavaliers’ star, Monica Wright, had her career high, 35 points. That, combined with the Vols being a bunch of youngsters, gave U.Va. just its second victory in the 13-game series, which dates back to 1981. The only [...]
Orange alert
Posted in Women's basketball on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes, I think of Virginia as just another flower sheered off by the Tennessee lawnmower. It’s a slightly flawed analogy, but one that seems to fit well visually in my mind.
Virginia plays at Tennessee tonight (Nov. 17), and the game will be televised on Fox Sports South at 7 Eastern time. It will be the [...]
Rainy day in Raleigh
Posted in Uncategorized on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m visiting North Carolina, sitting in my friend Heather’s kitchen with her cats as company and looking out at the rain-soaked autum foliage through her picture window.
I have a bad habit – although it’s not particularly harmful on a more laid-back day like today _ of seeing something on Yahoo! – today it was the [...]
Hey, Van, what’s up at LSU?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Van Chancellor took over one of the most experienced teams in the country a little over a year ago when he came back to college coaching at LSU. He walked into a situation with five senior starters in a program that had been to four consecutive Final Fours and had a superstar center in Sylvia [...]
They read newspapers, don’t they?
Posted in Rhoda, Television on November 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A friend who works at an East Coast newspaper called the day after the election and mentioned that every copy was sold out all around town. They had printed up 20,000 more copies of the daily paper than usual, and even that hadn’t been enough. Many people, it seemed, wanted a keepsake.
I sarcastically joked to [...]
