I’ve been telling my friends I’m going to pretend it’s 1974 on Sunday. That way, the St. Louis Cardinals will be playing in the Super Bowl.
When the Houston Comets franchise disbanded in December, I wrote here about knowing the feeling of losing a team. Having grown up a St. Louis Cardinals football fan, I stopped [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Turn back the clock
Posted in Women's basketball on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Big 12 power rankings No. 2
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on January 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Not to belabor the obvious … oh, well, why not? What else are sports writers good for? The top three South teams – Oklahoma (6), Baylor (5) and Texas A&M (4) – all have more or as many conference wins as the bottom four North teams combined. Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Colorado all have one [...]
Kay would love it if we laugh a bit, too
Posted in Women's basketball on January 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
As we spend this weekend thinking about N.C. State coach Kay Yow, we should remember this: Along with so many other wonderful qualities, she had a great sense of humor.
The Indiana Fever’s Lin Dunn was a pioneer in the women’s college game like Yow; Dunn began her career in 1970. Saturday, Dunn sent me [...]
Big 12 power rankings No. 1
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I don’t like to do these until after a few games have been played, just to have a better feel for the teams. Four games in, here’s the Jumbo Dozen Power Rankings No. 1 for 2009:
1. Baylor, 4-0: Seems to have the best combination of skills and experience.
2. Oklahoma, 4-0: If Sooners can handle Texas [...]
Malia to the hoop and other thoughts
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Oh, goodness, there’s a lot to get to from the past several days, so here goes.
*-Surely everyone’s noticed how tall Malia Obama seems to be at age 10. And we know her dad, the new Prez, can play some hoops.
Have others been thinking what I’ve been thinking? That maybe eight years from now, we’ll have [...]
About the Geno vs. Syracuse thing
Posted in Women's basketball on January 23, 2009 | 12 Comments »
In regard to UConn’s game Saturday with Syracuse, and the postgame hijinx …
I understand a coach like UConn’s Geno Auriemma being concerned about rough play and feeling the need to protect his players. But let’s try to look at this from both sides’ perspective.
And just in case you’re wondering what Pat thinks …
Posted in Women's basketball on January 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here in Knoxville, Tenn., today, they had 16,413 fans to see Tennessee’s 68-56 victory over South Carolina.
I figured as long as I was already in the general vicinity of Knoxville – it’s just about a 6-hour drive from North Carolina’s Triangle – I’d come over to watch the game and do a little prep work [...]
It’s not supposed to be this freaking freezing here
Posted in Women's basketball on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I mean, come on. I expect it to be frigid if I go to a game at, say, Iowa State. But N.C. State? It usually doesn’t get that cold in Raleigh. But it sure is now. It’s really, really cold.
I’m here in the Triangle to catch some basketball action – Thursday was Florida State vs. N.C. [...]
Sooners vs. “perfect” again
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first truly tough test of Kansas State’s undefeated season comes Wednesday night at Oklahoma. And it’s interesting that this will be the third of the four still-unbeaten teams that the Sooners will face.
They lost at home to North Carolina on Nov. 23 in the WNIT title game, then at Connecticut on [...]
Welcome back, Vandy
Posted in Women's basketball on January 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
OK, I’ve given Vanderbilt the opposite of “props” recently, explaining in one post that I was taking the Commodores out of the Top 25 and then wondering in another post why they were staying in the rankings despite suffering their fourth loss this season.
Considering their rivalry with Tennessee has been so decidedly one-sided, the ‘Dores [...]
