Posted in Women's basketball on February 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Watching the Winter X Games, I saw one of those “How did he not die?” crashes in what is called snowboard cross, where folks race downhill and go over lots of jumps while trying to avoid taking out each other. Kind of NASCAR on snowboards, and the wrecks can be similarly horrifying.
After one such “wreck” that involved everybody else in some capacity, somehow one snowboarder managed to get through unscathed. And it reminded me of how the Big 12 is looking after this weekend.
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Posted in Women's basketball on February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s really not supposed to snow here in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, at least not very often. And yet this makes two Januarys in a row I’ve been here when it snowed.
Most people here seem both fascinated by and afraid of snow. And so while I was working at Cameron Indoor Stadium in the hours before Friday’s Duke-Florida State game, I kept hearing the alarm in the locals’ voices – “It’s getting REALLY bad out there!” _ seeing them check weather cameras on the Internet and generally acting like they were gazelle that just got the scent of lions approaching.
This is understandable, though, because here they just don’t have much in the way of snow-clearing equipment. Snow falls, and lot of services stop in a way they just don’t in other places in the country more used to and better equipped to deal with the white stuff.
At any rate, those “brave” souls who came out to watch two teams ranked in the top 15 in the country didn’t actually see that. No. 7 Duke looked the part, but No. 14 Florida State didn’t in a 73-43 Blue Devil victory.
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