You see, that is a much more descriptive and accurate title than calling it a “Challenge” that is unless you are referring to anything a Kelvin Sampson coached team is doing. It seems like it was challenge for the Hoosiers to do anything remotely productive on offense last season, just ask UCLA. From the ACC:
Monday, Nov. 26
7:00 p.m. ESPN2 Wake Forest at Iowa
Tuesday, Nov. 27
7:00 p.m. ESPN Georgia Tech at Indiana
7:30 p.m. ESPN2 Minnesota at Florida State
8:00 p.m. ESPNU Northwestern at Virginia
9:00 p.m. ESPN Wisconsin at Duke
9:30 p.m. ESPN2 Purdue at Clemson
Wednesday, Nov. 28
7:00 p.m. ESPN N.C. State at Michigan State
7:30 p.m. ESPN2 Illinois at Maryland
8:00 p.m. ESPNU Boston College at Michigan
9:00 p.m. ESPN North Carolina at Ohio State
9:30 p.m. ESPN2 Virginia Tech at Penn State
UNC returns the favor and visits Columbus which has a degree of difficulty tied to whether Greg Oden and Mike Conley go pro or not. At the same time it will be an excellent road test for a team that will be one of the favorites to win the national title. NC State’s visit to Michigan State should be a very good match-up. Georgia Tech at Indiana and Wisconsin at Duke seem to be the only other two games that are remotely interesting.
In honor and memory of those lost in Blacksburg.
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My thoughts and prayers go out to Hokie nation and all those connected with Virginia Tech in the wake of this horrific shooting today which claimed 32 victims and the life of the shooter. It is nearly impossible to conceive that such a horrendous thing could happen especially among those who are in the best years of their lives.
May God bless and comfort those who are mourning.
We are all Hokies today.
…Don Imus might have been signing on this morning. Chris pointed this out in the comments section:
Here’s a thought from the editor of the sports page of my hometown newspaper. It was actually Duke’s fault that Imus lost his job……if Lindsey Harding had made her free throws at the end of the Duke-Rutgers game, Rutgers would have been out of the tournament and Imus would have been Ok, unless he called the Duke players [phrase redacted].
Now, we don’t know for sure what might have happen had Duke(or any other team) been sitting in the title game versus Tennessee. Who knows maybe Imus would have stumbled into the same sin or maybe he would have settled for a crack at the expense of Alison Bales.
As Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park, “A butterfly can flap it’s wings in Peking and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine.”
I wanted to take a moment to send out best wishes and get wells to Alpha Wolf at Red and White from State.
Around February 13th fresh posts stopped coming and it turns out there was a fairly serious reason why. From SFN:
Red and White is not dead, though I may have been (try hitting a stationary object at 47.5 MPH) were it not for the grace of God. It’s taken me a lot longer than I would like to get the blog moving again. I totalled a car in February and have had two sinus and facial reconstruction surgeries in the meantime, and let me tell you that that kind of surgery sucks. To this day I am still getting crushing sinus headaches as everything heals but I refuse to take any more narcotics to alleviate the pain. Thankfully that’s becoming more rare.
It appears he is back up and running now as well as regularly commenting on the 850/620 blog. Glad to see he is healing up from his accident.
Tar Heel Wife watches the Howie Mandel resurrection vehicle “Deal or No Deal” on NBC where people go through the process of opening up cases which hold dollar amounts ranging from $1 million to $1. At the beginning of the show they choose one case to hold onto and then open the rest with every one they open, the dollar amount revealed comes off the board. At certain points a “banker” offers them some amount of money to walk away. So if $1 million is still on the board and the odds are good they might have that case, the banker will offer them a high amount of money to walk away. Sometimes they decide to go for it, turn down $250,000 and open another case which ends up being the $1 million case and so the banker then offers them $40,000 instead because the highest number left on the board is $80,000.
This is basically what Brandan Wright is looking at. According to Hoops Hype if Wright is taken #3 we would make $2.9 million in his first season. The #1 pick, presumably Greg Oden, would make $3.6 million and Keven Durant at #2 would make $3.2 million. So Wright can take the bankers offer of $2.9 million now or wait to open the case next year. If he bolts goes #1 or #2 he gets more money but if he gets hurt or has a bad year for whatever reason he could go down and have to take less money. The difference between where he is likely to go now and the highest he could go next season is $700,000. Financially speaking that does not seem like enough to risk being injured or have his stock drop for some reason.
In my opinion this decision will come down a choice between the financial security and all of the family pressures which may be involved in that or the intangibles of college. If Wright wants to go once more into the breach of a college basketball season to play on the biggest stage with a serious shot at winning the national championshup then he will come back and enter the draft a year from now which much the same stock as his he now and a championship ring. Yes there is a risk of injury and that is really the only risk. I do not see his stock going down during the next season which means it comes down to whether Wright wants the money or the title.
Hat tip: ACC Now
I usually keep myself above frays involving hot button issues outside of sports. However, like everyone else in the nation I cannot avoid the Don Imus flap over his remarks concerning the Rutgers women’s basketball team and particularly one remark made by one of the players.
“It kind of scars us. We grew up in a world where racism exists, and there’s nothing we can do to change that,” said Matee Ajavon, another member of the team. “I think that this has scarred me for life.”
No actually having your college life disrupted, your athletic career prematurely ended, and your reputation profoundly destroyed by a false accusation of rape and the overzealous actions of a power hungry prosecutor is the textbook definition of a life scarring event. I have no point of reference to know what a minority person feels when an offensive phrase is used like this but I would imagine that it is far from being a life scarring event.
And if it is, does that not mean you are letting the bigots win?
ACC Now has a summary of the awards handed out to the Tar Heel players last night at their team banquet. It was mostly what you would expect with the exception of one that caught my eye.
Dewey Burke … Foy Roberson Award for special contributions
Now which contributions are we talking about here. Was it being the guy to put the Heels over 100 points on at least two occasions thus guaranteeing the happy fans at the Dean Dome two sausage biscuits for a dollar? Or was it the fact he kept Tyler Hansbrough from maiming Gerald Henderson after “The Foul” during the last home game against Duke?
Probably both and a nice little recognition for “Biscuits”
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