but if f the death of Hawgball has you down, you might as well root on the UALR Lady Trojans tonight as they take on Oklahoma (in Norman) in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament. This is a pretty good article about the great work Joe Foley and his team have done in The Rock.
Anybody know how to say "Go ahead punk, make my day" in Chinese?
If any corporation can take on the world’s largest and in many ways most powerful country, it’s Google. The most popular search engine/email provider/technology guru has stopped filtering their popular engine in China. They are now directing Chinese users through Hong Kong.
Bravo to Google for standing up to Chinese censorship. Hopefully Google won’t lose too many advertisers based on this action – which would be the only reason I can see why they would stand down in the face of Chinese government pressure.
Memphis must vacate its record 38-win men’s basketball season from 2007-08 after the NCAA rejected its appeal.
The NCAA announced Monday that its Infractions Appeal Committee ruled against Memphis, which was found to use an ineligible player, believed to be Derrick Rose. The Tigers lost in overtime to Kansas in the national title game that season.
How many of you thought that the new guy would do a full-fledged sports-related post about Cornell University?
Yes, you all know that it is an Ivy League school. But, how many of you know where Cornell is? (Answer below…)
I’m certain that everyone knows that the Big Red joined the Sweet 16 by defeating Wisconsin 87-69. But did you also know that this is the first Ivy league school to make the Sweet 16 in 31 years? (Penn was the last.) Did you also know that 13 players and managers all live together in an off-campus house called the “Dog Pound?” Big Red trivia. Feel it, live it.
So why is this the greatest weekend in Cornell sports history? The Big Red also scored runner-up to the University of Iowa in the NCAA D-I Wrestling Tournament on Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. If you follow wrestling at all, you know that second to the Hawkeyes is as good as winning it all. In fact the Hawks had their third NCAA title in a row wrapped up before the wretle-backs (consolation rounds) started. Iowa and Cornell faced off twice in the final round. Cornell’s Kyle Dake won the first one with a 7-3 decision over Iowa’s Montell Marion at 141. Later, at 174, Iowa’s Jay Borschell, the #2 seed in the tourney defeated Cornell’s #1 seeded Mack Lewnes 6-2. At the risk of further boring the non-wrestling-fans I need to point out that Lewnes had not been taken down once all season prior to Borschell doing so… twice. This is an incredible statistic. Takedowns are very common in wrestling and to go 30+ matches without being taken down once is incredible.
Anyway, congrats to the Big Red fans out there. Big weekend.
Answer: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, C. Everett Koop, Keith Olbermann, and Jimmy Smits would all direct you to Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca, New York.
For those of you who might not be as long in the tooth as we are, Bryce Drew was the Valparaiso guard who hit a miraculious shot to beat Ole Miss in the 1998 NCAA Tournament.
Drew was selected by the Houston Rockets in the First Round of the NBA Draft and was waived by the New Orleans Hornets after bouncing around for 6 years. This All-Star Team is named after those like Drew who raised their game to great heights and became temporary household names during the NCAA Tournament and seemingly were never heard of again. The leading 2010 candidate poised to add his name to the list is BYU’s Jimmer Fredette (great name, great game, Great White Hope)
Without further ado, Ladies and gentlemen, your starting five for the Bryce Drew All-Stars:
G-Bryce Drew
This is one of the best devised and executed plays in basketball history:
G-Donald Williams
Williams was the shooting guard for the 1993 NCAA National Championship North Carolina team. He was red hot for the entire tournament (including a Sweet 16 win over emerging potential dynasty, Arkansas) and won the Most Outstanding Player award after putting up 25 points in the title game (the infamous Chris Webber time out game) while hitting 5 of 8 three pointers. Williams never played in the NBA.
F-Scotty Thurman
It pains us to include Scotty on this list. Scotty’s shot no doubt sealed the National Championship for the Hogs in 1994. Scotty and Corliss Williamson led the Hogs back to the title game in… Ok, we’re just going to stop. It’s depressing.
F-John Wallace
Wallace led a vastly undermanned Syracuse team (“The Cuse is in Da House, Oh My God, Oh My God, team) to the 1996 National Championship game (a loss to Kentucky). Wallace is one of only a few players in NCAA history to have 2000 career points and 1000 career rebounds. He played 7 years in the NBA before retiring averaging 7 ppg and 2 rpg for his career.
C-Pervis Ellison
Ellison was the second freshman to ever lead its team to a National Championship while earning Most Valuable Player honors. “Never Nervous Pervis” had one of the greatest nicknames in College Basketball History, although if I were him, after getting those braces, I would have been a bit nervous every time I heard the word ‘orthodontist’. He joins John Wallace in the 2k point/1k rebound club. Various injuries prevented Ellison prom playing in more than 80% of his NBA games.
Bench:
Cameron Dollar–UCLA
Ed O’Bannon–UCLA
Charles O’Bannon–UCLA
Tyus Edney–UCLA
Toby Bailey–UCLA
George Zidek–UCLA
Steve Alford–Indiana
Bobby Hurley–Duke
Alaa Abdelnaby–Duke
U.S. Reed–Arkansas
(Thanks to KB for submitting most of this–it’s a fun angle)
The Hogs open SEC play tonight at LSU. Just a few reasons why this is huge:
LSU is #1 in the nation, Hogs #15 (depending on which poll you look at.)
LSU knocked Arkansas out of the CWS last season in Omaha.
LSU is the defending national champion.
This is the opening SEC series at LSU’s new $30M Alex Box Stadium.
The whole series is being televised on CST.
OK, I’m no sports fanatic like my brother, AB but this is going to be awesome. Because of this series and because my Hawkeyes are dominating the NCAA
I dare you to tell even the 120 pounder on this team that wrestling is fake.
wrestling tournament (again) I just added the sports and info tier to my already ridiculously expensive Cox Bundle. The finals are on ESPN-U.
Back to baseball. Apparently LSU’s ace is out for the series with an injury. Good news for Hog fans but LSU is deep. And they have a beautiful new stadium to defend from invading Hogs.
Go Hogs. Go Hawks.
(Oh and I hear there’s some other NCAA tournament happening this weekend too. How’s your bracket look? I called one upset. Notre Dame. Never take a football school in the basketball tourney. Other than that, I’m in bad, bad shape.)
Paula Abdul may be close to taking on the new Star Search. With the popularity of Idol and America’s Got Talent it’s surprising to me that it took this long to dust off the original American talent show.
No word yet on whether The Gong Show will resurface. Who should host that? I vote either Gilbert Gottfried or Chris Kattan.
That’s what happens when you take it upon yourself to make videos like this (It’s all Golden, but it’s Platinum starting at the 2:38 mark):
They won’t say it, but I think it’s because they now know he got his nickname more accurately describes the Hurricane swirling in his head, as opposed to the way he plays football.
You will first be directed to a login page. Then, the password is bloghawgs. Sorry for the dead link earlier this week.
The winner gets bragging rights unless anyone can think of a legal way for us to have a little friendly wagering–I don’t think such a way exists. Anyway, sign up and try for 2nd, because I am sure I will win.
Maybe it’s because I am a high school teacher. Maybe it’s because my wife is a classically trained singer and music teacher. Either way, I am not ashamed to admit that at the Hagers’ house, we miss Glee. Even our 2 year old loves the show. “I want Gee!” He’s still working on two consonant sound production. If you haven’t seen it, Glee is a one hour musical/drama/comedy on Fox that features some very talented singers and some hilarious plot scenarios and twists. Apparently they are going on tour as well. Not sure my addiction is that bad.
The story is that Will Shuster is a high school Spanish teacher (Gee… why would I be interested in this?) that also sponsors the Glee Club. He is tormented by the cheerleading sponsor, Sue (played by the awesome, Jane Lynch) and by his own wife. The kids in the club have their own issues as well. In fact, watching it makes me wonder if Adam thinks “this would never happen” while he watches Law and Order or other lawyer shows.
Anyway, such is my addiction to this pithy little mind-number that when I saw these spoilers, I had to share. (Neil Patrick Harris is guest starring and Kristen Chenowith is reprising her guest role as well.) As guilty pleasures go, it’s pretty fun. The music is great and as I said, Jane Lynch rocks.
Top 20 Most Valuable College Basketball programs.
I haven’t researched it, but I bet there isn’t another team in America (OK maybe Hoops Hysterical Indiana) that has gone 14-16 (2-14) and 14-18 (7-9) and drawn 10,000 a game on average in this economy, much less pushed 15,000. That’s without even factoring in that the UA has won THREE NCAAT games in the last 14 seasons.
I am certainly not calling for any kind of statement from the fans, but I can see why UA Athletic Director Jeff Long really hasn’t done much to shake things up. He doesn’t have to do so.
Relative to its performance and the support received by the rest of the league and the country (Arkansas has led the SECW in attendance the last 16 seasons and has been a fixture near the top of the entire league), the Razorback fan base has……(wait for it)–”overachieved”.
Those numbers don’t reflect rear ends in seats (it’s tix sold….but so are everyone else’s #s) and they are a year behind. That said, Arkansas was in the Top 10 in attendance nationally from 1994-2001.
While a 3,000 seat dropoff the past season (13,282) is significant, I don’t think it is nearly as bad as what you would see at most major programs following a 2-14 conference season last year and a spate off subsequent off-court problems and dismissals/suspensions.
And, my guess is that in this economy, 13,282 this year will be between 15-20, nationally.
I think that track record is pretty salty, especially when you compare it with the on-court records during that time.
Without a doubt, the UA fan base has definitely done it’s part. It just needs something to believe in.
After seeing these results from the UA Pro Day, I can see why. First, the lack of number of potential NFL-level players is alarming, and that’s before you see that Matt Harris, a 2-year starter at safety, only put up 225 lbs 5 times.
Until the talent on that side of the ball emerges, Arkansas will not be able to make the leap to become an elite program.
You will first be directed to a login page. Then, the password is bloghawgs. Sorry for the dead link yesterday.
The winner gets bragging rights unless anyone can think of a legal way for us to have a little friendly wagering–I don’t think such a way exists. Anyway, sign up and try for 2nd, because I am sure I will win.
The winner gets bragging rights unless anyone can think of a legal way for us to have a little friendly wagering–I don’t think such a way exists. Anyway, sign up and try for 2nd, because I am sure I will win.
The Texas Board of Education has apparently succeeded in injecting conservative values and notions into some of the state’s Social Studies standards. Textbook companies will now take those standards and change the way that they describe America’s past. For example:
1. The U.S. government must be refered to as a “constitutional republic” not as “democratic.”
2. Add Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America to history books.
3. A proposal to mention in passing that numerous Tejanos were also killed at the Alamo was defeated.
As a teacher, I have been through numerous standards revisions. It is always contentious. Everyone wants to add their own spice to the stew but I’ve never heard of this level. Textbooks that come from this will be sold all over the nation. Companies will not bother making an Arkansas version for example. Also, Texas has what are called TAKS tests. These are summative exams that are given state-wide similar to Arkansas’ End of Course Tests. The difference is that Texas is ahead of Arkansas in terms of success on these tests being required for graduation. So in the next decade, Texas is going to be producing millions of kids who are required to learn that the founding fathers were Christian but not so much about the separation of church and state… or they don’t graduate.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Send your complaints dirrectly to The Gooch, and please don’t think less of me for posting it. The Gooch is hounding me, and he can be very persistent and persuasive.)
The Top Ten Greatest Backsides in Movie History
By Jim Gooch
By far the easiest list I’ve ever made. In fact, I think I’ve been subconsciously making this list for years. Call it perverted or call it a hobby (I don’t really care). I just know you’ll read it.
There are many different sizes and shapes out there to suit many differenttastes, but if you’ll notice, Jim Gooch likes a big, plump, played-a-lot-of-soccer-growing-up butt. The only criteria for this list includes is simple: female movie/tv actress (this way I can avoid the trinity of pop a– known as Alicia Keyes/Rhianna/Shakira.
Here’s the list:
10. Beyonce Knowles (her painfully bad movies keep her out of the top
5)
9. Helen Mirren (classic british ass – see Caligula)
8. Jessica Biel (the reigning queen of badonkadonk)
7. Brittany Spears (circa 2004 it was a thing to behold)
6. Charisma Carpenter (from Buffy – check out her Playboy spread
if you don’t believe me)
5. Salma Hayek (Desparado….)
4. Halle Berry (timeless backside
3. Jennifer Lopez (inspired an a– revolution)
2. Jaime Pressley (wow, just wow – see Poison Ivy 3)
1. Nicole Kidman (the only butt on the list that could not be
described as large, it is perfect, and she gets added points for the
frequency with which she’s shared it with the world over the last 20
years)
You Should Never Need an Excuse to Root Against OU
Posted by Adam Butler on March 23, 2010
but if f the death of Hawgball has you down, you might as well root on the UALR Lady Trojans tonight as they take on Oklahoma (in Norman) in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament. This is a pretty good article about the great work Joe Foley and his team have done in The Rock.
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