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Friday's List of 13: Wrapping up a basketball Thursday........(Author unknown)
13) Louisville scored 84 points despite shooting 37.7% from the floor in a 84-71 win over Marquette, which turned ball over 26 times. Cardinals had 23 offensive rebounds and nine blocked shots.
12) Its tiring listening to ESPN announcers shilling for the Big East every game; when Central Florida/SMU/Houston are in the league next season, are they still going to tell us how great every team is? South Florida has a winning conference record, but they're a horrible offensive team. Letting Pitt/Syracuse get away will eventually be regarded as a huge mistake.
11) Pac-12 tournament doesn't draw well in LA, so looks like its going to be at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas next season, which would make them the fourth league to play a conference tournament in Vegas.
10) Referee Karl Hess is working the Big East tournament; refs at ACC tournament in Atlanta were wearing "KH" on their shoes Thursday, so it looks like Hess was banished to NYC as punishment for the kerfuffle at NC State a few weeks ago, when Hess tossed a couple Wolfpack alumni out of the arena for heckling him. Alumni who played in the NBA.
9) Illinois didn't take any foul shots Thursday in a game they lost 64-61, game Illini led by 4 at the half. ESPN researchers said they're first team from a BCS league in at least fifteen years to play conference tournament game and not shoot a foul shot.
8) Erratic Washington lost 86-84 to Oregon State, making 12-26 on foul line. Beavers were just 17-32. You wonder why our Olympic team can't win the gold medal much anymore? Our kids don't shoot the ball or pass the ball as well as kids from other countries. Simple as that. Its getting to be all dribble penetration, ball screens and pick 'n roll.
7) Game of the Day was definitely in Memphis, where Marshall beat Tulsa 105-100 in triple OT, in a game where nine players fouled out and 101 free throws were taken. Tulsa took 58 foul shots and lost. Of course they missed 18 of them. Marshall plays Southern Miss Friday; the Eagles won in OT too, 81-78 over East Carolina.
6) Cal-State Fullerton handed Long Beach State its first conference loss on Saturday, then went out and laid an egg on Thursday, losing to Cal-Irvine in the first round of the Big West tournament. That not good.
5) Then there is Texas-Arlington, which went 17-1 in the Southland, but lost by 20 to McNeese State in the conference semifinals. McNeese now plays Pat Knight's Lamar Cardinals for the league championship, after Knight ripped his team publicly for being screw-ups off the court. .
4) Arizona outscored UCLA 31-10 from the foul line in its 66-58 win at the Pac-12 tournament. Very few teams looked like they were having less fun than this year's Bruins. Have a nice summer.
3) The noise you heard during the last few minutes of South Florida's win over Notre Dame was James Naismith turning over in his grave, after a series of dumb fouls, careless turnovers and hoisted-up bricks created a very chaotic ending. .
2) Was totally surprised at how easily Colorado State trounced TCU; had thought that was going to be one of the better games of the day, but Rams hung an 81-60 beating on the Horned Frogs.
1) Level of play was way better Thursday than Wednesday, unless you root for Northwestern, then level of play was same underachieving junk they've been giving for the last five decades. Duke wins, Vanderbilt wins, Stanford wins; they're all good schools, just like Northwestern- can't use the crutch that being a good academic school hurts the ballclub.
All Northwestern had to do was beat a Minnesota team that had lost six of last seven games, and didn't appear terribly interested in playing any more this season, but the Wildcats went and gagged away another game, another season. Time for a new coach, a different system; you're close to Chicago. Recruit an athletic point guard. I dare you.
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Friday's six-pack
-- You can bet the NFL would like Peyton Manning to choose his next stop before the 2012 schedule is released. Am guessing his first game in his new city is on Sunday Night Football.
-- Matt Lauer makes $25M a year to host the Today Show? Really? And we thought Vernon Wells is overpaid........
-- SEC football games averaged 75,832 fans LY, and that includes the games at Vanderbilt, where capacity is 39,773.
-- The Joe Pesci Snickers commercial is very good; if it makes me laugh when I'm having my worst day handicapping in ten years, its funny.
-- Wally Szczerbiak is way better doing analysis on games than he is in the CBS Sports Network studio. He's not afraid to offer opinions.
-- Orlando ended the Bulls' eight-game win streak; Dwight Howard had 29 points, 18 rebounds. Would be a shame the Magic traded him.
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FROM ONION SPORTS
http://www.theonion.com/articles/knicks-doctors-continue-carefully-reinjuring-carme,27395/
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Len’s Top 5
http://thatssports.com/
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Vintage Commercial -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBWVWjdNWC0&feature=related
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Actual Headline -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...ladston-georgia_n_1310844.html?ref=weird-news
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RETRO TV -
http://xoteria.com/CH64.html
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Coach has unique punishment system -
http://network.yardbarker.com/colle...d_eggs/10255432?linksrc=home_rg_head_10255432
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“A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.”
(Nik Posa.)
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Millions of spiders turn green fields white as branches and bushes are cocooned in sticky silk -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-cover-fields-cobwebs-flee-rising-water.html
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UFO caught on tape in Valley? Investigators plan to find out -
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/ufo-caught-on-tape
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Boxer dogs refuse to go to sleep -
http://www.wimp.com/boxerdogs/
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OUCH -
http://www.collegehumor.com/embed/6719631/thats-what-she-said-news-montage
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http://safeguard-jersey.com/Accident reporting schools PIC ONLY.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM7h838CCrY
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IDIOTS -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=111_1329686669
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http://www.japemonster.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/beach_04-576x438.jpg
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http://www.collegehumor.com/embed/6718550/little-girl-is-nfl-hopeful
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BBFavZBAo&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpy4oS9-Ne0&feature=related
.
Friday's List of 13: Wrapping up a basketball Thursday........(Author unknown)
13) Louisville scored 84 points despite shooting 37.7% from the floor in a 84-71 win over Marquette, which turned ball over 26 times. Cardinals had 23 offensive rebounds and nine blocked shots.
12) Its tiring listening to ESPN announcers shilling for the Big East every game; when Central Florida/SMU/Houston are in the league next season, are they still going to tell us how great every team is? South Florida has a winning conference record, but they're a horrible offensive team. Letting Pitt/Syracuse get away will eventually be regarded as a huge mistake.
11) Pac-12 tournament doesn't draw well in LA, so looks like its going to be at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas next season, which would make them the fourth league to play a conference tournament in Vegas.
10) Referee Karl Hess is working the Big East tournament; refs at ACC tournament in Atlanta were wearing "KH" on their shoes Thursday, so it looks like Hess was banished to NYC as punishment for the kerfuffle at NC State a few weeks ago, when Hess tossed a couple Wolfpack alumni out of the arena for heckling him. Alumni who played in the NBA.
9) Illinois didn't take any foul shots Thursday in a game they lost 64-61, game Illini led by 4 at the half. ESPN researchers said they're first team from a BCS league in at least fifteen years to play conference tournament game and not shoot a foul shot.
8) Erratic Washington lost 86-84 to Oregon State, making 12-26 on foul line. Beavers were just 17-32. You wonder why our Olympic team can't win the gold medal much anymore? Our kids don't shoot the ball or pass the ball as well as kids from other countries. Simple as that. Its getting to be all dribble penetration, ball screens and pick 'n roll.
7) Game of the Day was definitely in Memphis, where Marshall beat Tulsa 105-100 in triple OT, in a game where nine players fouled out and 101 free throws were taken. Tulsa took 58 foul shots and lost. Of course they missed 18 of them. Marshall plays Southern Miss Friday; the Eagles won in OT too, 81-78 over East Carolina.
6) Cal-State Fullerton handed Long Beach State its first conference loss on Saturday, then went out and laid an egg on Thursday, losing to Cal-Irvine in the first round of the Big West tournament. That not good.
5) Then there is Texas-Arlington, which went 17-1 in the Southland, but lost by 20 to McNeese State in the conference semifinals. McNeese now plays Pat Knight's Lamar Cardinals for the league championship, after Knight ripped his team publicly for being screw-ups off the court. .
4) Arizona outscored UCLA 31-10 from the foul line in its 66-58 win at the Pac-12 tournament. Very few teams looked like they were having less fun than this year's Bruins. Have a nice summer.
3) The noise you heard during the last few minutes of South Florida's win over Notre Dame was James Naismith turning over in his grave, after a series of dumb fouls, careless turnovers and hoisted-up bricks created a very chaotic ending. .
2) Was totally surprised at how easily Colorado State trounced TCU; had thought that was going to be one of the better games of the day, but Rams hung an 81-60 beating on the Horned Frogs.
1) Level of play was way better Thursday than Wednesday, unless you root for Northwestern, then level of play was same underachieving junk they've been giving for the last five decades. Duke wins, Vanderbilt wins, Stanford wins; they're all good schools, just like Northwestern- can't use the crutch that being a good academic school hurts the ballclub.
All Northwestern had to do was beat a Minnesota team that had lost six of last seven games, and didn't appear terribly interested in playing any more this season, but the Wildcats went and gagged away another game, another season. Time for a new coach, a different system; you're close to Chicago. Recruit an athletic point guard. I dare you.
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Friday's six-pack
-- You can bet the NFL would like Peyton Manning to choose his next stop before the 2012 schedule is released. Am guessing his first game in his new city is on Sunday Night Football.
-- Matt Lauer makes $25M a year to host the Today Show? Really? And we thought Vernon Wells is overpaid........
-- SEC football games averaged 75,832 fans LY, and that includes the games at Vanderbilt, where capacity is 39,773.
-- The Joe Pesci Snickers commercial is very good; if it makes me laugh when I'm having my worst day handicapping in ten years, its funny.
-- Wally Szczerbiak is way better doing analysis on games than he is in the CBS Sports Network studio. He's not afraid to offer opinions.
-- Orlando ended the Bulls' eight-game win streak; Dwight Howard had 29 points, 18 rebounds. Would be a shame the Magic traded him.
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FROM ONION SPORTS
http://www.theonion.com/articles/knicks-doctors-continue-carefully-reinjuring-carme,27395/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Len’s Top 5
http://thatssports.com/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vintage Commercial -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBWVWjdNWC0&feature=related
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Actual Headline -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...ladston-georgia_n_1310844.html?ref=weird-news
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RETRO TV -
http://xoteria.com/CH64.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coach has unique punishment system -
http://network.yardbarker.com/colle...d_eggs/10255432?linksrc=home_rg_head_10255432
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.”
(Nik Posa.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Millions of spiders turn green fields white as branches and bushes are cocooned in sticky silk -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-cover-fields-cobwebs-flee-rising-water.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UFO caught on tape in Valley? Investigators plan to find out -
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/ufo-caught-on-tape
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boxer dogs refuse to go to sleep -
http://www.wimp.com/boxerdogs/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OUCH -
http://www.collegehumor.com/embed/6719631/thats-what-she-said-news-montage
----------
http://safeguard-jersey.com/Accident reporting schools PIC ONLY.jpg
----------
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM7h838CCrY
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IDIOTS -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=111_1329686669
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.japemonster.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/beach_04-576x438.jpg
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.collegehumor.com/embed/6718550/little-girl-is-nfl-hopeful
----------
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BBFavZBAo&feature=related
----------
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpy4oS9-Ne0&feature=related
.