Honestly, if you thought, even when the one-legged guard threw in the thirty footer to end the half, that Illinois was going to lose to Farleigh-Dickinson, raise your hand. Yeah, I thought so.
As I was watching Wake Forest fall behind Tennessee-Chattanooga by ELEVEN in the first half of their game, I noticed that Wake just looked they were trying to blow the Mocs out. They were taking too many threes, making too many daring passes and eventually they reigned it in and blew past them for the win.
Arizona did the same thing against Utah State.
Then, Illinois did, too. It’s a danger in the first game. You’re a top seed and you’re playing a team that knows it’s only got 40 minutes left. Sometimes, that team comes out overwhelmed and gets beat by a 1,000 points. Sometimes they fall behind early then make a token run and get beat by 40. Sometimes they are able to put up a fight for a half. That’s what Illinois got last night.
But there were too many good signs to get too worried. Dee Brown found his range and his swagger. James Augustine got tired of watching long rebounds bounce over his head and actually started boxing guys out and ended up with 15 boards. Luther Head clamped down on defense and started literally ripping the ball away.
The Illinois team we’d been missing showed up in the second half.
On Saturday, they’ll play a Nevada team that can not shoot. Sure the big guy can, but the guards all want to ram the ball in within 12 feet. That won’t work. The blowout we missed last night? We’ll get it on Saturday.
The tournament is all about matchups, and Nevada doesn’t.
Of course, I’m the same guy who picked LSU to get to the sweet sixteen. Yeah, they didn’t even show up yesterday. So what do I know? Nothing, apparently.
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OK, now for the news we’ve been waiting for for EIGHTEEN years. Hub Arkush is gone! Fired. Canned. Kicked out of the Bears radio booth. Good, he can go play grab ass with David Terrell in some other town.
Ed Sherman proves he’s a moron by decrying the loss of Hub. But have you ever talked with anybody who thought Hub served any useful purpose in that booth? He was a constant Bears’ apologist, and while he would from time to time summon up the gnads to criticize the team he would immediately back off when given a chance to confront the player, or coach who was the target of his rare scorn when it was time for the post-game interviews. His commentary was always pointless, always self-serving and never of any value, either educationally or for entertainment. He was a sucking leech on the Bears for nearly 20 years and will not be missed, not even for a second by anybody with a brain in their heads.
The guy who ought to be worried is Jeff Joniak, the talentless play-by-play guy who will now get all of the scorn, instead of just most of it. Jeff forgets little things during the broadcasts, you know like the score, or what yard line the ball is on, or what down it is. Other than that, he’s aces.
Here it comes again, with that anti-fluff piece with the great Dusty quote. I mean, who fucking CARES if Hawkins turned the channel to MTV? Who cares if he yelled at the TV? Why the hell are they writing articles about that? It’s so freaking stupid, and not certainly not worth anybody’s time. The sports media is such a bunch of pearl-clutching pantywaists.
It sure was a moving moment yesterday (my bowels) as McGuire was crying about the loss of life related to steriod use. I really liked it when he said his foundation, with three million of HIS own dollars in it, was going to switch from helping abused kids, to teaching them how to abuse steriods or something. Mark is my hero now – both sensitive and a slugger!
For clarity’s sake (why would anyone want to do that around here), Mac never invoked me. You have to specifically invoke me if you’re going to use me. Now he can say that when he was brought before congress he never invoked his 5th ammendment right. Pretty smart…Until he realizes it backfired the second time he spewed the “I’m not here to talk about the past…” garbage. And it got worse from there.
Why doesn’t Congress want to know if **I’ve** ever injected anything? C’mon, where’s the love? Barney? Wazzup….
Good news Mark, I’m positive!
If Scott Petersen had testified in his own defense during his recent trial that he wasn’t “here to talk about the past”, maybe he wouldn’t be on Death Row.
Then how would Peterson get all these marriage proposals?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/17/peterson.prison/index.html
He’s getting more action than The Paul Popovich Experience.
I don’t know Dave, Scott’s a very good liar. I mean, he fooled me, and I’m practically a genius!
Although Curt Schilling appeared mealy-mouthed before Congress, I predict that when he retires he will be re-packaged by a Karl Rove type and someday will be sitting on the other side of the room as a right-wing darling Congressman. I can see the bloody shirt (socks) on his campaign posters now!
Uh, Fifth Amendment,
You don’t actually have to say the words “I invoke the fifth amendment”, you can not be compelled to incriminate yourself, and can refuse to answer such questions. By saying he wouldn’t talk about the past, McGwire invoked the fifth amendment whether he said the magic password or not.
When you walk outside and hang out with four other guys you don’t have to invoke the first amendment, you just do it.
Sorry, Congress, “Fifth Amendment” is correct. The Congressional Panel let McGwire slide. He could have been held in contempt for refusing to answer questions unless he specifically claimed Fifth Amendment protection. But when Congressman Cummings specifically asked McGwire if he was claiming the Fifth, the Chairman jumped in and excused McGwire from having to do so. I wonder if you or I would get the same protection if our time comes.
Yep, I am still here folks. In fact, my dead was a ranger and his nephew was in delta, and special forces as well. In fact, I got to stump for the pres right around the same time Jesus was helping me k als. By the way, my kids hate direct sunlight…so, why did I move them to Arizona?
Oh, I’m here too.
Sure have gone down alot, haven’t I ? Even before the injury to my ankle… hmmmm….. oh well, at least my wife didn’t die from melanoma. Wait a second, why did I move her to Arizona?
Oh well, at least I don’t have to testify in front of Tom Lantos.
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