Washington State’s players must be feeling badly this morning. Not only because they have to go to school at Washington State (Which is probably enough to make most people suicidal anyway), but because the Cougars blew a five-point lead with just 25 seconds left to undefeated Stanford. A win would have put Dick Bennett’s Cougars on the map. Instead, Washington State is still off the map, where they always have been.
However, we did get a quote of the week from Bennett. Speaking about the officials, who didn’t see a Cougar player trying to call a timeout before a crucial five-second call, Bennett said the following:
“They blew it…”
Too bad a dog didn’t say it, or Jim Edmonds would be all over that.
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Illinois goes for its first outright Big Ten basketball title since 1952 Sunday at Ohio State. If the Illini can win, it would mean Illinois will have won ten straight games. Against all the other ten schools in the Big Ten. Which is named the Big Ten because it has eleven schools. Or something.
Another great statistic about how good this Illinois run has been: The last time Illinois won AT Iowa, AT Indiana, and AT Purdue? The year was 1937. Heck, the Cubs have won a pennant since that happened.
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Speaking of the Cubbies, they were on ESPN yesterday as they played the Raging Steroids, err, Giants in Arizona. This game mattered so much, Matt Clement went after flyballs and grounders at 10 percent, which is much lower than his normal average of 15 percent. When was the last time Matt looked like he was trying hard? Seriously, I want to know…
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We all want to eat healthy, right? Well, one person thought the best way to eat healthy was to serve a “thumb” salad.
I don’t think I want to go eat lunch now .
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To conclude, Kansas forward Wayne Simien says he is going to return to Kansas . Kansas fans should count on him returning, he hasn’t said he is “jacked” about playing next year at Lawrence yet. If he had, then we all know Simien was going to eventually announce his decision to go pro. Because people “jacked” about next season decide to go to other places. Okay, this Self reference stuff is going nowhere, let me just link up the story:
That’s all I’ve got, and if that last analogy is any indicator, I’ve definitely emptied out my trash barrel. Until next time, wear orange. Or at least drink orange juice.
Well, that worked. Except for the fact I still can’t get links up. If you want to know the addresses for the stories I was attempting to link, I’ll post the addresses later. Thanks.
Hey, no problem.
Here are the addresses to the "thumb salad" and Simien stories:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,113389,00.html
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=1751304
Enjoy.
You can get on a guy for not hustling in the regular season, but in the first spring training game in bad conditions? On a ball that’s not eve his? Give Clement a break.
I was trying to note that, most of the time, Clement seems to have the same qualities during regular season play.
Illini Fever, I’ve got it, of course I’m a FAN. Their season is turning out like I had hoped for after some rough spots earlier and could get ALOT more exciting. Next year should be even better. Its great to see these kids coming together as a TEAM, they are really looking confident now. Weber is THE MAN.
No "thanks."
Meant to add a "?" at the end of that last post.
Are you actually stealing Andy Dolan’s jokes? They are funny when he uses them. They are not funny when you use them.
Andy, is that you?
A.J., go back to being the overachieving 6-2 power forward in a guard body you are in real life. Or something. A.J. is the one major college player not a walkon I actually think I could compete with on the basketball court, at least for five to seven minutes anyway.
I will have my college basketball title sleeper column for you Monday or Tuesday, so you can fill out your brackets picking teams I don’t…
ILL……………………
INI!!!
I’ll continue..
I-L-L….
Once more with feeling…
INI!!!
First off Matt, #9 was not me. My Indiana Hoosier handle will always be Marty Simmons.
Secondly, it was pretty impressive to hear the couple thousand Illini fans chanting I-L-L…I-N-I loud enough to be plainly heard during the CBS coverage.
Am I the only one who thinks that should Illini win the Big Ten tournament that they’d be worthy of a two seed?
I mean, it’s hard to argue with 25-5 and both Big Ten titles.
Then, again, if they’re going to lose, they might as well lose on Friday night and get a full week’s rest before the NCAAs.
Well, Andy, you, and me. Everyone else thinks they’re a #4.
No matter. It’s not where you start, but which announcing team ends up doing your final game.
I hope it’s Jim (What a moment!)Nantz and Billy (I’m not dead yet) Packer announcing our last game in a big dome in Texas.
There, is that easy to figure out what I want for the Illinois basketball team?
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