Well… that was one of the nuttiest things I’ve ever done. But so much fun. Totally worth it. My most memorable basketball experience since BracketBusters 2007. I hope to do a full write-up later. For now, here are two videos, neatly showing the beginning and the end. The first is of DU Bally in Laramie at 6:02 PM, watching the… Read more »
He was epic, as per usual, last night against #4 San Diego State: Yeah, I think I need to go this guy in person. Remember when Becky and I almost impulsively drove from South Bend to Spokane to see Adam Morrison and the Zags? Well, this is sort of like that, except this time, I only have to drive to… Read more »
Geno Auriemma to ESPN interviewer (and, long ago, his very first basketball superstar) Rebecca Lobo, after the Huskies’ 89th consecutive win: I don’t want my team to compare themselves to anyone. This stands on its own. I’m not John Wooden and this isn’t UCLA. This is Connecticut, and for us, that’s enough. And then he grumpily gave out a Wii… Read more »
UConn 81, Ohio State 50. Auriemma ties Wooden; the UConn women match the UCLA men. Eighty-eight straight wins. They go for record-breaking win #89 in a row Tuesday against Florida State — a team currently ranked #15, but sure to drop in the polls tomorrow after, perhaps looking ahead to UConn, they lost to 2-7 Yale yesterday — in Hartford…. Read more »
Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies women’s basketball team look to tie the 88-game NCAA winning streak record, set by the late, great John Wooden and the 1971-1974 UCLA Bruins men’s team, against #11 Ohio State at Madison Square Garden on Sunday at noon Mountain Time. The game will be broadcast on ESPNU and ESPN3. If the Huskies win, they’ll… Read more »
I’ll have more to say later (like, maybe this weekend) about tonight’s disappointing 77-66 Denver loss to CSU. For now, I’ll leave you with a video of DU Bally watching the opening tip:
They’re getting ready at DU’s Magness Arena for the big announcement this afternoon that the University of Denver is joining the WAC. I’m told there will be some pageantry, and I know there are already University of Denver/WAC t-shirts floating around. Anyway, here’s what the court at Magness Arena looked like a little over an hour ago: I’m getting ready,… Read more »
I plan/hope to launch my DU hoops blog section on November 1, to coincide with the beginning of Season 7 of Kyle Whelliston’s Mid Majority. That’s only 17 days away! But for now, I won’t be doing a write-up of tonight’s season-opening practice at the University of Denver’s Hamilton Gymnasium, nor of my interview afterward with head coach (and fellow… Read more »
I’m hesitant to uncritically read too much into Cal cutting its baseball program — also lacrosse and gymnastics — partly because I haven’t read very much about it, but also because I suspect that it may have less to do with broad #sportsbubble trends than with conditions unique to the Great Recession and the ridiculous, wolf-face crazy budgetary clusterf**k that… Read more »
You thought the conference shuffle was done after BYU declared independence? Not so fast, my friend! One week after the season started, there is word of yet another shift. Are you ready for this? Cal-Poly and UC-Davis have announced they are moving their football programs from the Great West to the Big Sky conference.
