Posted by Iroquois Plisken
John Wooden dead at age 99. The coaching world has lost Hercules. He was an inspiration to many, many coaches and players, and nobody meant more to basketball in a majority of the country (Adolph Rupp, Dean Smith, etc. excluded) than he did.
We here at PLS offer our heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Wooden for making NCAA Basketball as prestigious as it is today. Make no mistake, when Florida defeated UCLA in the consecutive years of 2006-07, it was a big deal. Don't think the significance was lost on the players, either.
Requiescat in pace.
Showing posts with label college basketball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college basketball. Show all posts
Friday, June 4, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Upcoming Attractions
by Slate Quicksilver
This upcoming week is one that should have you giddy like a 13 year old before a Jonas Brothers concert.
Why?
We will have the PLS OFFICIAL BRACKET CHALLENGE OF EXCELLENCE, EXPLOSIONS AND EXTRANEOUS EXAMPLES OF WORDS THAT START WITH "EX!" (/cue face melting guitar riff and explosion), we will have a PLS exclusive recap of the US Men's Curling National Championship Draw (seriously we were there) and an informative entry on how to curl.
Plans are being designed on the PLS bracket competition featuring our brackets and several gimmick brackets (mascot battle, weight of letters, our moms) which we will report on vigorously. Also, maybe half expect a weekend Final Word (!) next Sunday recapping the tournament.
Here's a little music to get you jacked up to the point where running through a 5 foot thick concrete barrier would be the only way to satisfy your lust for destruction! If you can make it two minutes in without throwing your computer through a brick wall, you are a champion.
So get excited people, and we'll see you down the road.
This upcoming week is one that should have you giddy like a 13 year old before a Jonas Brothers concert.
Why?
We will have the PLS OFFICIAL BRACKET CHALLENGE OF EXCELLENCE, EXPLOSIONS AND EXTRANEOUS EXAMPLES OF WORDS THAT START WITH "EX!" (/cue face melting guitar riff and explosion), we will have a PLS exclusive recap of the US Men's Curling National Championship Draw (seriously we were there) and an informative entry on how to curl.
Plans are being designed on the PLS bracket competition featuring our brackets and several gimmick brackets (mascot battle, weight of letters, our moms) which we will report on vigorously. Also, maybe half expect a weekend Final Word (!) next Sunday recapping the tournament.
Here's a little music to get you jacked up to the point where running through a 5 foot thick concrete barrier would be the only way to satisfy your lust for destruction! If you can make it two minutes in without throwing your computer through a brick wall, you are a champion.
So get excited people, and we'll see you down the road.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
24 hours of...
by Slate Quicksilver
ESPN has been showing 24 straight hours of college basketball on their network to celebrate the "opening" of a new season of the sport. Of course, the season started a while ago and some teams lost in that "fake" part of the season that apparently did not exist. Feel bad for Monmouth University who woke up this morning to play at 6 A.M. because ESPN said do it or you won't be on TV this year. Oh, and they lost.
Anyway, this site will have a caring interest in this sport, but we are of thought that this is still football season. Football season is king right now and when it comes to basketball, we can't be bothered unless it is a big matchup. Right now, most teams are devouring cupcakes from Eastern Northwest Southern State Technical Agriculture Colleges/Automotive Technical Repair Repositories. Granted, some teams actually have tough schedules before January 1. However most of those are the juggernauts (North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State...).
Anyway, we hear at PLS thank ESPN for reminding us of the other season. However we could not think of this without thinking about the failed ideas that could have been shown on 24 hour-loop.
Here are a few that were bounced around in the Quicksilver household:
24 Hour coverage of...
The Scrabble World Championships
Replay of Louisville-Syracuse from 11/14/2009 that resulted in a 10-9 Loovil victory
Regional Speed Reading Trials
MTV Real World vs. Road Rules Marathon (wait... I'm sure this has already done before because MTV assumes that their average viewer has the intelligence of a cement mixer. And they assume correctly)
County Level Spelling Bee Mosaic
WNBA Preseason Marathon
CSPAN Debate-off
Paint Brand Drying Speed Runs
A Jar of Mayonnaise
Collection of Nicholas Cage's last 12 movies
Ben Stein Reads Sun Tzu's "War and Peace" in front of a White Wall
ESPN has been showing 24 straight hours of college basketball on their network to celebrate the "opening" of a new season of the sport. Of course, the season started a while ago and some teams lost in that "fake" part of the season that apparently did not exist. Feel bad for Monmouth University who woke up this morning to play at 6 A.M. because ESPN said do it or you won't be on TV this year. Oh, and they lost.
Anyway, this site will have a caring interest in this sport, but we are of thought that this is still football season. Football season is king right now and when it comes to basketball, we can't be bothered unless it is a big matchup. Right now, most teams are devouring cupcakes from Eastern Northwest Southern State Technical Agriculture Colleges/Automotive Technical Repair Repositories. Granted, some teams actually have tough schedules before January 1. However most of those are the juggernauts (North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State...).
Anyway, we hear at PLS thank ESPN for reminding us of the other season. However we could not think of this without thinking about the failed ideas that could have been shown on 24 hour-loop.
Here are a few that were bounced around in the Quicksilver household:
24 Hour coverage of...
The Scrabble World Championships
Replay of Louisville-Syracuse from 11/14/2009 that resulted in a 10-9 Loovil victory
Regional Speed Reading Trials
MTV Real World vs. Road Rules Marathon (wait... I'm sure this has already done before because MTV assumes that their average viewer has the intelligence of a cement mixer. And they assume correctly)
County Level Spelling Bee Mosaic
WNBA Preseason Marathon
CSPAN Debate-off
Paint Brand Drying Speed Runs
A Jar of Mayonnaise
Collection of Nicholas Cage's last 12 movies
Ben Stein Reads Sun Tzu's "War and Peace" in front of a White Wall
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