Best Sign of the Day: "You Have STD's" Freaking Brilliant. Subtle too--scribbled on a piece of notebook paper. The best material is always understated.
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What draws Australians to St. Mary's? Can the Gaels' Aussies get together to form a Men at Work tribute band? Mary's at Work? Stick around...we've got twenty two more hours of this.
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55 visitor Dan Mal compared Omar Samhan to the menacing Monstars from "Space Jam." Hard to disagree:
Samhan is thankfully not from Australia--he'd kill the buzz for our tribute band.
How long before high school nostalgia breaks out at Wyckoff Street? Two hours and forty six minutes. Facebook pictures of girls who hit their peak attractiveness in pre-Katrina America are being analyzed more than the Gaels' 42-19 Cortez-esque raping of the Aztecs.
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And then there were four. T-Goods, is checking out until lunch time. We'll miss his discussion starters: "favorite war," "favorite historical figure," and, of course, "top five hottest girls from the high school class of '05."
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Did ESPN send an intern to ask Bob Knight if he'd be willing to participate in the marathon festivities with Digger and Bilas? I'd say chopped meat, but that's better suited to describe the interns sent to work for Steve Phillips.
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Steve Fisher once coached the Fab Five, now he's getting killed by Omar Samhan. Life works in funny ways...just ask Mike Jarvis.
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ESPN continues to flaunt those two night games...I feel like I'm crossing the Delaware River and seeing a billboard for California. We'll get there eventually, we just have to stomach a few more washed up coaches, and semi-bored broadcasters.
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Random observations:
Saint Mary's is attempting to mimic Notre Dame's parking lot end zones with their own little parking spaces behind the base lines. Is that a touchdown Mary I see behind the hoop? Nope...it's an Australian flag--no joke. I guess that explains the migration trend.
I'm kind of tired of holiday commercials. It's not even Thanksgiving! Can a man watch college basketball at 3:23 AM without thinking about how much he's going to drop on christmas presents next month?
San Diego State is making this a game. The more athletic of the two teams also made better adjustments at the half.
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And then there were three...briefly. Mike crashed, but he rebounded. We're looking for a strong second 21 hours from Mikey Solid.
Hey Andy Katz--we just hit up your Twitter. Give us a free plug!
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I was about to make fun of Saint Mary's for living in the Patrick Mills era--then I realized Rutgers gets caught up romanticizing the days of Quincy Douby. At least Mills made a tourney, no offense to Q.
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Omar Samhan: 15 points, 16 rebounds. Possible nicknames: "Enter Sam-man" or "The Sam-man Can?" We've seen him make some nice passes in the low post, he just had a sweet block, but he has yet to dunk. Give us a Sam-slam!
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Big Dan's going for the triple double:
10 cups of coffee (each with a blast of liqueur), 10 beers, 10 meals. He's at 3 cups of coffee, 2 beers, 2 meals.
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Who is Bill Kurelic, and why is his name all over ESPN's bottom line? How does one get "in the know" when it comes to college recruiting? Does this Kurelic guy sit in a dark room next to Joe Lunardi's bracket-cave and dial up high school parents across the fifty states? If Lunardi writes up his brackets on pizza boxes, Kurelic draws up his recruiting lists on Primanti Bros. sandwich wrappers.
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The final 66 seconds--Mary's easily covered their 7 point spread. And for those who took the over on dorky Gaels' fans wearing Kanye West glasses: congrats, there was one pair sighted in the crowd, exceeding the over/under of none.
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Game over. Thanks. Stay tuned for Hawaii hosting Northern Colorado.
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