Sunday, November 29, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
A Little Extra "Hop" in Stanley's Step
From Mike Anthony, Hartford Courant
November 26, 2009
"It's hard for me to, due to privacy, as I should have about my players," Calhoun said. "It's a medical reason Stanley off the court. I would hope you don't have any misconceptions with Stanley. It was a medical situation he needed medication for. It had nothing with him being a wild kid or not going to class. I've read those things and it's completely so far from the truth. He's a great kid who had incredible focus problems. Just problems. Bottom line is ... he's always been a happy kid in certain ways, but sometimes he's a sad kid, too. He's a great kid. He finds joy playing again. That's really nice to see.
"The situation where he was not being able to do a lot of things focus-wise, otherwise, and everything was going to pot to be quite honest with you.
Stanley is on Adderall! This is tremendous news. Forget focusing...you just took one of the best all around athletes in college basketball and legally hopped him up on amphetamines! This is great news. Take it from someone who is prescribed this shit, "Diet Coke" doesn't go far enough in qualifying it's effects. Sweet Jesus, the man is going to be unstoppable! I tend to have a problem with it making my heart race...let's just hope Stanley doesn't end up like this. What, they make one 30 for 30 doc and all of a sudden it's "too soon" again...?
November 26, 2009
"It's hard for me to, due to privacy, as I should have about my players," Calhoun said. "It's a medical reason Stanley off the court. I would hope you don't have any misconceptions with Stanley. It was a medical situation he needed medication for. It had nothing with him being a wild kid or not going to class. I've read those things and it's completely so far from the truth. He's a great kid who had incredible focus problems. Just problems. Bottom line is ... he's always been a happy kid in certain ways, but sometimes he's a sad kid, too. He's a great kid. He finds joy playing again. That's really nice to see.
"The situation where he was not being able to do a lot of things focus-wise, otherwise, and everything was going to pot to be quite honest with you.
Stanley is on Adderall! This is tremendous news. Forget focusing...you just took one of the best all around athletes in college basketball and legally hopped him up on amphetamines! This is great news. Take it from someone who is prescribed this shit, "Diet Coke" doesn't go far enough in qualifying it's effects. Sweet Jesus, the man is going to be unstoppable! I tend to have a problem with it making my heart race...let's just hope Stanley doesn't end up like this. What, they make one 30 for 30 doc and all of a sudden it's "too soon" again...?
Friday, November 27, 2009
Really?
I just saw this commercial during the Pitt/WVU game. This will be our first non college basketball post. Damn it's good though...
UConn/Duke Part 9 - The Live Blog
4:30 - Geez, I feel like shit. I got tested for Swine Flu on Wednesday, and they said I don't have it, but they are liars. That means this will be the first Live Blog where I'm not intoxicated. Let's see if the delirium from whatever flu I have makes up for my normal alcohol related punchiness. Should be interesting...
On another note, how 'bout the Tiger Woods car crash, huh? Geez, Tiger, you don't have to emulate Hogan in every way. How was alcohol not related at almost 3am on Thanksgiving - Is Tiger really that good of a person?
5:00 - I HATE Duke. Hate, Hate, Hate them. That said, I don't see how they can lose this game today. UConn looked wayyyy better than they really are against an undermanned LSU team. I mean, LSU had to play a white guy...with red hair! This is supposed to be big time college basketball, for christsakes!
The big question: What are the odds Stanley shows up for two consecutive games?
5:10 - Dicky V says there is a tentative agreement between UConn and Calhoun for a five year extension. I'm glad to hear that, but it's hard to imagine anyone would want to work for Jeff Hathaway. The big donors hate Hathaway but love Calhoun and Auriemma. Hathaway basically only speaks to Edsall as he is normally too busy tounging President Hogan's balls.
5:15 - Ryan Pierro is sitting directly behind the UConn bench - who the, how the, what the fuck!?! Lots of face time in the early going...he will corner people in bars and tell this story for years to come.
5:18 - Stanley with a fancy flush to put UConn up 16-14. Dick Vitale loses his mind, possibly has a brain aneurysm.
5:37 - The Chuckwagon...With the Follow!
5:38 - Singler picks up his third. Plumlee just got his third as well. Hey, Coach K, didn't Calhoun teach you a lesson about keeping players with two fouls in the first half on the bench? Tisk, tisk...
5:43 - Brian Zoubek is such a chode
5:45 - Is it bad that Jimmy just got T'd up and I don't care? The man can do no wrong in my eyes.
5:54 - Well that sucked - At the half, Duke 37 UConn 28
6:10 - Vitale just compared Plumlee to "the great shot blockers...the Bill Russell's, the David Robinson's..." wow - easy does it, Dicky.
6:30 - Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
On another note, how 'bout the Tiger Woods car crash, huh? Geez, Tiger, you don't have to emulate Hogan in every way. How was alcohol not related at almost 3am on Thanksgiving - Is Tiger really that good of a person?
5:00 - I HATE Duke. Hate, Hate, Hate them. That said, I don't see how they can lose this game today. UConn looked wayyyy better than they really are against an undermanned LSU team. I mean, LSU had to play a white guy...with red hair! This is supposed to be big time college basketball, for christsakes!
The big question: What are the odds Stanley shows up for two consecutive games?
5:10 - Dicky V says there is a tentative agreement between UConn and Calhoun for a five year extension. I'm glad to hear that, but it's hard to imagine anyone would want to work for Jeff Hathaway. The big donors hate Hathaway but love Calhoun and Auriemma. Hathaway basically only speaks to Edsall as he is normally too busy tounging President Hogan's balls.
5:15 - Ryan Pierro is sitting directly behind the UConn bench - who the, how the, what the fuck!?! Lots of face time in the early going...he will corner people in bars and tell this story for years to come.
5:18 - Stanley with a fancy flush to put UConn up 16-14. Dick Vitale loses his mind, possibly has a brain aneurysm.
5:37 - The Chuckwagon...With the Follow!
5:38 - Singler picks up his third. Plumlee just got his third as well. Hey, Coach K, didn't Calhoun teach you a lesson about keeping players with two fouls in the first half on the bench? Tisk, tisk...
5:43 - Brian Zoubek is such a chode
5:45 - Is it bad that Jimmy just got T'd up and I don't care? The man can do no wrong in my eyes.
5:54 - Well that sucked - At the half, Duke 37 UConn 28
6:10 - Vitale just compared Plumlee to "the great shot blockers...the Bill Russell's, the David Robinson's..." wow - easy does it, Dicky.
6:30 - Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Cincy
That little Mick has quite a squad this year. Granted I just watched them beat up on an overrated Maryland team (but then again, what ACC team isn't overrated?), but this is a team which is SO much better than anticipated.
Deonta Vaughan is a real talent, and this year he actually has players around him. Sophomore Yancy Gates is really good. I didn't even remember him from last year. And freshman Lance Stephenson is going to get better every game - I thought he was a scatterbrained kid last year at Lincoln, but he can be really good. I am pleasantly surprised. Gates/Stephenson have a chance to be the best forward combo in the Big East by year's end (I'm sure I just forgot someone), and a real force if they both stay in school next year.
As a team I'm not sure how deep they are, but we'll see. Definitely talented.
That will be all, I just wanted to call them out as being really good so I can recall this post all year. Damn I know basketball.
Deonta Vaughan is a real talent, and this year he actually has players around him. Sophomore Yancy Gates is really good. I didn't even remember him from last year. And freshman Lance Stephenson is going to get better every game - I thought he was a scatterbrained kid last year at Lincoln, but he can be really good. I am pleasantly surprised. Gates/Stephenson have a chance to be the best forward combo in the Big East by year's end (I'm sure I just forgot someone), and a real force if they both stay in school next year.
As a team I'm not sure how deep they are, but we'll see. Definitely talented.
That will be all, I just wanted to call them out as being really good so I can recall this post all year. Damn I know basketball.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Live Blog- UConn v. Toothpaste
5:30 - I'm going to be honest with you...I am absolutely coming down with some kind of cross between the swine flu and strep throat. I should be sitting at home and asleep early rather than abusively drinking. But much like Jordan, it won't keep me from playing tonight. If there's a game, I'm bringing it- and unlike Jordan I won't need to push off to hit the game winner. I'll be on fire all night, or, more likely, until my iPhone runs out of batteries, gets lost, or is dropped in a pitcher of beer.
There's a lot of easy Colgate jokes to make, for now I'm going to refer to them as Toothpaste, but if they start five Caucasians I'm changing to The White Strips.
Also, I love Toothpaste getting like 28 tonight. They return all five starters and get another guy back who was injured all last year.
6:05 - Just saw AI getting waived by the Griz. The highlight? The footage of AI sitting next to Marcus Williams on the bench - two dead point guards!
7:05 - I have been ordered by the powers that be to drive. Ah the perils of SUV ownership. I was also ordered to clean up the inside of my car (homeless people operate in cleaner environments). I point out that clean is a relative term
8:00 - arrive at Ted's. People want to get food...I disagree. Two pitchers of beers, food is for pussies. Let's go ladies....
9:00 - did the game just tip? Because Chris just opted to let the bartender choose our shots and she picked smirnoff raspberry. Let that be a lesson to u kids- choose your own shots.
910 - the game did tip. At least we didn't have to stand up and clap for that first basket bullshit.
915 - walking to Gampel. I miss college. Not for the people or community but for the nice fall days that = sorority chicks with black spandex and Uggs.
917 - Mack asks 2 hot chicks if they want tickets. From their reaction he may as well have asked them if they wanted to get raped.
924 - Mack asks, "who are we playing?...harvard?". I respond, " no there's only 4 white guys on the floor". And Chris follows with "no- there's no Asians starting"
927 - #13 on colgate is so white he looks like he stars in "Sons of Anarchy."
935 - you know how Duke has it's fans on the floor? Well I just counted 93 open lower bowl seats...on the other side of the arena.
937 - Le Moyne, errr Colgate, takes a 23-22 lead. So this is what sodomy feels like...
940 - Mackinnon asks what uconn is ranked. I respond "14". He says, damn, what is Colgate ranked, 5?
943 - Chris tells me about how the old Uconn cheerleading coach was getting BJs as a prison guard. Take it easy Eric Hayward, ohhhh!
945 - Jimmy takes his jacket off as we trail 24-26. I would rather get an enema than be a player in that locker room
946 - a girl walks in with a Jasper Howard tshirt. She's lucky she hasn't been stabbed yet...too soon?
946 - a trooper just walked in with a police dog...I hope i don't smell like pot too much
949 - Tim Higgins is having a great game
951 - if Stanley misses another free throw he can go back to Ruslyan and Prime Materials...
954- at the half it's... a...ball..game???UConn33, Toothpaste32
956 - as we wonder what the fuck is going on, for the first time that it doesn't relate to the bball team, 2 dozen burka clad and barefoot dancers come to center court and start dancing to Indian music. Fuckin slumdog millionaires out there. Whatever happened to hot chicks in spandex? The basketball was bad enough- we don't need
this shit.
1000 - they look like the Indian backup dancers for either A: the Indianapolis Colts, or B: a super faggy Indian version of the seton hall dancers
1013 -We just upgraded from the last row in 207 to eight rows behind uconn bench. When it's quiet I can hear Jimmy curse.
1017 - the Uconn dance cam : helping homosexuals outta the closet since 1998
1023 - we just made it on the uconn timeout cam. Mack will spend the next 5 minutes telling us what he would have done if he realized he was on camera
1025. If we lose cue the courant headline "Foyle-d Again". Sure he hasn't played there in 10 yrs but that's gold Jerry, gold!
1026 - sticks off glass- cue Billy raftery!
1027 - Timmy higgins wants his lucky charms back...
1032. This game is over. What a lousy effort at a cover. I need sons of anarchy to step it up
1033 - Gavin Edwards on another tip back! His dad Earl played in the NFL
1034 uconn62, colgate44. Cue me and Ben cheering vociferously for Colgate
1035- what's womens basketball? I keep hear the announcer talk about it in timeouts but I've never heard of said activity
1039. Send it in Stanley!
1041. Donnell Beverly is getting minutes. Bad sign for you, colgate
1045- hey, Jonathan Mandeldove, I recognize you from the Electric Blue!
1050 - uconn up 19 and colgate misses a bunny but gets fouled. But he's white so u know he's good from the line
1051. After a missing the first of two free throws, Mack suggests coombs-mcdaniel will "blow a line before he makes one from it"
1053. And were out. Looks like a cover!
There's a lot of easy Colgate jokes to make, for now I'm going to refer to them as Toothpaste, but if they start five Caucasians I'm changing to The White Strips.
Also, I love Toothpaste getting like 28 tonight. They return all five starters and get another guy back who was injured all last year.
6:05 - Just saw AI getting waived by the Griz. The highlight? The footage of AI sitting next to Marcus Williams on the bench - two dead point guards!
7:05 - I have been ordered by the powers that be to drive. Ah the perils of SUV ownership. I was also ordered to clean up the inside of my car (homeless people operate in cleaner environments). I point out that clean is a relative term
8:00 - arrive at Ted's. People want to get food...I disagree. Two pitchers of beers, food is for pussies. Let's go ladies....
9:00 - did the game just tip? Because Chris just opted to let the bartender choose our shots and she picked smirnoff raspberry. Let that be a lesson to u kids- choose your own shots.
910 - the game did tip. At least we didn't have to stand up and clap for that first basket bullshit.
915 - walking to Gampel. I miss college. Not for the people or community but for the nice fall days that = sorority chicks with black spandex and Uggs.
917 - Mack asks 2 hot chicks if they want tickets. From their reaction he may as well have asked them if they wanted to get raped.
924 - Mack asks, "who are we playing?...harvard?". I respond, " no there's only 4 white guys on the floor". And Chris follows with "no- there's no Asians starting"
927 - #13 on colgate is so white he looks like he stars in "Sons of Anarchy."
935 - you know how Duke has it's fans on the floor? Well I just counted 93 open lower bowl seats...on the other side of the arena.
937 - Le Moyne, errr Colgate, takes a 23-22 lead. So this is what sodomy feels like...
940 - Mackinnon asks what uconn is ranked. I respond "14". He says, damn, what is Colgate ranked, 5?
943 - Chris tells me about how the old Uconn cheerleading coach was getting BJs as a prison guard. Take it easy Eric Hayward, ohhhh!
945 - Jimmy takes his jacket off as we trail 24-26. I would rather get an enema than be a player in that locker room
946 - a girl walks in with a Jasper Howard tshirt. She's lucky she hasn't been stabbed yet...too soon?
946 - a trooper just walked in with a police dog...I hope i don't smell like pot too much
949 - Tim Higgins is having a great game
951 - if Stanley misses another free throw he can go back to Ruslyan and Prime Materials...
954- at the half it's... a...ball..game???UConn33, Toothpaste32
956 - as we wonder what the fuck is going on, for the first time that it doesn't relate to the bball team, 2 dozen burka clad and barefoot dancers come to center court and start dancing to Indian music. Fuckin slumdog millionaires out there. Whatever happened to hot chicks in spandex? The basketball was bad enough- we don't need
this shit.
1000 - they look like the Indian backup dancers for either A: the Indianapolis Colts, or B: a super faggy Indian version of the seton hall dancers
1013 -We just upgraded from the last row in 207 to eight rows behind uconn bench. When it's quiet I can hear Jimmy curse.
1017 - the Uconn dance cam : helping homosexuals outta the closet since 1998
1023 - we just made it on the uconn timeout cam. Mack will spend the next 5 minutes telling us what he would have done if he realized he was on camera
1025. If we lose cue the courant headline "Foyle-d Again". Sure he hasn't played there in 10 yrs but that's gold Jerry, gold!
1026 - sticks off glass- cue Billy raftery!
1027 - Timmy higgins wants his lucky charms back...
1032. This game is over. What a lousy effort at a cover. I need sons of anarchy to step it up
1033 - Gavin Edwards on another tip back! His dad Earl played in the NFL
1034 uconn62, colgate44. Cue me and Ben cheering vociferously for Colgate
1035- what's womens basketball? I keep hear the announcer talk about it in timeouts but I've never heard of said activity
1039. Send it in Stanley!
1041. Donnell Beverly is getting minutes. Bad sign for you, colgate
1045- hey, Jonathan Mandeldove, I recognize you from the Electric Blue!
1050 - uconn up 19 and colgate misses a bunny but gets fouled. But he's white so u know he's good from the line
1051. After a missing the first of two free throws, Mack suggests coombs-mcdaniel will "blow a line before he makes one from it"
1053. And were out. Looks like a cover!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Live Blog
I will be live blogging the UConn/Colgate game from inside Gampel Pavilion on Monday. And probably from Ted's and Husky's too... Look for the blogging to kick off around 8pm and to get sloppy somewhere around 9pm
Friday, November 13, 2009
Thoughts from William&Mary
-Oriakhi and Coombs-McDaniel are the best package deal since Dirk Diggler was busing tables while charging 5 bucks to see his dick and 10 bucks if you wanted to see him jerk off.
-Alex Oriakhi is a beast. He's bigger than Gavin Edwards, and Gavin isn't of slight build...after all, his father Earl played in the NFL! I absolutely have an Oriakhi hard-on.
-William & Mary routinely threw a "whitewash" on the floor. Even Sammy Sosa thought they looked obnoxiously white.
-Bob Picozzi says the word "penetration" so frequently it's like him and Wenzel have some kind of over/under on how many times he says it.
-At the half: UConn37, WM31
-Not sure who is cursing more right now...Jimmy C in the locker room or (as I flip over to the Celtics/Hawks game) KG as he abuses Zaza Pachulia in the post, gets fouled, and screams motherfucker 14 times on the way to the line. I love KG...
-You will want to bet heavily and often against UConn this year. College basketball gambling is all about the point guards and we start a sophomore, then have a bunch of freshmen and Donnell Beverly. Oyyy...
-Final: UConn75, WM66. NOT GOOD
-Alex Oriakhi is a beast. He's bigger than Gavin Edwards, and Gavin isn't of slight build...after all, his father Earl played in the NFL! I absolutely have an Oriakhi hard-on.
-William & Mary routinely threw a "whitewash" on the floor. Even Sammy Sosa thought they looked obnoxiously white.
-Bob Picozzi says the word "penetration" so frequently it's like him and Wenzel have some kind of over/under on how many times he says it.
-At the half: UConn37, WM31
-Not sure who is cursing more right now...Jimmy C in the locker room or (as I flip over to the Celtics/Hawks game) KG as he abuses Zaza Pachulia in the post, gets fouled, and screams motherfucker 14 times on the way to the line. I love KG...
-You will want to bet heavily and often against UConn this year. College basketball gambling is all about the point guards and we start a sophomore, then have a bunch of freshmen and Donnell Beverly. Oyyy...
-Final: UConn75, WM66. NOT GOOD
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
UConn 47,968 - AIC 12
You can't take much from these exhibition games, aside from three top players, but hey - at least we didn't get Le Monye'd.
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