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 | kaycee [email] said at 7:26 PM 03-25-2006:
hows denver treating you these days? |
 | kate [email] said at 7:28 PM 03-25-2006:
I just got the CHILLS!!!! yay!!!! |
 | rick [email] said at 7:36 PM 03-25-2006:
For the first time since 1985, I think. |
NathanK said at 8:29 PM 03-25-2006:
Watching Memphis and UCLA, I don't think either can stop LSU. |
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| kate [email] said at 8:53 PM 03-25-2006:
hheeeeeee.....and i've been watching unc all season!!! |
 | katie [email] said at 8:30 PM 03-25-2006:
1986, Rick.
back when Dale Brown used to get thrown out of games for arguing with referees.
Yee-haw and Geaux Tigers!! |
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| katie [email] said at 9:16 PM 03-25-2006:
it's funny, i've read that one about fifty times, too. it was one of my favorites as a wee lass. |
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| rick [email] said at 9:19 AM 03-26-2006:
It has amazing quotes like when Bob Knight says any question about Dale Brown should be referred to a psychiatrist and Dale Brown asking a reporter if he masturbates when the reporter asked Dale Brown if the team was simon-pure. And of course the columnist who said he would kiss Dale Brown's ass in center court if the Tigers won twenty games. |
 | andrew [email] said at 7:26 AM 03-27-2006:
My mom walked into the office at McKinley one time and Bobby Knight was in there. He used to recruit a lot of players out of McKinley. He probably did it to piss off Dale Brown. |
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| rick [email] said at 8:36 AM 03-27-2006:
Bob Knight has a reality television show now. The funny thing is, a few years ago, I was reading an interview with him and he was being asked about his notorious angry outbursts. At first, he was very bland and urbane about it but then at some point,during the interview, he exploded and began yelling and the interviewer had to ask him to try to calm himself. Maybe Indiana was right to let him go, I thought. |
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| andrew [email] said at 10:36 AM 03-27-2006:
I think one time during a game he punted a basketball into the stands. |
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| andrew [email] said at 10:40 AM 03-27-2006:
Indiana was definitely right to let him go after he choked his own player, I mean come on. |
nelson. said at 1:00 PM 03-27-2006:
Didn't Keith Smart, the guy who hit the jumpshot to beat Syracuse and win the national championship in '87, go to McKinley? |
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| andrew [email] said at 1:09 PM 03-27-2006:
yeah. his brother used to substitute teach my math class. |
 | nelson [email] said at 12:52 AM 03-27-2006:
We were only two Fess Irvin freethrows away from going to the Final Four in '87, too. It's too bad that whenever Fess' name comes up, people always bring up those missed freethrows. He was an incredible player who contributed a lot to LSU that year, but he ended up transferring to James Madison after that season. |
NathanK said at 2:47 AM 03-27-2006:
The laughter roared on when point guard Derrick Taylor, a black from Baton Rouge, did a pinpoint accurate imitation of the speech Brown, a white from Minot, N.D., made before the Georgia Tech game in Atlanta.
"If I was a dog and I got run over by a car and I'm bleeding from my stomach on the street, do you know what I'd do?" Taylor said, annunciating every word in crystal clear diction as Brown does.
"I'm thinking, where is he going with this?" Taylor said back in his softer voice. "We were all just sitting there like, 'What? What?'"
Then in Brown's voice, Taylor said, "I'd bite that car's tire. Now, let's go!"
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| nelson [email] said at 1:19 AM 03-29-2006:
People used to call Dale Brown "The Great Motivator".
Give 'em a ragtap group of kids, and he'll find a way for them to succeed.
His teams never fared as well when he had bonafide stars(i.e. Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Jackson), but he pulled off some of the more remarkable upsets in college basketball with mid-level players in the '80's. |
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| andrew [email] said at 6:42 AM 03-27-2006:
The way the PA guy would say his name was awesome "Fesssssssss Irrrrrvinn".
I used to see Dale Brown walking around the neighborhood every now and then and he would wave. He's kind of a reclusive enigma now, I think he had a minor stroke or something, but he did recently say some nice stuff publicly about John Brady. I used to like how he would go on those ridiculous quests, to find Noah's Ark, to find Bigfoot, to survive for a month in the Amazon jungle wearing only a jockstrap. One day I was fishing by his house and I saw him walk out to feed the ducks with this enormous black guy he was recruiting, it had to have been either Shaq or Stanley Roberts. |
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| andrew [email] said at 6:52 AM 03-27-2006:
My other favorite Dale Brown tactic was when he would get himself thrown out of games on purpose to pump up the team. Then grab the PA, "No matter how bad the officiating is, please do not anything on the court." |
NathanK said at 12:47 PM 03-27-2006:
That tactic really seems to work. I also like how Dan Borne, the announcer who'd say "fesssss ivrin", would play the voice of God, and say things like, "Two wrongs do not make a right," after a double technical. |
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| andrew [email] said at 1:10 PM 03-27-2006:
i meant to say please do not throw anything |
 | myriam [email] said at 10:11 AM 03-26-2006:
You can't stop those tapeworms! |
 | nathan [email] said at 7:32 PM 03-26-2006:
George Mason is intense - they kept their heads together for their entire game. Hopefully Florida can wear them down a little before they reach the final. |
Bob said at 2:03 AM 03-27-2006:
GAGH! Well, I suppose the Patriots saved us from a Huskies/Tigers matchup that would have torn our little household apart but still... GAGH! |
NathanK said at 2:23 AM 03-27-2006:
My take is Uconn lost by trying for five 3s in OT and making one, where JM continued to go for the lane. Other than for desperation shots, the three is very overused, particularly when in the NCAA tourney, teams are drawing shooting fouls in the lane in the last five minutes on every other play. |
NathanK said at 2:35 AM 03-27-2006:
Jorge Mason |
nelson. said at 12:43 AM 03-27-2006:
I haven't been this happy about LSU basketball since I was seven years old and I watched Ricky Blanton kiss a lay-up off the glass over the outstreched arms of Kenny Walker of Kentucky. That was the biggest upset of the 1986 tournament, and it was the last time LSU was in the Final Four. I think Big Baby and Tyrus Thomas are going to take LSU all of the way for the first-time ever this year.
YOU GOTTA BELIEVE! |
 | boudet [email] said at 12:27 PM 03-27-2006:
OHHHHH YEEEEAAAHHHH!!!! |
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| nathan [email] said at 2:25 PM 03-28-2006:
The women's team shot 48% last night to advance to the final4. The men's team shot 42% against Texas. |
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| nathan [email] said at 2:37 PM 03-28-2006:
The only men's team that shot higher in the elite 8 was George Mason. |
anotherben.. said at 7:28 PM 03-31-2006:
wahoo! | |
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