BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -– “From the Swamp” will press on regardless in the coming months, despite the fact that the off-season in Flyerland is rife with rumor, innuendo and straight up BS --
and those are its admirable traits!
I get the distinct feeling that we won’t know who Archie and crew plan to sign with one or both of the two remaining scholarships available to them for next year…
until we know! What else is new, right?
Meanwhile, we will always have the links:
-- SB*Nation ranks all 67 of the 2015 NCAA Tournament games:
http://www.sbnation.com/college-bask...wisconsin-duke
-- A slideshow of how every one of the 67 teams not named Duke reacted to their elimination from the NCAA Tournament:
http://www.sportingnews.com/photos/4...n/slide/313837
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Rush the Court looks at what went right and what went wrong in this year’s Big Dance, with the lack of an A-10 team playing on the 2nd weekend included in the latter:
http://rushthecourt.net/2015/04/13/o...source=twitter
-- On a decidedly more optimistic note,
Rush the Court includes UD in its “Never Too Early Top Five (and More)”:
http://rushthecourt.net/2015/04/15/o...source=twitter
-- The official mixtape of 2016 recruiting target Mamadou Diarra, the young man from what used to be Putnam Science Academy who coaches Miller and Griffin watched perform in an open gym last week:
https://twitter.com/NBBSquad/status/...823744/photo/1
-- The metrics for this ranking of “College Basketball’s Best Fans” from a website called Ticket City might need a little tweaking if you ask me:
http://www.ticketcity.com/news-artic...best-fans.html
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The Wall Street Journal looks at how Duke saved its season:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-duke...son-1428423379
-- Speaking of the Dukies, here is photographic evidence of just how truly massive Jahlil Okafor’s hands really are:
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebaske...fors-hands-are
-- How “One Shining Moment” became the National Anthem of college hoops:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/erikmalinows...9o4#.adwRo2vMJ
-- According to
TSN Mike, the only “Smart” thing for Shaka to do was to take the Texas job:
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-bas...medium=twitter
-- From the AAU circuit, the cautionary tale of Elevate Basketball does nothing to improve the shady rep that grassroots hoops has in many corners:
http://www.si.com/college-basketball...wn-david-kelly
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ESPN the Magazine takes an in-depth look at the sad and mysterious ending of former UTEP Head Coach Jason Rabedeaux:
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/stor...emains-mystery
-- The coolest and most creative drone photography that you will see all day:
http://www.wsj.com/video/the-coolest...1D217F80B.html
-- Video documentation that clearly, chimpanzees are not the biggest fans of said drone photography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_zw8h4epQM
-- I think it goes without saying that it could not have been easy to be Andre the Giant:
http://www.cbssports.com/general/fea...ndre-the-giant
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“The Not-So-Sweet Tweet of the Week” is a screen shot of the worst Yelp review ever written:
https://twitter.com/MrScottEricson/s...91748393041920
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at:
swampy@udpride.com