BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- The past two Flyer basketball games, despite the fact that they were both Ws, have driven many of the Faithful to distraction. Even the Boo Birds, who had not made their presence felt at UD Arena since Senior Night vs.
SLU last year, could be heard faintly chirping at the tail end of the East Central West Southern Connecticut game. Dang, I hate ‘directional’ schools!
Which begs the question:
What kind of Flyer Fan are you?
The Geiger Counter: When it gets hot, this fan is gonna make some noise. The hotter it gets, the louder he or she gets. Too hot and you got yourself a nuclear situation on your hands.
The Cell Phone Set on “Vibrate”: When it goes off only the fan knows because he or she keeps it all inside.
The Metronome: Back and forth; back and forth. Never stops changing direction. Annoying as hell.
The Egg Timer: When it’s all over you would never know that the time is up, because he or she doesn’t make a sound.
The Vibrator: All you have to do is turn it on and he or she is gonna feel good.
The Ball-Peen Hammer to the Head: Feels so good when you stop.
Let’s face one immutable fact that no one really ever talks about
:
All we are really rooting for is the laundry
By that I mean we cheer fanatically for the name on the front of the uniform, regardless of who’s might be on the back. When Stephen Thomas was a Flyer he was our boy, one of the thirteen; Thomas transfers to IUPUI and who cares about him any more?
As long as the laundry isn’t being cleaned by Cintas, I’m fine with the concept.
Meanwhile, in news found elsewhere on the intrawebs:
-- Okay “Hometown Coach” Mark Adams time for the truth: when Markeys Dean of CCSU (the team you used to coach) launched that three pointer for the win with only :03 left, were you hoping it was in or out?
-- It ain’t exactly
Chris Wright dunking over Maurice Acker of Marquette, but then again what is? Still, this is a pretty good cram job by Shay Shine of High Point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN8BnDYFeQE
-- Regulating college hoops recruiting in the social media age will never be confused with a day at the beach:
http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/20...ury-aint-easy/
-- NYC is not the playground hoops hotbed that it once was:
http://newsone.com/entertainment/spo...-longer-great/
-- Is Scott Drew at Baylor really recruiting an 11 year old?
http://www.ballinisahabit.net/2010/1...-year-old.html
Maybe not:
http://www.zagsblog.com/2010/12/05/b...iting-rundown/
-- Joe Posnanski profiles the one and only Dandy Don Meredith who passed away over the weekend:
http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/201...-don.html#more
-- Peter Gammons of The MLB Network is Exhibit A as to why yours truly will never be an active Twitter participant. Some of his more memorable tweets of late:
"Ilzzzsz"
"QZTcnlp"
"Cp L"
"Plops"
"Wok bm pppppppppppppppppppppppppp"
Couldn’t have said it better myself, Peter.
-- According to
The New York Times, arsenic eating bacteria are about to radically redefine the way that we all think about what constitutes life in the universe:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/sc...enic.html?_r=2
Slate magazine quotes Lee Corso: “Not so fast, my friend” maybe they aren’t:
http://www.slate.com/id/2276919/
-- There is still no cure for cancer, but a Wall Street firm has figured out how to make betting on sports like playing the stock market:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/1...le+Feedfetcher
-- The coolest pictures of water balloons at the very moment that they explode that you will see all day:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...s-explode.html
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at:
swampy@udpride.com