It’s windy, cold and snowy and about to get a helluva lot windier, colder and snowier. Time to sit down at the ole PC and warm up the keys with some Flyer Factoids and miscellaneous tidbits:

— The pictures of UD students camping out for tickets to the Xavier game brought back some memories of waiting for tix to UD games at the Fieldhouse, before the arena was built:

http://www.daytonflyers.com/xmens_basketball/XUtickets.html

Back then, we didn’t have tents — they existed, we just couldn’t afford ’em — only sleeping bags and dorm room mattresses. There would always be long lines, especially for the big games. Good times.

— What a class gesture by BG to order 150 pizzas and have the players deliver them to the freezing students. Smart move by the ticket office to avoid having the kids stay outside all night, even if the ticket distribution did end up being unfairly executed.

— Adam Waleskowski is gaining a reputation as a ‘big game’ player. Twice he has been instrumental in FSU knocking off Dukie V’s favorite team and most recently he did the same to #7 Wake Forest, with his career high of 16 points. Vitale did mention Keith and called him a “star at Dayton and the MVP of the Maui Classic.”

— This year’s winner of the “MusketeerMadness Message Board Moron Award” is somebody who calls himself “stUD.” He’s making lots of friends on the MM MB with his incessant taunting and trash talking. The inhabitants of Planet X seem to be staying away from the 2 Flyer MBs for the most part, tho. Kinda hard to do much woofin’ over here when your team commands sole possession of last place, ain’t it?

— To all those who complain about UD’s inability to put teams away, resulting in consistently close ballgames, I would imagine that our friends at X would gladly take a few of those narrow victories right about now, don’t you?

— The Younger Swampette has decided she’s going to Michigan. She’s passing up a preferred walk-on spot on the Loyola of Chicago softball team to do it. The coaches at Michigan told her she’ll have to try out in order to play there. Her older sister also got accepted to U of M, but opted to attend UD instead. Good choices by both girls.

— I’d say it’s about time for ESPN to televise a UD/X game from the UD Arena again, wouldn’t you? And bring that knucklehead Vitale with you this time guys!

— I’ve had to do some difficult things in my life, but few of ’em were tougher than putting our dog to sleep. I know it was for the best, but it still hurts.

— Patriots 35, Panthers 7. Big day for Tom Brady.

— Flyers 72, Xavier 63. Big day for KW.

— I just started a new job right after the 1st of the year as Detroit Manager for MediaAmerica, a network radio advertising sales firm. If you know anybody who wants to buy some ads in NASCAR, NFL, College Football or Sirius Satellite Radio, have ’em email me!

— They didn’t specify what condition Louisville’s Rick Pitino has that prompted his medical leave of absence, but said it was “urological related” and not prostate cancer. I’ll bet Coach P more than likely has kidney stones, which a friend who suffered thru them likened to a guy having to “give birth thru your unit.” Ouch.

— Nice write-up about potential Class of 2005 UD recruit Chris Douglas-Roberts of Detroit Cass Tech HS on the Prep Spotlight website:

http://www.prepspotlight.com/index.pl/home?wid=86&func=viewSubmission&sid=1228

If you don’t feel like reading the article, CD-R’s line in the boxscore says it all — 34 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists. Sign ’em, BG!

— Talk about being sufficiently vague, here’s a quote from St. Joe’s — errr — ESPN’s Joe Lunardi of Bracketology fame:

“The Flyers are getting next to no attention in the Atlantic 10, despite an unblemished conference record. That will change with both Xavier and Richmond visiting over the next 10 days.”

What will change? The lack of attention or the unblemished conference record? We’ll see.

— BTW, Joe, we all have February 11th circled on our calendars.

That’s it “From the Swamp”