BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — With the Flyers having notched their final victory of the year vs. Ole Miss, it’s time for “FTS” to say so long to 2011 as well with an end-of-the-year closeout sale on links. These prices are only good until midnight tonight:
— Here’s an Atlantic 10 website I hadn’t seen before called Pickin’ Splinters, that provides coverage of the both the men’s and women’s Flyers’ squads:
http://www.pickinsplinters.com/
A tip of the “FTS” cap to Matt Schwade at FlyerHoops.net for the find.
— RushtheCourt.com checks in on the Oceanic Dozen plus Two:
http://rushthecourt.net/2011/12/29/checking-in-on-the-atlantic-10-conference-2/
— Coverage of last week’s UD/UIC game, courtesy of poetic Flyer Fan Michael Miller and The Mid-Majority:
http://www.midmajority.com/p/2357
— Here is some video from the Nike All City Series of 2012 PG/SG Geovonie McKnight of Middletown HS, who has visited UD Arena this season:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bB2xmZ1QXO4
— If Archie is in the market, there is another Chicago HS star guard looking to transfer out of his college choice — Crandall Head at Illinois:
— Speaking of transfers, as if things couldn’t get any worse at URI
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
Established: 1892
Location: Kingston, RI
Enrollment: 18,061
Type: Public Land Grant Research
Affiliation: None
Nickname: Rams
Colors: Navy Blue and Keaney Blue, leading scorer Jamal Wilson has been invited to leave Kingston on a permanent basis by the Rams’ standing-on-shaky-ground Head Coach Jim Baron:
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2011/12/jamal-wilson-di.html
— Former Flyer Assistant Jon Borovich posted his latest blog at College Chalk Talk:
http://collegechalktalk.com/coachesDiary/northern_illinois/2011-12/12.26.11borovich
Note that the action pic in the article is one of JB on the floor at UD Arena.
— Pat Forde now at Yahoo Sports provides a profile of UD’s first conference game opponent’s Head Coach — “Thick” Rick Majerus:
— If the punks at Gangsta U want a clue as to how to be a good role model, teammate and properly represent their university, all they need to do is click on the following link. It’s a piece on Andre Drummond at UConn, who volunteered to become a walk-on and pay his own way so that teammate Michael Bradley could regain the scholarship that Jim Calhoun yanked from him — in order to sign Drummond!
— UC is 4-0 since the “Crosstown Brawl”; XU is 1-3. Karma? You betcha!
http://www.zagsblog.com/2011/12/26/cincinnati-now-4-0-since-the-brawl/
— Turns out that there is no correlation between Finals Week and the Christmas Break and a potential letdown on the performance of favored teams, according to the Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective:
http://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/the-exams-and-christmas-letdown-myth/
— The best basketball TV commercial evah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exZuVO3PEbM
— HS recruiting phenom Alex Kline of The Recruit Scoop (who is still in HS himself) is headed to Syracuse:
http://www.zagsblog.com/2011/12/25/alex-kline-to-syracuse/
Good choice, as SU has a killer J-School.
— The New York Times opines that we should start paying college athletes. From a purely monetary standpoint it’s hard to argue with their logic:
— Sports Illustrated has released their 2011 Media Awards for the best and worst in print, TV, radio and online journalism:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/richard_deitsch/12/28/media.awards/index.html
— What better way to end the year than with fashion guru and “Hockey Night in Canada” analyst Don Cherry tinkling the ivories at the piano desk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJp5-g69go&feature=player_embedded#!
Somewhere in Toronto, a bordello is missing their red velvet draperies.
Happy New Year Flyer Fans!
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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