BEVERLY HILLS (MI) –- The last month or so has been totally filled with road trips for yours truly. First, I drove the future Dr. Younger Swampette down to UNC for a month-long Orthopedic Surgery rotation. Then Mrs. Swampy and I travelled to Pittsburgh and back for a wedding. We then ferried the FDYS to Chicago for another month-long rotation at Northwestern. The following weekend, I journeyed back to exurban Boston to scatter my father’s ashes over his favorite fishing spot and celebrate his life with my family. Now Mrs. Swampy and I are on the road yet again, this time to Stone Harbor, NJ and a much-needed, late-summer week on the beach.

I’m using my frequent driver miles to pay for the trip.

Before I go, it’s time to fire up the laptop and see what the intrawebs have to provide in the way of tasty linkage:

— Dave Telep at ESPN.com provides the rules of engagement for the fall recruiting period that just commenced:

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/basketball/mens/story/_/id/6945023/overview-fall-contact-period

— Shannon Russell of The Cincinnati Enquirer did a nice Q&A with Archie recently:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110904/SPT/109050324/Coaching-runs-Miller-family?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CXavier

And Shannon provided a few more queries and replies from both Arch and Chris Mack here:

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/xavier/2011/09/05/more-from-chris-mack-archie-miller/

— Prime Flyer recruiting target Eron Harris of Indy is visiting UD this weekend. If you haven’t seen any video on the kid, check out his summer highlight mixtape:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfjmdRNSEX8&feature=share

It would be sweet if Eron gave Arch a verbal commitment before he headed home on I-70.

— Young Mr. Harris pulls in at #10 in the unbelievably loaded State of Indiana Class of 2012, according to InsidetheHall.com:

http://www.insidethehall.com/2011/08/26/indiana-class-of-2012-rankings-2/

— Looks like Tamron Manning of Kentucky will be playing his hoops somewhere other than Dayton, as he never did get the offer he was looking for from the Flyers:

http://blogs.courier-journal.com/jodydemling/2011/09/06/manning-making-first-visit/

— How not to utilize Twitter when you are a college basketball player:

http://rushthecourt.net/2011/08/27/d-j-gardner-learns-the-reality-of-the-social-media-era-the-hard-way/#more-39928

— How not to run a “prep school” — recruit 16 HS hoopsters, jam them all into one apartment in West Virginia and don’t bother to provide food:

http://www.dailymail.com/ap/ApTopStories/201109061364

— The tragic tale of former super prep recruit Javaris Crittenton:

http://nationalhoopsreport.net/2011/08/30/the-sad-tale-of-a-good-kid/

— And now for something completely different – Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, as performed by a mariachi band!

http://www.dump.com/2011/07/23/originally-by-pink-floyd-this-was-performed-by-mariachi-cabos-video/

— Having worked at CNN for 10+ years, I have always held a rather low opinion of Rupert Murdoch. Vanity Fair provides a detailed account of the phone hacking scandal cover-up that manages to make him look even scummier than I ever thought possible:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/10/murdoch-201110

— That’s not a crocodile. Now this, this is a crocodile!

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/09/05/villagers-pull-one-ton-crocodile-out-creek-in-philippines/?test=faces

— What happens when you combine soap bubbles with ferrofluids? This:

http://vimeo.com/28304264

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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