Since I may have a new influx of readers meandering on over to see if dantheheel knew what he was doing when he linked my blog from his I thought I might take this opportunity to clear up what might be seen as a huge contradiction.
One reading this will quickly pick up on two themes: 1) I love Arizona basketball, 2) I hate Duke basketball.
While I am sure the latter will resonate well with about 95% of my readers (sorry E.Dubb, Daner, and Grant), it's the former that may be perplexing and hard to register for some. For as one looks at my location, it is quickly noted that I reside in Tempe, AZ and not Tucson, AZ. I am a huge sports fan and know that such is similar to going to Nebraska and cheering for CU when they come to town, but I can explain (really I can).
You see, UA has been my team from the start. My late grandmother used to live in Phoenix, and we always used to come visit her down here when I was little. For some reason I thought the STATE school had to be in the smaller city, so I thought UA was in Phoenix. Thus, I equated going on vacation to Phoenix with UA, and coupled that with watching UA on TV. I was sold, and by the time I was in third or fourth grade and figured out ASU was the local school, it was too late: I was a Wildcat fan.
Now, I hadn't even planned on going to school in Arizona, so I thought I'd be alright. But when things changed course, ASU came calling with a scholarship. So that and the fact that I wasn't going pre-med, UA was pretty much ruled out. And I really feel like a stiff because I never even liked UA in anything other than bball (that's all I ever saw on TV), so I cheered for ASU this year in everything else (and in bball when they weren't playing UA). Luckily this whole problem will be resolved soon enough: I'm heading out on a two-year Church mission and will be transferring from ASU when I return, so I'll be able to unabashedly cheer for the Cats again.
So now that I have that off my chest, I'll move on to my two Colorado-sports motivated tidbits of today:
1) Don't drink from DU Goalie Peter Mannino's water bottle (See SportsCenter for reasoning)!
2) Nuggets: 21-2 in their last 23, 28-6 (15-1) Overall under Karl. Everyone better steer clear of Denver in the playoffs!
And finally: Max-X is a really funny show. Nothing funnier than people doing crazy/stupid things and a sarcastic/snide announcer to narrate. Gotta love it!
5 comments:
awww, chris feels intimidated . . . and should.
Note: Just because contradiction and intimidation both end in "tion" - that doesn't make them interchangeable. Try reading the post again and maybe you'll understand what it's all about.
what kind of dumbass doesn't know the city that his favorite team is from
George Karl working miracles, huh?...No surprise, considering where he played and who he's a disciple of.
But hey, with all the stuff wojo is learning coaching the dook big men (yes, that is his official responsiblity), I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he's following the honorable and impressive footsteps of Quin Snyder, Tommy Amaker, and Mike Brey.
Wojo coaching the big men!? Wouldn't that be like keeping Sheldon around to teach the PG's a thing or two?
Hey, easy on those coaches - haha. Quin's got a rockin' dew (and some great recruiting policies) and Tommy won the NIT for Michigan (which has to be almost as good as winning a PGA Tour event the week of the British Open). And Mike Brey - haha.
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