Know how to settle this dispute? A rousing game of one-on-one. If Scott wants to tip the scales in his favor, he may want to ensure the game heavily involves free throws.
Biter: A rock that just barely touches the outside of the house.
An obligatory shameless Bowling Green item, granted, but it was good to see BG's men's basketball team — by no means a quality one — win in the final seconds against South Alabama, 65-64. It should be noted that the University of South Alabama's acronym would technically be USA, but it might be less confusing to call them the U. of SA. How Borat-y.
Hack: The "starting block" from which the thrower pushes off to begin the delivery.
Mike Vanderjagt is panhandling outside my office holding a sign saying, "WILL SHANK FOR FOOD."
Hammer: The final rock of the end.
This one's actually a curling item. No, wait, don't go!
Sunday afternoon had some boring football games, and NBC had a boys vs. girls ultimate supreme match between Pete Fenson's Olympic team and Debbie McCormick's world championship runners-up team. So an improbable series of events had my TV on NBC rather than Fox or CBS.
Team Fenson won big, mostly because boys rule and girls drool. But the women's honorary team captain, Picabo Street, was allowed to throw the hammer in the final end since the score was out of reach. Her delivery was a tad shaky — no more so than mine, for what it's worth — and the sweepers took it right to the tee line. Damn, those women are awesome.
It should also be noted that according to the announcers, Street had never curled prior to that day. Anyone who can throw tee line weight — world-caliber sweepers or not — on their first day can join my team.
Article comments
1 - berkeley joe
Matt, Matt, Matt, in ref: the UH Hawaii bowl situation. NOTHING would please us more here in Hawaii for our Warriors to go to a big time mainland bowl and play a higher caliber opponent, trust me. but this is not a matter of UH "cherry picking," this is a matter of UH being able to get into a bowl game at all. you prolly don't recall, but a few years ago, UH had an excellent year, finished at 9-3 I believe, BLEW OUT byu by about 50 points at home, and, because there was no local bowl that year, sat at home, bowlless. How could this be, you ask? well, because the university of Hawaii football program does not, as they say, travel well. No bowl in its right mind is going to take Hawaii if they can avoid it, because people don't fly out from Honolulu to see a mainland football game. Add to that that the WAC has just about no pull on the college football landscape and you have your answer, which is, basically, UH needs this bowl game, or else they sit home and twiddle thumbs, no matter how well they do. also, the bowl game needs UH, because in years that UH doesn't play in it, of course, attendance drops through the toilet. quid pro quo, clarice.
2 - Matthew T. Sussman
I think that had to do more with lack of WAC bowl tie-ins than no bowl in Hawaii. And I feel ya -- in 2001 and 2002 BGSU went 8-3 and 9-3 respectively, and no bowls either year.
To be fair Boise is a repeat offender of this practice as well.