Tag Archive for ‘UConn’
College basketball oligarchy
The dynastic UCLA period that ended that weekend had not been good for the tournament. The Bruins even managed to win two championships in the Sidney Wicks-Steve Patterson interregnum between the lordly reigns of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton. There was a sense, always, of forgone conclusion to the proceedings. Once UCLA finally lost, though, […]
Online overkill – week of March 23
Good, bad, annoying or shady, these were the items that made frequent appearances in my RSS reader this week. Obama’s Teleprompter. The right-wing teleprompter meme has been played up so much lately, the electronic note card machine has its own blog. The blog is kind of funny, even if making fun of a president for […]
6OT Thriller
This was one of those special nights in sports, the unexpected genius of competition that causes friends to text each other wondering if they’re watching, that left a million workers bleary-eyed Friday morning because there just was no way to turn this one off until 1:22 a.m. ET brought the final buzzer. –Dan Wetzel