College Basketball Quiz: Granted, the following is hard, but I’m going to give you some help. Name the seven Division I players to score 3,000 points in their career. You get the initials…and some other assistance.
P.M., F.W., L.S. (school in tourney this year), A.F. (Mississippi Valley State…easily the toughest), H.K. (no help…addicts know), K.C. (Jersey boy), H.H. (solid NBA player). Answer below.
March Madness
So after seeing the seeding for the tourney, just a few initial thoughts…understanding I have to move on. More next time before it all starts (after the Tuesday play-in games).
Yes, I too am mystified by Oregon receiving a 12-seed. I mean I really couldn’t care less but was just surprised. I would have thought 9 or 10.
David P., hoops expert and a super player at my high school alma mater, says beware of Albany.
I like Creighton’s chances to get to the Sweet 16….actually, Elite Eight.
I have no problem with Gonzaga getting a No. 1 seed. And I see them as a lock to the Elite Eight.
I really like New Mexico…they too are Elite Eight bound.
UNLV is a sleeper for Elite Eight….but surprised they received a 5.
Illinois a 7?! Give me a break. They were 8-10 in conference!!! They don’t deserve to even be there.
Florida Gulf Coast, at No. 15, is getting way too much positive press. They will get their butts kicked by Georgetown.
Butler, a 6, versus Bucknell, an 11, is a terrific matchup. The winner, however, goes no further.
So I watched San Diego State’s semifinal loss to No. 15 New Mexico in the Mountain West conference tourney and one of the San Diego writers summed it up best. “This just isn’t the team we thought it would be, isn’t the team they thought they’d be, isn’t the team they once were.”
Coach Steve Fischer said at half, “We’re just not tough enough.” Heck, 6-7 forward JJ O’Brien had 0 rebounds in 28 minutes! And when the Aztecs don’t shoot, like in 31% from the field, forget it. So I am hardly optimistic about their chances, having gone ‘all in’ this year with them. Oh, I’ll have my Aztecwear on, but I might opt for the tearaway version.
But…I wrote the preceding before they were seeded No. 7 against No. 10 Oklahoma. Now I’m reenergized!
[By the way, SDSU does have one incredible streak going. They are 91-0 when leading with five minutes to play, thanks to their lockdown defense. They just have no half-court offense this season.]
Finally, I did watch the Big East tournament final and with Syracuse up 45-29, I thought no way Louisville comes back. Doh!!! Try a 29-4 run….Cardinals up 58-49 on their way to a 78-61 win. Add me to the 67 million already recognizing Rick Pitino as a helluva coach. [Jim Boeheim not so much so.]
–Yes, there was more than a bit of melancholy surrounding this year’s Big East tourney…the end of a terrific tradition. It just really sucks.
Longtime broadcaster, and former Seton Hall coach, Bill Raftery, said before the start of the Big East final, “it is one of those uncomfortable feelings.”
“And it’s almost like you tell kids, you’ve got to get over stuff, you’ve got to move on, change is inevitable in some case. Not this type of change. It’s a little strange, really. To see something become so powerful on the basketball scene, and then brick-by-brick get taken away, I never thought I would see it. Everyone says, ‘It was a great run.’ Well, if it was so great a run, then why is it over?”
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post
“To sit in a seat at the last Big East basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden is to feel a creeping suspicion that the craven executives who call themselves athletic directors and college presidents may have gone too far, overreached. In attempting to protect their access to lobster buffets, they’ve set in motion a fundamental destruction, the kind of sand slipping away from a foundation that creates a house-swallowing sinkhole. What fools, you wonder, thought it was a smart business move to breed this disenchantment?….
“The whole idea of conferences, back when schools first formed them, was simple geography: They were loose alliances meant to facilitate competition based on proximity, and to foster deep local fan interest. Now they’ve become cable-television deals.
“It’s the scrabbling that’s so repulsive, the reek of desperation, first from the schools that succumbed to corporate raiding by the Atlantic Coast Conference, and then the shoulder-curling conduct of the Catholic Seven – DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John’s and Villanova – who have the nerve to call their abandonment of the Big East after 30 years a ‘philosophical’ move. No, it’s a struggle over ‘brand.’
“This is the scourge that is realignment: The constant shifting of alliances in quest of ever bigger paydays to offset budget shortfalls….
“ ‘The whole thing is tragic,’ (Cincinnati Coach Mark) Cronin said. ‘Nobody cares about student-athletes. All anybody cares about is money. Everybody in the NCAA, everybody in college administration, they talk about academics and student-athletes. If people cared about student-athletes, West Virginia wouldn’t be in the Big 12 with 10 teams flying 800 miles to their closest home game. That’s really conducive to studying. The whole thing is a hypocrisy….
“ ‘They economy has trickled down…so everybody’s just, ‘Well, let’s change leagues because we can solve our money problems.’ And people that suffer are the student-athletes. They’re the ones that suffer. And the fans, because, obviously, what made college sports so special is really tradition. The fact that we’re sitting here, and this is the last Big East tournament is beyond ridiculous…’
“One thing is sure: The system as it’s currently operating can’t sustain itself. Something will break – probably the audience….”
I agree with that. I don’t agree with Jenkins’ remark on the Catholic Seven. To wit….
I do agree with Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim when he says the league that will be centered around the Catholic seven “will be as good as any.” Simply, it will be the best, largely because of tradition.
–And for the archives, you had the Richmond-Charlotte A-10 tournament game on Thursday. As described by Scott Cacciola of the New York Times:
“The noon game between eighth-seeded Richmond and ninth-seeded Charlotte was the province of the hard-core fan, or at least a few hundred of them. Yet the conference had never seen anything quite like it: a relatively innocuous affair slipping into something close to anarchy with Richmond leading, 63-60.
“(Richmond Coach Chris) Mooney opted to have his team foul (Charlotte guard Pierria) Henry…to prevent him from getting a look at a potentially game-tying 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds left. After Henry sank his first free-throw attempt, Richmond’s Derrick Williams shoved Charlotte’s Willie Clayton, with whom he had been battling for rebounding position. Williams was whistled for a technical foul – a momentous call considering the time and score.
“Reggie Greenwood, the A-10’s coordinator of officials, said that because the violation occurred on a dead-ball situation, Charlotte was awarded an additional two shots plus possession….
“Henry sank all three free throws to give Charlotte a 64-63 lead, and Richmond was forced to foul. That plan quickly went awry. Richmond’s Cedrick Lindsay tried to grab Henry on the inbounds pass, but there was no call. Instead, Henry took two dribbles and drew a foul on Richmond’s Greg Robbins as he heaved up a shot from near midcourt with 2.8 seconds left.
“At that point, Mooney lost it. He ripped off his jacket and stomped to midcourt. Lindsay pushed him back to the Richmond bench, but it was too late. Mooney was called for two technical and ejected. After the officials added it all up, Henry made his way to the line for seven – yes, seven – free throws. Henry said it felt as if he were at the line for ’30 minutes.’ He made four of them.
“Mooney said he was upset because he thought Lindsay had fouled Robbins immediately.”
–Finally, as for my alma mater, Wake Forest, and the status of their coach, Jeff Bzdelik, it appears he is returning. Whatever. I’m going to enjoy the tourney and worry about the Deacs later. [Chris K. and Phil W., among others, thanks for your input.]
NFL Bytes
–So the Denver Broncos were in the process of restructuring star defensive end Elvis Dumervil’s contract (he having agreed to a pay cut to help the team with the salary cap), but the paperwork was filed with the league seven minutes too late and the Broncos were forced to cut him, because once the 1:59 p.m. deadline passed, they were on the hook for the $12 million they owed him in the original contract. Dumervil fired his agent the next day, Dumervil now a free agent. It’s possible the Broncos could attempt to restart negotiations.
–But Denver signed New England wide receiver Wes Welker, which while pleasing Peyton Manning, infuriated Tom Brady. Brady, after all, restructured his contract to free up millions in salary cap room for the express purpose of keeping key cogs like Welker.
–Note to Shu….I’m kind of resigned to the idea of David Garrard being Mark Sanchez’ main competition, but I appreciate the offer of recently released Kevin Kolb from Arizona. That was very thoughtful of you….except I doubt we can afford him. [New Jets offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg knows Kolb from their days in Philadelphia together before the QB was dealt to the Cardinals.]
But as for the Jets in general, just imagine how pissed coach Rex Ryan is. I’m guessing he wishes he had been fired, rather than deal with this coming season and a roster that within days was decimated due to free agency. I mean we are about to trade star cornerback Darrelle Revis, after losing solid safeties Yeremiah Bell and Laron Landry, plus a strong defensive lineman in Mike DeVito. And our serviceable running back Shonn Greene bolted. And both starting guards – Brandon Moore and Matt Slauson – are going to leave, too. And the tight end left…and…and…2-14 here we come! I’m guessing when we’re 1-9, Rex commits hari-kari in dramatic fashion on the sidelines after a turnover is returned for a TD.
[By the way, in a further display of incompetence, the Jets coughed up a $1 million roster bonus to Revis on Sunday, which if they trade him now goes against the cap. As in they just threw away $1 million. Either they should have reworked a contract beforehand, or traded the guy before the bonus kicked in.]
–As opposed to the dysfunctional Jets, the tenant sharing MetLife Stadium, the New York Giants, are just a terrific franchise, from the top down. They lose their tight end to free agency, Martellus Bennett, and just shrug it off. Within days they sign Oakland’s Brandon Myers, who racked up 79 receptions last season in a breakout campaign. The Giants have an amazing history at this position. Guys stick around a year, or maybe three, move on, and the GM just brings in someone else, slots them into the system, and all is good.
–I’ve lost track but the Super Bowl champion Ravens have already lost at least six starters this offseason, the most of any to win a title in at least ten years.
–I see some are criticizing the Falcons for signing running back Steven Jackson to a three-year contract because the star already has 2,395 carries on his body and he averaged just 4.1 per carry for the Rams last season.
I think it was a great move. Jackson is a special dude….know what I’m sayin’? He ain’t no Eddie “Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust” George.
Plus Jackson is a great teammate, so they say.
–NFL free agent wide receiver Donte Stallworth suffered serious burns after the hot air balloon carrying him and two other people crashed into power lines above South Florida. The 10-year veteran won’t suffer any permanent damage, according to his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, who said he will be able to resume his career…assuming someone wants him.
–The NFL’s competition committee unveiled a possible rules change in which a runner or tackler will no longer be able to initiate contact with the crown of his helmet…ergo, lowering the head, such as with a running back, to nail the defender. Instead, you’re supposed to look up, which has Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith upset, saying a penalty would be “almost impossible” to avoid. “If I’m a running back and I’m running into a linebacker, you’re telling me I have to keep my head up so he can take my chin off?”
All 32 NFL owners will vote on the rule next week. Another proposal is the elimination of the “tuck rule” of 2002 AFC divisional playoff fame (New England and Oakland). Under the proposal, a quarterback who loses the ball while trying to bring it back to his body will be charged with a fumble. [Kevin Clark / Wall Street Journal]
—Sign of the Apocalypse: Ray Lewis was hired by ESPN to be a studio analyst, such as in traveling to each site for “Monday Night Football.” Not that we didn’t expect this…but it is still very much a sign that the end is nigh.
Ball Bits
–So as we wait to see what kind of season the Yankees have, having won 90+ in 15 of the last 17 seasons (the others being 87 and 89), comparisons are being drawn to the post-1964 era. The Yanks lost the Series that year to the Cardinals, ending a run of 14 World Series in 16 seasons.
But the next three years looked like this:
1965…77-85
1966…70-89
1967…72-90
The New York Post’s Joel Sherman notes that a website predictionmachine.com ran 50,000 simulations of the 2013 season, and in just 40% did the Yankees even make the playoffs….Their average season had the Yankees finishing third behind Toronto and Tampa Bay at 85-77. The Yankees lowest winning percentage in the past 20 seasons is .540, which equates to 87 ½ victories.”
Most oddsmakers have the Yanks in the 86-87 win range. The Las Vegas Hilton has the over/under at 86. The Yanks have fallen to 18-1 to win the World Series. [I’d take that…except for the fact I could never, ever bet on the Yanks.]
You know what I forgot? That the Phillies had the shortest odds on the board, last season, at 11-2 and of course failed to make the playoffs.
VegasInsider.com has the Angels, Tigers, Nationals and Dodgers as the favorites at 10-1 for 2013.
Anyway, as some are also pointing out about the Yankees, why are they scrambling so hard to fill the void left by injuries to the likes of A-Rod, Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira? As in contacting retired players like Chipper Jones and Derrek Lee? As in…what’s the problem with the farm system?
[Back to the lean years, post-1964, it got so bad that on Sept. 22, 1966, the Yanks drew 413 fans, paid, for a makeup game with the White Sox. The next day, a Friday night against Boston at the Stadium, the Yanks drew 1,440….and you can look it up…baseballreference.com.]
–Some of us Mets fans are furious with David Wright, “Captain America,” for not sitting himself down when he felt pain behind his ribs, opting instead to play in the World Baseball Classic, where he was finally forced out due to the pain. It was diagnosed as a moderate strain of the intercostal muscle on his left side and now he could easily miss Opening Day.
It’s not as if he hasn’t had the injury before. We just signed you to a huge contract, David. What the hell are you doing?! Why didn’t you alert the Mets of your discomfort before playing in the Classic?! You owe it to the team, not the USA in a series few American baseball fans give a damn about.
[For the record, Mark Teixeira, who suffered a major injury playing in the Classic, didn’t have a pre-existing condition, best we can tell. But the Mets’ Daniel Murphy has been out all spring training with the same injury Wright suffered.]
Meanwhile, Johan Santana, who will earn $30 million this season, including for a buyout, still hasn’t thrown in a game.
As Johnny Mac, Phil W. and I bemoan, it’s just not fair we have to be both Mets and Jets fans. Not fair at all.
–For Tom Seaver fans, there was a scary piece by Bill Madden of the New York Daily News. It seems Seaver, and his friends, thought something was very wrong. He wasn’t himself. He was acting out of character. Seaver suddenly couldn’t remember names. He thought he was coming down with dementia.
And then the diagnosis….Lyme disease. He was first diagnosed with it in November of 1991, when he was living in Greenwich, Conn., and spending a lot of time tending his garden.
“Stage 3 Lyme disease, which can occur months or years after the initial infection, can result in memory loss, speech problems, sleep disorder and an overall feeling of chemical imbalance – all of which Seaver had been experiencing over the last year.”
Seaver is recovering some, but said he has good days and bad. “I’m taking 24 pills a day now,” he told Madden, “most of them vitamins, plus one penicillin pill to get my chemical balance back. It’s a cycle that kills off all the spirochetes that junk up your system. It’s been a slow process in which I’ll still feel like I have a bad case of the flu for days, but these past couple of weeks they’ve been less and less. I haven’t had a glass of wine or a beer in eight months and I don’t miss it.”
Of course this last bit is rather ironic, seeing as how Seaver has an award-winning vineyard these days…GTS.
NBA Fever…cough cough….It’s Fann-tastic!!!
–The New York Knicks started the season 18-5. Us fans were pumped. Amar’e Stoudemire wasn’t even back yet. We were no doubt going deep in the playoffs.
Now they are toast…with a season-ending injury to Stoudemire and injuries to Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler…i.e., the entire front line. While the other two will come back, the godawful play and disastrous current road trip had more than a few New York scribes going back to another time when the Knicks were slumping and a reporter asked guard Michael Ray Richardson how the team was holding up.
“The ship be sinking,” said Michael Ray. How far can the ship sink? he was then asked. “Sky’s the limit,” was his reply.
[Every year it is required that web editors work this into at least one column, as mandated by the International Web Site Association. Remember….always look to the IWSA for your assurance of web quality.]
Uh oh…update…Knicks lost to the Clippers 93-80, Sunday, as New York falls to 20-21 since their hot start.
—Tim Duncan is truly having a remarkable year at age 36. He is averaging 17.1 points and 9.8 rebounds in just 29.8 minutes, or 20.7 / 11.9 per 36; arguably his best season in five years. In his last two games he has a combined 58 points and 31 rebounds.
Hey, did you know he went to Wake Forest?
There is a good chance my last, dying words will be “Tim Duncan…wheez….went to Wake Forest….gurgle gurgle….zzzzzzzz” Very dramatic, I think you’d agree.
Or maybe in my final words I’ll channel Marv Albert…. “Yess! And it counts!” Or Marv doing Rangers’ hockey: “Kick save and a beauty by Giacomin.” Or Mets broadcaster Bob Murphy: “We’ll be back with the happy recap.”
Send me an email and vote on whose last words I should use. Or suggest your own. But I get to publish the responses.
Golf Balls
—Kevin Streelman won his first PGA Tour title at the Tampa Bay Championship, besting Boo Weekley.
—Natalie Gulbis, one of the very few reasons to follow the LPGA Tour, contracted malaria during the tour’s Asian swing! Noooooo!!!! Don’t die, Natalie!!! Don’t die….[Editor weeping uncontrollably….goes to the grocery store for more Kleenex….]
Update….I was just informed she’ll be back to normal in three weeks. Never mind.
–I was reading Parade Magazine and saw a blurb on a book titled, “An American Caddie in St. Andrews,” by Oliver Horovitz, that looked pretty good. It’s a “poignant, funny memoir” by Horovitz, “a Harvard student who finds his calling on the Scottish links.”
Stuff
—Lindsey Vonn won the World Cup downhill title, her record sixth straight downhill crown, despite being laid up with a knee injury. How? you might be asking yourself. The last race in Switzerland was cancelled due to fog and her lead in the points standings held up. Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal took the men’s season title.
Meanwhile, Tina Maze completed her unbelievable World Cup campaign with a giant slalom victory on Sunday; this after losing to 18-year-old American sensation Mikaela Shiffrin in the slalom, and thus the overall title to Shiffrin as well.
So the Slovenian won 11 World Cup races this season and ended up with 24 top-3 podium finishes, a record, breaking Hermann Maier’s 22 from 2000.
–Olympic champion Kim Yu-na of South Korea (“Queen Yu-na” as she is really known) won the World Figure Skating Championship with what was described as a stupendous performance that had the crowd on their feet before her long program even ended. She won by a huge margin over Italy’s Carolina Kostner with Mao Asada of Japan third.
Americans Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold finished fifth and sixth, which was important because it reclaimed a third spot for the Americans in Sochi, something they had lost with a poor performance at the 2008 Worlds.
I don’t care who won the men’s title. They should be playing hockey. [Just kidding, all you male figure skaters out there!]
–Years ago, I’d say Formula One racer Michael Schumacher was the least known great athlete in this country. Today, that title could well go to Sebastian Vettel, 25, who began his quest on Sunday to become only the third driver to score four consecutive world championships; Schumacher winning five straight from 2000-04, and Argentina’s Juan Manuel Fangio doing so from 1954-57.
Vettel is the youngest F1 winner ever at 21 years and 73 days.
Schumacher has the most championships, 7, and the most wins, 91.
Vettel has the three championships to go along with 26 wins.
But Kimi Raikkonen of Finland won the first contest of the year, the Australian Grand Prix, with Vettel third. Raikkonen thus became the 15th driver in F1 history to record 20 career wins.
[Imagine what a hero Raikkonen is to the Finns.]
—Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke out against the ban on wrestling in the Olympics for 2020.
“The removal of traditional sports that have been central from the beginning and were in the program of the Olympic Games in the times of Ancient Greece…is unjustified,” he said last week.
Gee, I actually agree with Vlad the Great on this one.
–Those of us familiar with the Greensburg, Pa., area mourn the tragic bus crash that left the Seton Hill University women’s lacrosse coach, Kristina Quigley, 30, and her unborn baby, dead…as well as the bus driver. Quigley was from Greensburg (which is the place I really call ‘home,’ since many of my relatives live there…including the surrounding area).
—Jack Curran, who died the other day at the age of 82, was a legend in New York City. For 55 years he coached baseball and basketball at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, winning more than 2,600 games.
It was in 1958 that Curran, living in West Springfield, Mass., and working as a building supplies salesman, saw that St. John’s University, his alma mater, had hired Lou Carnesecca as an assistant basketball coach. Carnesecca had been the baseball and basketball coach at Molloy. So Curran applied for both and was hired.
Curran’s Molloy teams won 22 Catholic school New York City championships, 5 in basketball and 17 in baseball.
Overall, he was 972-437 in basketball and 1,708-523 as a baseball coach.
“He won everything except World War II,” said Carnesecca.
Mike Lupica / New York Daily News
“He coached Kenny Anderson and Kenny Smith in basketball, and Brian Winters and Kevin Joyce.
“So he had a kid like Kenny Anderson end up being one of the top picks in the NBA draft once, that was in basketball, and last summer it was one of his Molloy guys – Mike Baxter – crashing into the wall at Citi Field and preserving Johan Santana’s no-hitter.
“He showed up at Molloy in the late ‘50s and was still talking about coaching baseball this spring a week before he died.”
–As noted in a piece by Amy Chozick of the New York Times, St. Patrick, legend has it, drove all the snakes out of Ireland.
But during the Celtic Tiger boom, for whatever stupid reason, many Irishmen bought snakes as a status symbol…and now during the tough times the snake owners are abandoning the serpents, often just releasing them in the wild or leaving them in abandoned homes.
So as Chozick writes, this has led to some interesting encounters, like a California king snake was found in a vacant store in Dublin; a 15-foot python turned up in a garden in Mullingar.
Actually, Ireland was snake-free long before Patrick’s time, according to scientists. “When the glaciers of the most recent ice age retreated from the British Isles more than 10,000 years ago, Ireland was already separated from the rest of Europe by open sea, an isolated ecosystem with a damp, chilly climate that is hostile to almost all reptiles, other than a common lizard.”
You know, for us Irish golfers this is a bit unsettling, especially for some of us who frequent the thick rough.
–Yet another story, this one from the Times, on the elephant slaughter taking place in Africa. Tens of thousands have been butchered in central Africa between 2002 and 2011. 62% of the forest elephants have vanished. Freakin’ Chinese….and their desire for stupid trinkets.
Note to President Obama. When you get finished talking to Xi Jinping about China’s hacking of Corporate America, tell him to make a statement to his people that ivory in all forms is banned from the country, ditto shark fins.
Back to the Times’ piece, by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels (who both work with the Wildlife Conservation Society), the poaching of the elephants “is also affecting the behavior as these highly intelligent animals respond to the threats they face. They avoid roads not protected from poachers by wildlife guards. Once wide-ranging, the various population groups have become geographically isolated, hemmed in by a shroud of fear….
“Nor do young elephants develop secure social relationships when living in a state of terror, or mourning slain family members – and elephants do mourn. When mothers are killed, babies still dependent on their milk die slowly from starvation, heartbroken and alone. We increasingly see groups of young elephants without knowledgeable females accompanying them. Lost with these matriarchs are traditions and collective memories passed down through many thousands of generations that guide their offspring to that isolated salt lick or patch of fruiting trees that helped to sustain them….
“A universal attribute of humanity is compassion. We protect those in harm’s way. We need to show this compassion to forest elephants, giving them space to roam and protection from danger. Most crucially, people must stop buying ivory.”
–So I’m looking at this picture in National Geographic of a “chacma baboon…one of a population of about 475 near Cape Town," stealing groceries from a terrified woman carrying them to a car, and it warrants action on my part.
The chacma baboon, currently No. 275 on the All-Species List for being such an a-hole, is hereby put on probation for two years! This is the harshest sanction ever levied on a species in recorded history.
[The beaver, by the way, comes off probation April 1st, assuming no rabies-related incidents occur before then.]
–Further examples of why ‘Man’ is mired in the 300s on the ASL…as reported by TIME magazine. “Canadian crooks took thousands of bees from their keeper last year…Four men swiped 16,000 barrels of maple syrup in Quebec…”
—Pope Francis has made an immediate impact on this Catholic, that’s for sure, and the simple, humble Jesuit also appears to favor simple fare….as in baked skinless chicken, salad, fruit and a glass of Two-buck Chuck’s, according to USA TODAY. [Well, not sure on the Trader Joe’s angle.] Maybe I’ll pick him up some stuff at Dollar Tree next trip. They have a great chicken dumpling soup for….$1!!! Plus it’s where I stock up on horseradish sauce….and their chocolate Easter Bunnies are to die for.
Top 3 songs for the week 3/15/1980: #1 “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (Queen…I’ve appreciated these guys more as the years go by…I mean Freddie Mercury was pretty awesome… imagine him at something like the Grammys today…with far more acceptance of his, err, you know…) #2 “Longer” (Dan Fogelberg …song blows….) #3 “Another Brick In The Wall” (Pink Floyd…never understood why some liked this one…I mean it sucks….and I like Pink Floyd…)…and…#4 “Desire” (Andy Gibb) #5 “On The Radio” (Donna Summer….eh….) #6 “Working My Way Back To You” (Spinners….easily their worst…) #7 “Yes, I’m Ready” (Teri DeSario with K.C….she’s cute…plus I love all women whose name ends in ‘o’…) #8 “Him” (Rupert Holmes…I liked this one…just YouTubed it….it having been so long…Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert version…and now I’ll be humming it all freakin’ day and night!) #9 “The Second Time Around” (Shalamar) #10 “Too Hot” (Kool & The Gang…mailed it in…)
College Basketball Quiz Answer: 3,000 points…
Pete Maravich…LSU…3667
Freeman Williams…Portland…3249
Lionel Simmons…La Salle…3217
Alphonso Ford…Mississippi Valley State…3165
Harry “Machine Gun” Kelly…Texas Southern…3066
Keydren Clark…Saint Peter’s (Jersey City)…3058
Hersey Hawkins…Bradley…3008
Next Bar Chat, Thursday.
