More Weekend Thoughts
by MattGSeattle on Feb 9, 2009 12:16 PM EST
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-ESPN's GameDay crew rolled into Spokane this weekend for the highly anticipated Memphis - Gonzaga match-up on Saturday night. Gonzaga responded to the challenge by failing to field of team worthy of a high school game and in the process got completely thrashed in their own hometown.
I'm not sure how anybody could have watched that game last night and not come to the conclusion that the Zags will be lucky to get out of the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. Very lucky.
Besides their atrocious on-ball defense, Gonzaga proved once again that this might be their worst rebounding team in ten years. This team needs a Corey Violette-type player very, very badly, as they continue to get out worked on both the offensive and defensive glass.
-Liverpool continued to make a living out of snatching victories from the jaws of defeat after a header by Fernando Torres in injury time sent the Reds to a 3-2 victory at Portsmouth yesterday. Liverpool had trailed 2-1 with less than ten minutes remaining in the match before Dirk Kuyt and Torres rallied the Reds to grab those all important three points on the road.
The last two weekends, Fernando Torres has scored two game winners that have essentially saved Liverpool's EPL season.
-In a story that has a spot Countdown with Keith Olbermann's "Oddball" segment written all over it, a student group a North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, organized a Krispy Creme charity run to benefit a local children's hospital. The event consisted of 5,000 iron-stomached individuals running two miles, stopping to eat a dozed Krispy Creme doughnuts, and then running another two miles.
No word on how many of doughnuts re-appeared at the end of the run.
-Jeff Passan from Yahoo.com, pens a nice take on the A-Rod situation by noting that by all accounts, Rodriguez was a guy that didn't need to juice. He was a natural born player before he was 18, yet here he is, embroiled in the same mess as everyone else.
Kudos to Passan for an excellent take.
-It snowed in Seattle last night. Again. It wasn't a large accumulation and it will be gone soon enough, but that doesn't make it right.
I'm not sure how anybody could have watched that game last night and not come to the conclusion that the Zags will be lucky to get out of the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. Very lucky.
Besides their atrocious on-ball defense, Gonzaga proved once again that this might be their worst rebounding team in ten years. This team needs a Corey Violette-type player very, very badly, as they continue to get out worked on both the offensive and defensive glass.
-Liverpool continued to make a living out of snatching victories from the jaws of defeat after a header by Fernando Torres in injury time sent the Reds to a 3-2 victory at Portsmouth yesterday. Liverpool had trailed 2-1 with less than ten minutes remaining in the match before Dirk Kuyt and Torres rallied the Reds to grab those all important three points on the road.
The last two weekends, Fernando Torres has scored two game winners that have essentially saved Liverpool's EPL season.
-In a story that has a spot Countdown with Keith Olbermann's "Oddball" segment written all over it, a student group a North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, organized a Krispy Creme charity run to benefit a local children's hospital. The event consisted of 5,000 iron-stomached individuals running two miles, stopping to eat a dozed Krispy Creme doughnuts, and then running another two miles.
No word on how many of doughnuts re-appeared at the end of the run.
-Jeff Passan from Yahoo.com, pens a nice take on the A-Rod situation by noting that by all accounts, Rodriguez was a guy that didn't need to juice. He was a natural born player before he was 18, yet here he is, embroiled in the same mess as everyone else.
Kudos to Passan for an excellent take.
-It snowed in Seattle last night. Again. It wasn't a large accumulation and it will be gone soon enough, but that doesn't make it right.
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