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T-Minus-83 Days until “The Mid Valley Classic”
Good Morning!
Programming Note: Same date, July 10th. Same teams, but the SGV Shootout has been moved from Arroyo to Gladstone High School. Construction on the Arroyo campus has made this necessary.
Lost in all the football talk, is the high school basketball season going full bore through its summer programs.
Big deal Kendrick Perkins is hurt. Too bad! Did anyone care about Andrew Bynum being hurt in 2008? Did anyone concern themselves with Bynum being at less than full strength during this series?
Baby I’m back! I love the NBA and cannot wait for the finals tonight.
Thank you FIFA…
Last Note on Being Hurt: Magic Johnson and Byron Scott both tear hamstrings when the Lakers are going for a three-peat against Detroit in 1989. Did anyone question the Pistons title?
Late during the 1983 season James Worthy breaks a leg, Bob McAdoo injures a calf muscle, and Norm Nixon injures his shoulder in game one of the finals against Philadelphia. Did anyone question the 76ers title?
He seems like a nice guy, but ABC/ESPN’s Mike Breen does a great job reminding me how much I miss Chick Hearn.
Never had a grandfather, but the other night I was thinking Chick Hearn and Vin Scully are like grandfathers to us all. Classy old guys, with great stories, you always want to be around.
Speaking of which, most sports talk guys on the radio are pretty vanilla…actually pretty ignorant… (Although I’ve come to really appreciate Colin Cowherd as being by far the best one out there.)
So I’m listening to some fellas on 710 yesterday, and they all sound alike, when one of them says game seven with the Celtics is the most important game in the history of the Lakers franchise. I figured for sure there would be dissent, but none came.
With an organization that has had as much success as the Lakers since moving to Los Angeles how can you throw, in good conscience, such a statement out there? Not everyone has to bow down at the altar of Jerry West or Magic Johnson, I’m cool with that, but goodness gracious do your homework.
I still have an issue with Spero Dedes ridiculous statement about the Utah Jazz being a successful franchise right from the beginning. When you’re a pro you don’t have to flaunt it, but you should know this stuff.
Words from The Piper
About Pac 10 expansion; “Texas is afraid to come play some real talent!”
About USC’s penalties; “The sanctions handed down are brutal, I feel sorry for the coaches and the student-athletes on the USC campus. There has to be a better way to discipline a university, not the kids who are there 6-7 years later.”
About his Rosemead squad; “We will really see how our team looks in late August, for now just running and lifting weights. We are confident that we can be a better group this year.”
I saw that Spain lost to Switzerland, and I began to wonder what language the Swiss speak when on the field.
Love the invite of Utah into the Pac 10…great, but the league should go further and lock up the western end of the country by adding Texas Christian, BYU, Boise State, and Fresno State. Call it the Pac West and further minimize Texas and Oklahoma for staying in the Big 12.
Who are the Longhorns and the Sooners going to play in conference?
Three of the four schools I mentioned are perennial top ten teams, add USC, Oregon, as well as resurgent programs at Stanford and Washington and you have one of the best football conferences in the nation.
Don’t come to me about non-revenue sports and fits…football drives the boat chief.
Glad to see the Redskins are getting tough on Albert Haynesworth.
Last Add Most Important Game in Lakers History: Game six, 1985, in Boston; the Lakers win and beat the Celtics in the finals for the very first time. The game was shown on CBS at 10:A.M. our time. Bad News Barker brings a 13-inch black and white television to church and sets it up in an upstairs classroom…you never saw a guy get up and go to the bathroom as often as Barker did during the Pastor’s sermon. Every ten minutes a note would reach me with the score.
At the final amen myself and Arroyo alum Craig Harris (1986) sprint out of the sanctuary and get upstairs just in time to see Kareem connect on the clinching sky hook.
Last Add on Immaturity: People have asked, why didn’t we just skip church and watch the game at home? In our youth we lived in fear that God would curse our teams if we stayed home from church to watch them play.
My brother still tries to blame me for the Rams Super Bowl XIV to the Steelers because I didn’t go to church that morning. Bad News Barker and Peterson blamed me when I showed up for the Rams-Bears NFC Championship during the 1985 season after blowing out church in the morning. Of course we all were in church the day the Rams lost the NFC title to the 49ers.
These days I lean more towards the Lord have a great sense of humor than having a specific team he roots for… So I’ve grown up… and I also have a DVR.
Stay thirsty my friends…
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