Three Questions for a Sunday Morning Concerning Yesterday's College Basketball Orgy
1) Do players today wear the number 23 in honor of LeBron or MJ?
I am not sure, sitting here in The 'Pent; location, a cold and snowy building in Portland, Maine. Haven't spoken to enough kids to know. Of course, LeBron wears his number in deference to the second greatest basketball player ever (if you think MJ is better than Bill Russell, you don't know your history). But young guys all over seem to be wearing #23 in increasing numbers, as opposed to when MJ was playing, when the number was taboo due to aura of greatness required by the wearer.
------------
2) Why don't more balding basketball players in college shave their heads?
After all, going bald IS the reason that MJ shaved his a few years into his NBA career: not for style but to hide his increasingly empty dome. The best (or worst) case of this is Duke's Gerald Henderson, an electrifying junior swingman for the once beaten Blue Devils. The young man can certainly play and is, in my opinion, headed for the NBA lottery if he can develop some more consistency in his jumper. But the dude is going bald! Shave it off, Gerald! You are a beautiful young black male who is losing his hair. No shame in that. Be like Mike, young fella!
------------
3) If Wake Forest wins the NCAA title, would they, with their forty four hundred current undergraduate students, be the smallest school ever to win the crown?
No. Holy Cross, current enrollment of about 2,800 undergraduates, won the title behind Bob Cousy in 1947.
Other small schools to win the title include Villanova in 1985, with 6,300 current undergrads, and LaSalle in 1954, with 4,700 current undergrads. No figures were available on their enrollment at time of winning the title.
-------------
Enjoy the playoff games today, sports fans...
I am not sure, sitting here in The 'Pent; location, a cold and snowy building in Portland, Maine. Haven't spoken to enough kids to know. Of course, LeBron wears his number in deference to the second greatest basketball player ever (if you think MJ is better than Bill Russell, you don't know your history). But young guys all over seem to be wearing #23 in increasing numbers, as opposed to when MJ was playing, when the number was taboo due to aura of greatness required by the wearer.
------------
2) Why don't more balding basketball players in college shave their heads?
After all, going bald IS the reason that MJ shaved his a few years into his NBA career: not for style but to hide his increasingly empty dome. The best (or worst) case of this is Duke's Gerald Henderson, an electrifying junior swingman for the once beaten Blue Devils. The young man can certainly play and is, in my opinion, headed for the NBA lottery if he can develop some more consistency in his jumper. But the dude is going bald! Shave it off, Gerald! You are a beautiful young black male who is losing his hair. No shame in that. Be like Mike, young fella!
------------
3) If Wake Forest wins the NCAA title, would they, with their forty four hundred current undergraduate students, be the smallest school ever to win the crown?
No. Holy Cross, current enrollment of about 2,800 undergraduates, won the title behind Bob Cousy in 1947.
Other small schools to win the title include Villanova in 1985, with 6,300 current undergrads, and LaSalle in 1954, with 4,700 current undergrads. No figures were available on their enrollment at time of winning the title.
-------------
Enjoy the playoff games today, sports fans...
posted by joe sweeney at 7:47 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home