Last night was Syracuse versus Georgetown in basketball, which is THE great historical rivalry in the Big East– these are the teams that made the league great in the 80’s, and while the Hoyas had a down stretch in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s, they’re good again, so it’s a huge game. Because of that, […]
Category: Basketball
Sports Reported Like Science
the Wall Street Journal, of all places, has a profile of college basketball analyst Bill Raftery and how he prepares to call games. This would be nothing more than Links Dump material, save for the fact that bits of it appear to have been written for the benefit of visiting aliens who have never seen […]
Presidential Hoops Challenge
Barack Obama will be visiting Schenectady next Tuesday, and local notables are suggesting things he might do. Particularly notable was this: Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, R-Glenville, a basketball enthusiast like Obama, suggested that some hoop should be organized for the occasion. “I’d like to challenge him to a two-on-two game .â.â. at the new YMCA in […]
Fredette-apalooza
SteelyKid is off spending the weekend with her grandparents, so Kate and I went out to a nice restaurant last night (we love SteelyKid dearly, but miss eating in restaurants without a kids menu). I was kicking myself for forgetting to set the DVR to record a basketball game, though. Not the Duke or Kentucky […]
The Cromartie Conundrum, the Foreman Solution, and the Chamberlain Estimate
New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie is getting mocked for a clip where he takes some time to name all his children (the clip isn’t as bad as the description makes it sound– he’s slow, but he doesn’t struggle all that badly). Cromartie claims that HBO manipulated the footage to make him look bad. Of […]
Bonus Toddler Blogging: Balloon Basketball
SteelyKid has clearly inherited her father’s fondness for basketball. Unfortunately, she doesn’t quite understand how to play, yet. She does know that involves throwing a ball up in the air and jumping, though: She’ll get the rest of it eventually.
Thursday Baby Blogging 042210
Most weeks, I try to find some natural-looking way to get SteelyKid and Appa in the picture together. Sometimes, though, there’s just no way to get it done, and we have to resort to Kate holding Appa near her: She’s hugging her jacket because it got kind of cold this afternoon, but she’s in a […]
Maryland-Duke
It’s been an absurdly good hoops week at Chateau Steelypips– Syracuse won a big one to take over the (admittedly meaningless) #1 spot in the polls, and now Maryland beat Duke in a tough game to move into a tie for the top spot in the (admittedly down) ACC. If both Duke (home to UNC) […]
Syracuse-Villanova
They pushed the curtain back a few feet at the Carrier Dome, opening up a few more seats so they could set a new record for largest on-campus crowd to see a college basketball game for Syracuse playing Villanova for a share of the Big East regular season title. This is the sort of atmosphere […]
Syracuse vs. Notre Dame
I watched most of Syracuse’s win over Notre Dame last night. Two basketball games in the same week! Luxury! The thing that really jumps out at me about this team as opposed to last year’s is that they’re calm. Last year Eric Devendorf in particular, and to a lesser extent Johnny Flynn, tended to panic […]