LADIES' NIGHT ... OR LADIES NIGHT
Sunday Driving Through My Mind...
-- ESPN just opened its Women's Final Four coverage with a "Ladies Night" montage. Nice. My favorite attempt at this was done by Rob Liano, a producer mostly at CBS Sports, who did this for our "Olympic Ice" coverage at the Torino Olympics. Hey, setting a women's sporting even to "Ladies Night" isn't like inventing the Swiffer, so I'm sure Rob doesn't feel as if he's been plagiarized. Still, I wonder if that's where ESPN got the idea.
-- Trey Wingo introduced co-hosts Kara Lawson and Stacey Dales-not-Schuman by showing footage of the two of them playing in the Women's Final Four. Dales played with Oklahoma in 2002 and Lawson with Tennessee in 2003. What Wingo failed to mention is that both Lawson's and Dales' teams lost in the championship game to UConn.
Maybe he should have. I think the Huskies are again going to hoist the ladder this week in Tampa.
-- Tonight is a HUUUGE night for Candace Parker's legacy. There's little dispute that she is the most gifted college player since Diana Taurasi, but how will she shoulder the potential of reinjuring her dislocated shoulder. I've never suffered that injury, but my good buddy Matt Boler has and here's what I know:
1) Once you do it once, you're more susceptible to it reoccurring.
2) It hurts like a muffalatta. Or something that sounds like that.
Playing with pain is one thing. Playing with the potential to experience excruciating pain on the next play is almost worse. In fact, I would argue that it is worse. How will Parker respond? How could you blame her for playing tentative? It would be nice if her teammates shouldered the burden tonight, players such as Alexis Hornbuckle and Horatio Hornblower. We'll just have to wait and see.
-- Fascinating piece on ABC News this evening about a dude who travels around the country correcting misspellings ( I've misspelled "misspell" more than once in print) that he sees on marquees or in stores or just about anywhere. He's very polite about it and he brings along his own White-Out, asking the owner of the store that sells "stationary" or "carmel corn" if he might fix it.
I'm reminded of that because I just noticed that an ESPN graphic spelled a former UConn All-American, and one of my favorite people in sports, as "Svetta Abrosimova". But, this brings us back to the title of this blog entry. Should it be "Ladies Night", which is the title of the song? Or should it be "Ladies' Night", because isn't it their night? You tell me.
And allow me to cut G.A. off at the pass--Should it be "Cool and the Gang" as opposed to "Kool and the Gang"? This is a good question, but people have artistic license on their names. Which is why ESPN must remember that Tennessee's All-American is Candace Parker and Stanford's is Candice Wiggins.
-- Most bizarre story I've seen the past few days and frankly, I don't know why you cannot find higher on our site.
-- My favorite Final Four-related quote from today's "San Antonio Express-News" comes from UCLA fan Courtney Smith, 29, who apparently is no longer dating Billy. "I'm devastated. I'm sad," she said, the tears streaking her blue face paint. "And the booze isn't helping."
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you guys need to do a stroy about the Laurinburg Institute, where several of the UOM Tigers come from. Established in 1904, Lauringburg is the oldest black prep school in America. Four of the Tigers players come from there, they have graduated more than 30 players to NCAA Div. 1 teams, they're national champs in their division and they're getting all this done without a gym, please help us gain awareness of this great progam ...
I know this has nothing to do with your latest blog entry; however, I didn't know how else to contact you. The story that you did on the Tigers this morning was absolutely wonderful...
I just wanted to thank you - I know that for some, Joey Dorsey seems unlikely to be a "sweetheart," but for me and for most of the people in the city of Memphis he is just that - but so much more! He, as you said, is a story of triumph, victory, and more than that, survival.
I will cheer for my Tigers tonight along with everyone else in this city which has always been divided by black and white.
Tonight, we are blue. Tiger Blue. We are one.
I appreciate your story and just wanted you to know that I thought you did a wonderful service to my team and my town. Thanks for that!
The only things keeping me from being that typo guy are (a) wife and two kids, who would only put up with such a road trip for about 25 minutes and (b) the logistical costs of such a mission. Maybe Wite-Out, ironically, would sponsor me.
On the Cool vs. Kool thing, I simply abhor words that are spelled incorrectly in business names, like Klubhouse, Kones, etc., even if they're only that way to dodge trademark infringement because another company has dibs on the correct spelling. There's a restaurant in town called "Champps" -- so as not to be confused with the one-P athletic-shoe purveyor. It'd be like opening a "Seers" and throwing in one Tarot guy in with lawnmowers and dishwashers and everything else in the catalog.
Hey, good call on UConn. At least you didn't devote a year of your life to them this time around ...
Ogden Nash would advise Courtney: "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
those suckas at espn stole my idea!! classic.