Michael Hurlbut
My cousin called me on Friday afternoon to tell me to turn on the TV to watch the news at 5. Apparently he and his UCLA classmates had been camping out for the last two days in hopes of getting tickets to the much anticipated UCLA-Kansas basketball game.
After I hung up the phone, I wondered to myself, “Why don’t we do that?” Then I was quickly reminded of two things. First, we already get in free to games so we don’t have to pay for our tickets like UCLA. Second, RLO would write us up if guys and girls were sleeping even remotely close to each other, let alone in sleeping bags.
NFL playoffs are back and that always brings a wave of bandwagon jumps through my circle of friends. My roommate, a Southern California native, roots for whomever my San Francisco 49ers are playing against. Drives me nuts, but I don’t blame him. I’d be bitter too if all the good Los Angeles sports teams took off. I can’t imagine what would happen if the Lakers left. A city of Clippers fans is a little too strange, even for Los Angeles.
The comedy “Orange County” hit screens over the weekend. I didn’t get a chance to see it yet, but I’m down for any movie that gets a chance to dump on Stanford. When is someone gonna bag LMU?
The women’s basketball team had the pleasure of playing against two of the most fantastically named twins in the country last Friday night, Jermisha and Jerkisha Dosty from St. Mary’s. Yes, that’s how it’s spelled and yes they wear reciprocal numbers, 45 and 54. They’ve inexplicably garnered the nicknames of The Jerm and The Jerk over the course of their playing days in the WCC. And I thought Hurlbut was bad.
Best of luck to Shaquille O’Neal in the upcoming days. I don’t think Brad Miller knew how close he came to actually losing the back of his head if Shaq had connected with that punch. And yet, Miller is still talking trash.
James Gandolfini, aka Tony Soprano, has been spotted on billboards in Florida recently, encouraging prospective players to take a look at the Rutgers University football program. Apparently, Gandolfini is an alumnus of Rutgers. I can sympathize with the gesture, but at the same time, I’ll weigh the options carefully. Florida or New Jersey? Good luck to the Red Knights in their next season because I don’t think this marketing scheme is going to save the squad.
By the way, we should probably tell Punxsutawney Phil to stay in for a little while longer until all this sun goes away. Wouldn’t want anymore of this winter we’re having … too cold. Yeah. Right.
Finally, Bobby Knight, formerly of Indiana University and now of Texas Tech, once said, “If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.” And we all wonder why Bobby Knight hasn’t been asked to take over the Knicks …
January 24, 2002
