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| Coretta Scott King passed away Monday night. Another of the names we learned in history class from the Civil Rights era has is no longer with us. Let us hope and pray that America doesn’t forget the struggles of that generation and allow regressions in the areas so many fought and died for. |
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Everyone’s in love with all the scoring Kobe Bryant has been doing recently. I’ve got nothing against Kobe scoring alot (other than the Lakers are stilll barely above .500 even with Bryant’s recent scoring binge), but Kobe has a natural talent that he excels at. People who are great should play great all the time. That’s expected from them so much that when great players don’t have excellent games we immediately start wondering “what’s wrong?”, like we do with Lamar Odom.Then there’s the slightly above average athlete who isn’t as physically gifted as the Kobe Bryant’s of the world, but will work his tail off. There have been quite a few Lakers that fall into this mold in the past– A.C. Green, Kurt Rambis, Mark Madsen. My latest addition to this would have to be Smush Parker.
From the beginning of the season when Parker was nailing 3 pointers to help the Lakers suck far less than we all expected them to, I saw a new guy that was hustling and knew that this was his chance. Let’s hope Smush keeps hustling and doesn’t get discouraged on his off days. Smush: Keep hustlin’ and make your momma proud!!! |
| “Was it a foul?”
“The referee didn’t call it, so no.” Basically, that’s how Arthur Lee answered the question after he managed to “poke” the ball away from Cutino Mobley in the waning seconds of that Regional Final back in 1998. It seems that the all time assist leader for Stanford took his craft across the pond after his collegiate career to play with a team in Israel, Ironi Nahariya. Unfortunately for this legendary Stanford figure, he seems to be struggling at the moment having been cut about 13 months ago and no longer listed on any rosters in Europe or America. He did manage to take Ironi Nahariya to the finals (not sure if they won or not), but it seems that once his jump shot left him the team found him dispensible. Stanford fans from all over hope Arthur Lee had a successful career and has enjoyed his basketball life, because he gave us some of the most memorable moments in Stanford Basketball history!!! |
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My alma matter had a little basketball renaissance that started with the arrival of Brevin Knight in the fall of 1993. During Brevin’s tenure Stanford started its streak of consecutive NCAA tourney appearances with the ‘94-’95 season (a streak that appears headed to an unceremonious end this season). Before last year, Stanford had made it to the second round every year during that streak as well.
Every once in a while, I remember an ex-Stanford player that represented the Cardinal well, and wonder what he’s up to today. A quick search let’s you know these players are in the NBA today:
For a solid 10 year run, that’s not very many guys. So I always wonder where the guys ended up. As a way to keep track of these guys that kept me glued to FSN and KRON telecasts for so many nights, I’ll see what I can dig up on the guy that I remember and post it on my blog.
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I decided to switch away from the default theme of WordPress. I viewed a few and decided on the “Collage Effect” theme by Keith Levy. After massaging the plug-ins so that they work correctly, I’m finally ready to unleash the new site onto the world!! Hope you guys like it.
-Javier
I was using javi.codewarp.org as my domain for this site. I just realized that the codewarp.org domain is private on FreeDNS and the owner can basically remove my site from the WWW (like he did this past weekend). So I’ve registered the domain http://javidel.org/. http://javi.codewarp.org will continue to work as long as the owner of codewarp.org on FreeDNS decides to be nice and let me have a subdomain. If you’ve got bookmarks (all 2 of you in the WWW), you may consider doing a simple replace of javi.codewarp.org with javidel.org.
Peace Out.
For those of you who didn’t get to see the Heat/Lakers game last night, you missed a classic moment at the end of the 1st half. Big, bad Shaq posterizes the 18 year old Andrew Bynum by dunking in a rebound over the newbie as the rookie falls to the ground. The very next trip down the court the rook takes an entry pass, fakes right goes left, leaves Shaq in his dust as he dunks!!!! Staples Center and the Lakers bench goes wild!!! It was classic. Check out the highlight if you get a chance (you’ll have to click on the “Launch Motion Player Now” button towards the bottom of the screen).
BTW, the Lakers won 100-92 making it the first time the Lakers beat the Heat since the worst trade of all time.
-Peace Out
I can’t believe it’s been 5 years, but Season 5 of the best Cop show ever, The Shield , premieres tonight on F/X. If you’re a cop drama junkie like me (except for Law & Order), you gotta watch this show. Vick Mackie makes Frank Sipowicz of NYPD Blue fame seem like a little school girl.
So Andy was an alcoholic who got mixed up with hookers and got himself shot and beat up the occasional “perp”. Mackey gives crap to his weakling co-worker “Dutch” while hooking up with fellow officers and still has time to rip off the Armenians of their hard earned crime money. Oh yeah, and did I mention he killed a fellow cop to protect his dirty kickback connections? All the while caring greatly for his children and dishing it out hardest to “perps” that harm kids. Mackey, you’re the greyest cop ever put on TV, and that is why we all can’t help but watch.
As a side note, Forest Whitaker joins the cast to try and bring Mackey down this season. Let’s see how Mackey does.
On with the show!!!!
I’ve got a majorly geeked out TiVo Series 1 at home, but this new box might make me “cook the books” so that I can get one a little bit down the line. Looks sweet!!!
Haven’t seen much about the German documentary with the same name as this title’s post. America probably doesn’t want to face the possibility that tiny little Cuba may have bested us.
