Every Day Should Be Dre Day

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 11, 2008 2:07 PM CST in News Comment 14 comments

Here's a few links worth reading, courtesy of the greatest Hawkeye since Ronnie Lester's knee buckled in the 1980 Final Four...

Would any jury convict him for strangling Clem Haskins? I say no.

First off, a very special Where Are They Now from the Big Ten Chronicle, featuring Mr. Woolridge himself. There's nothing earth-shattering or anything that we didn't already know (went to Turkey, kicked some ass), but it still mystifies us that he never went on to star in the NBA. The 96-97 Hawkeyes were woefully undertalented, having lost Chris Kingsbury, Jess Settles, Russ Millard, and Kenyon Murray from the previous season. Still, Woolridge single-handedly carried the team to the second round of the NCAA, where Iowa damned near beat eventual runner-up Kentucky. He was simply heroic all season long, and Iowa's had nobody with half the leadership since.

Second, Orson's June Junes interview at SMU at EDSBS is mindblowing on so many different levels. Here's an excerpt that in no way reveals any of the plot:

Ed: I played at SMU, Jones. I know what the I-formation is. I have a loaded gun in my hands, and it goes off when I’m bored. And I’m getting perilously closed to uninterested, a little neighborhood just three blocks over from bored-town.
June: I know. You were the one who murdered Jerry Glanville.
Ed: Killed, Jones, killed. Murder is wrong. Killin’ is justified.

LTP is starting a series of profiles on the Purple Mafia, the Northwestern alumni in sports media. Today's article is on Darren Rovell, formerly of ESPN and currently of CNBC and SportsBiz. Cool stuff, even for a school that's just Northwestern.

Cool stuff from The Big Lead: Why is ESPN ignoring that Tarnished Heisman book about Reggie Bush? Sure, it's old news, but it's all over the other sites and networks. Might it have something to do with Reggie Bush's attorney being a legal consultant for ESPN? Hmmmmmmmmm?

And last, a couple YouTubes of BHGP's favorite spectator sport: Paternity tests on Maury!

This is outstanding just for the lone white guy.

Try not to spend an hour at work youtubing Maury. Try. You will fail miserably.

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Correct Me If I'm Wrong

but wasn't Woolridge the last player to lead the Big Ten in PPG and APG in the same season? He was a man amongst boys.

Think he has any eligibility left? If you go pro, but you are only paid in Turkish lira, are you really going pro after all? If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, could it still be better on offense than Kurt Looby? Why am I still typing?

by Hawkeye State on Jan 11, 2008 2:48 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

As long as we're correcting...

"Him" should be "he."

by Bucketochicken on Jan 11, 2008 4:22 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

and

He was fucking robbed for Big 10 POY by Bobby Jackson. Fucking robbed.
Also, he had the ugliest knuckleball lookin shot ever. Loved that guy.

by jebushchrist on Jan 11, 2008 5:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Hence the Clem line

Everybody was fucking robbed. Dr. Tom got robbed by not getting the conference championship, which undoubtedly led to his dismissal, and you saw what happened afterwards.

Now I'm getting pissed off just thinking about it.

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 11, 2008 5:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

also

Dude, the lone white guy is Uncle Frank.
You did know that, right?

by jebushchrist on Jan 11, 2008 5:23 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

To answer your question

Who the fuck is Uncle Frank?

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 11, 2008 5:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Uncle Frank is

the world's most famous security guard. He's on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! He's ... forget it... he's Jimmy Kimmel's uncle.

by jebushchrist on Jan 11, 2008 7:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I love the paternity tests,

but have you watched the girl who is afraid of pickles? This is why television was made.

by Hawkeye State on Jan 11, 2008 6:19 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

yeah, but

those pickles were pretty creepy.

by jebushchrist on Jan 11, 2008 7:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Andre!

I fucking loved Andre Woolridge. He was my first favorite basketball player, and still my favorite Hawkeye ever (basically, he was the basketball version of Timmy Dwight). Watching him almost beat Kentucky by himself is still one of the most impressive things I've ever seen and one of my favorite basketball memories, even if we did lose. I can't believe he never made it in the NBA.

by Adam on Jan 11, 2008 7:35 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Hawks of the mid-90s

How a team with a starting lineup of 'Dre, Kingsbury, Murray, Settles and Millard went 11-7 in the Big Ten and needed an all-time miracle of a comeback just to win a first round tourney game, I'll never know.

I get pissed as hell thinking of the near misses and misfortunes that defined the Tom Davis era. I get more pissed thinking about how it led to his ouster and what happened next.

What I get the most pissed about is how I practically lived and died with Hawkeye basketball in those days, and now on a busy weeknight I MIGHT remember they're playing.

God I want to be nervous the day of a basketball game again the way I am the day of a football game. Get it done Todd. I think you can.

by DonnyDonovan on Jan 11, 2008 8:12 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

The first half of your comment is sacrelige

The second half is gospel.

by Hawkeye State on Jan 12, 2008 1:53 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That season was really, really weird

Kingsbury, Murray, and Settles all spent a lot of time outside the starting lineup. Kingsbury was fucking mental, Murray was better coming off the bench (what fun that was), and Settles was, at that point, 44 years old. For the amount of seniors on the team, the stability they usually brought seemed to be, uh, lacking.

All that aside, I've got to say, it was really fun to watch Russ Millard ruin Alexander Koul's NBA career in that first round game.

by Oops Pow Surprise on Jan 12, 2008 2:15 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

'96-'97

I was a second-year law student at the U of I that season and had season tickets. It took me twenty minutes to walk to Carver, but I gladly did it. Now, like Donny, I barely remember there's a game. Dammit, CHA was still sold out then most of the time, and still pretty loud. Fucking [name redacted]. Dr. Tom was never really the same after Chris Street's accident. You could tell his heart wasn't really in it any more.

by telepathetic on Jan 12, 2008 10:03 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs