This time, it looked like it was over. Here are a few observations from Thursday night’s second-round playoff game between the Southern Lee Cavaliers and the Northeast Guilford Rams.
The Southern Lee Cavaliers never panicked.
Even as Seth Hawkins was raining 3-pointers like they were layups, the Cavaliers’ stayed within themselves. The game appeared lost at least [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 29, 2008
More Notes From the Hardwood
February 27, 2008
Notes From The Hardwood
A few quick hits about Southern Lee’s 71-67 first-round playoff win over Western Guilford on Tuesday night.
If you’ve followed a lot of basketball, you’ve probably often heard the repeated adage that the game is all about matchups.
Well, Tuesday night’s game was a bad matchup for the Southern Lee Cavaliers.
Western Guilford was barely a .500 team [...]
February 23, 2008
A few Southern Lee notes
A few quick hits about Southern Lee’s win over Union Pines on Friday night to capture their second straight Cape Fear Valley Conference Tournament title.
I’m going to touch on this some more in Sunday’s column, but reserves Raymond Brown and Donte Alston were tremendous in picking up the Cavaliers’ offense in the tournament final.
With bigs [...]
February 17, 2008
Go to practice, and enjoy it
The impetus for Sunday’s Designated Hitter column in The Sanford Herald was a comment made by Southern Lee basketball coach Chris Cherry, who said following his team’s 101-60 destruction of Overhills on Friday night that he realizes that he keeps telling me the same thing after every game, but that he can’t get away from [...]
February 14, 2008
Clemens and McNamee — Men of Substance
A few more thoughts from the congressional hearing with Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee.
Who won?
Nobody.
Surely Clemens, with an ego so big that he had the gall to interrupt Rep. Henry Waxman’s closing statement, figured he’d come out of this thing on Wednesday and essentially be exonerated. And there were times on Wednesday when he performed [...]
February 10, 2008
More Bud Shootout Ramblings
Here are a few more thoughts I had while watching the Bud Shootout that I didn’t have room to fit into Sunday’s Designated Hitter column.
Double-file restarts
I loved this, and it may have decided the race. Since the Shootout was an exhibition, NASCAR decided that all restarts would be double-file, which on the surface isn’t that [...]
February 7, 2008
Duke-Carolina — The Running Diary
This night messes with me like few others.
Carolina-Duke. Duke-Carolina. All day, all last night, it’s all the true fans of either school think about leading up to the tip.
This is the perfect confluence of nervous energy, anger, joy, hope and relief — none necessarily in that order.
This is it. It’s coming. And here are my [...]
February 4, 2008
An Idiot and the Super Bowl II
41-17.
That’s what I thought would happen. I saw the Pats winning 41-17. That was my final prediction.
At least I got the Giants’ number right.
What a beautiful game by the New York Giants. Just beautiful. Eli Manning made the play of the year in the last real game of the year (the Pro Bowl doesn’t count), shaking [...]
February 3, 2008
An idiot and the Super Bowl
Anybody who has read my column over the last few years knows at least two things:
1). I an a huge Chicago Cubs fan.
2). I am a colossal idiot.
My hope is that these two things are mutuallyexclusive and that my idiotdom is not a direct result of mindlessly falling in love with all things Harry Caray [...]
