Ten Oddball Topics

Call them "off-topics" but here are a few things that I found a bit odd.......

1- Tiger Wood's marital issues and indiscretions have sure gotten a lot of publicity. But other famous people with marital difficulties and indiscretions seem to have gotten a pass, and the press barely notices. Wonder why??
Shaquille O'Neal is reportedly running around on his wife, and she's divorcing him, but I really haven't seen that reported outside of a few gossip columns.
http://www.nowpublic.com/sports/shaq-divorce-caused-gilbert-arenas-fiance-laura-govan-2513447.html

Same for another relative NBA good-guy, D-Wade...why such a difference in the way the press is portraying this?/
http://nba.fanhouse.com/2009/01/18/dwyane-wades-divorce-takes-ugly-turn/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/business/media/17adco.html


2- I found something interesting this morning.. I asked a few people how to spell D-Wade's first name...
nobody got it right. Considering the guy's been a household name for the better part of a decade, you'd think people would know the proper way top spell his name!

Here's the right way to spell it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwyane_Wade
http://www.dwyanewade3.com/

a whole lot of places spell it wrong, including NBA people...
http://www.nba.com/knicks/news/nykmiarecap090301.html


3- Kobe would NOT be proud...
Students at Lower Merion HS in Philly degenerate into flinging racial & ethnic taunts at opponents.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/18/1009803/phillie-students-dunked-after-holocaust-taunts

Kobe Bryant is the most famous alum of Lower Merion...
http://www.kobebryantshoes.com/images/kobe_highschool_11.jpg


4- Speaking of bad fan behavior, here's a school (a middle school) where a brawl resulted in cancellation of all the teams' (7th & 8th grade, boys & girls!) entire season! At last, some solid discipline!
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20091217/NEWS01/912180368/Melee+cancels+basketball+season


5- I saw some clips from the new movie "Avatar". The press seems to promise this is the best computer generated graphics anyone has ever seen, and it won't look like a cartoon, but will instead look like real people acting in the movie.
I don't know what everyone else will think, but baloney....it was so obviously CGI that it is just distracting to me. When people talk and interact, there' more facial movement and expression...the CGI still looks like cartoonish graphics.


6- Who among all current and even recent players in the Missouri Valley, leads the entire MVC in career shots attempted?
Well...the winner is well ahead of all the rest......
OE has 1241 shots attempted to date in the MVC.
Next closest is Drake's Josh Young with 1058.
Andrew Warren, in his junior year, still hasn't hit 500, and Sam Maniscalco is just a little over 600.
P'Allen Stinnett, another prolific shooter, also in his junior year, has 699, and Tony Freeman, a gunner who came over from Iowa is at 604.
Even Kyle Korver (1184), Jeremy Crouch (1020), and PJ Couisnard (970) in their prolific FULL 4 year careers in the Valley still never launched close to the number of shot attempts OE has even before most of his senior season has been played.
And nobody in the past 6-8 years, including Jamaal Tatum, Nate Funk, etc....shot as many times as OE will end up with at the completion of his career.


7- Yet another Mizzou player suspended for legal issues...
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2009/12/17/missouri-basketball-player-jt-tiller-suspended-one-game-after-arrest-unpaid-speeding-ticket/


8- Almost as much legal trouble as they have at Tennessee...
With Lane Kiffin, his hostesses, his lawbreakers, and then add in all the crooks, druggies, and thugs that Bruce Pearl has, they really need their own jail built on campus.
http://www.waaytv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11696318


9- Proof that Bobby Knight doesn't always graduate his players...
http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/nH8egsr2009/700.pdf

and proof that one Valley school is even worse!!!
http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/nH8egsr2009/299.pdf


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You might have to drive a bit to get it...but it's worth it!
http://www.whiteysicecream.com/locations.asp
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