More props to Sammy, some D-League results, Nick Evans followup, KU scandal, Kevin Coble saga, and lots more tidbits including a really bizarre one...

Sammy Maniscalco got a nice writeup by the Massachusetts press as "Player to watch"...
http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/11/hall_of_fame_tip-off_players_t_5.html



Did you see this??
Big Ten's Northwestern went all the way down to Edinburg, Texas to play on the road at Texas-Pan American, and their massive home crowd of 1600...
..only a few steps from Rio Bravo, Mexico
A couple ex-Bradley recruits started...
Drew Crawford logged 37 minutes, 7-17, 22 pts, 8 reb
JerShon Cobb logged just 12 minutes 4 pts, 2 reb
Both John Shurna (20 pts) and Michael Thompson (17 pts, 4 asst) played the entire game, 40 minutes..
as Northwestern struggled mightily to fend off UTPA and come away with a 77-71 win..
This was close all the way with only a 4-6 point lead separating the teams..



A couple overrated players??
Ex-BU recruit -- who went to UConn then left there when he got no playing time...
Darius Smith, after 5 games at junior college (College of Southern Idaho) is averaging just 5 ppg, 50% on FT's, but 4 assists per game


So how about the ex-Saluki Nick Evans -- how's he doing??
Remember -- Nick Evans is the big, 6-11 kid who was booted at SIU -- he's now at University of Southern Indiana but did not play when they went to Illiknois for the exhibition game there.

Nick Evans is now playing and he's kinda confirming he really isn't a D-I player -- so we were not wrong about that.....
He's logged two games thus far, and isn't exactly impressing anyone..
He's averaging 3 ppg, 4 rpg, but is pretty much a foul-a-minute or a turnover-a-minute!!
He's averaged 11 minutes per game and 3.5 fouls per contest (gets in foul trouble pretty quickly), and has 5 turnovers as well....



Results from the D-League (just can't find this info anywhere!!):

Rio Grande 123 - Texas 115
For Rio Grande: Jordan Eglseder did not play -- no reason given, same for Antoine Tisby.
For Texas: Justin Dentmon 21 pts/1 asst/4 TO, Booker Woodfox 14 min, 2-5, 8 pts, no asst.
**Texas also is the first men's pro team with a woman head coach - Nancy Lieberman

Four more games tonight and 6 more games Saturday!
One game Saturday, New Mexico at Idaho (8PM Central) will feature BU's Chris Roberts on the Idaho Stampede.


Earlier this week:
Maine 102 - Springfield 88
For Maine: Jameson Curry 21

Erie 90 - Ft. Wayne 84
For Erie: Rod Wilmont 20

Rio Grande 118 - Veracruz 116
Rio Grande: Jordan Eglseder 13 min, 2-4, 4 pts, 2 rebs, Antoine Tisby 0-3, scoreless

Other Valley players and familiar names:
Evansville's Shy Ely plays for the Iowa Energy
UIC's Othyus Jeffers & Scott VanDerMeer play for the Iowa Energy
Illini Jamar Smith plays for the Maine Red Claws
ISU's Champ Oguchi plays for the Maine Red Claws
DePaul's Dar Tucker plays for the Texas Legends



Bet you didn't hear much on this one..
but lots happening in the Kansas ticket scandal and the press obviously being pretty kind to them and leaving just about all of it off the front pages..
http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/ticket-scandal-damages-kus-reputation/
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/11/18/2450838_five-indicted-as-kus-ticket-scandal.html?storylink=omni_popular
http://www2.kusports.com/news/2010/nov/18/federal-charges-filed-against-five-former-kansas-a/

When this stuff goes to trial -- there's rumors that certain Kansas head coaches and assistant coaches will be implicated in the mess that essentially stole multiple millions of dollars of tickets and sold them on the black market for cash profits..

The feds and IRS think they'll nail this one easy..
the single best line of defense those crooks have come up with yet is..
"hey wait a minute -- those tickets weren't worth that much!!"



Drama at Michigan State soph Derrick nix maybe leaving team?
http://noise.typepad.com/hey_joe/2010/11/nix-not-going-to-maui-future-with-msu-uncertain.html



And.......Drama at Northwestern...why Kevin Coble left...
and indeed all of this might well be good for Northwestern and the best thing that ever happened to John Shurna!!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/ncaa/11/19/coble.northwestern/index.html
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/18359/coble-left-northwestern-over-injury-dispute

Well..the answer just might be a little more clear -- but I am sure we'll still have some debate...

Today -- we have these new articles saying a few things that clarify what happened.....

First-- maybe Kevin Coble didn't owe anyone an explanation, but he sure did offer one -- and he did take the very, very unusual step of going behind the coach and team's back and writing a letter, via e mail, to Sports Illustrated, saying in effect the head coach is the bad guy for wanting Coble to simply be a part of the team and accompany the team on their European tour last year.

Second-- remember -- Coble was a FULL YEAR down the road from his injury and was still claiming he could NOT participate in any activities with the team because of his rehab regimen -- something I find really hard to believe...
Remember those quotes about how strangely Coble avoided many team functions and was a real "loner"...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=187590&postcount=13
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-07-27/sports/ct-spt-0729-northwestern-kevin-coble-20100727_1_nu-coach-bill-carmody-northwestern-quits

Third-- even in Coble's own words....Carmody didn't kick Coble off the team, in fact clearly he WANTED Coble to be part of the team and accompany them to Italy -- and it was OBVIOUS now that Coble simply didn't like the terms (whoa -- like a free vacation and trip to Italy!!) and up and QUIT with a capital "Q"!

Fourth-- obviously there was a lot of secret stuff going on and yet those reports of Coble's odd behavior and desire to never want to be part of the team -- were RIGHT ON -- so maybe those people who argued that we shouldn't read anything into those reports and who claimed we should just leave the kid alone because we were wrong about the story should admit that many here clearly saw this whole story for exactly what it was...



Not so sure this is a healthy lifestyle..
http://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/music/NATLRock-Stars-Then-and-Now-97329329.html

Keep in mind, these people have also had plastic surgery or they'd look even worse...and most of them are only 50 or so..

Have to admit Stevie Nicks and Joan Jett still look pretty nice
(fast forward to image #38 and 47)



Now -- the non-sports segment-- this one is in the really weird category that I just don't get...
But choose to believe as you want -- you simply cannot deny this is a weird one that would have never been an issue had it not been for ONE kid demanding that entire rest of the school, school district, and world change to accomodate his really unusual and even kinky demands!

This family in Maine has this boy who started to think he was a girl by the time he was a 5th grader...

so this BOY wants to use the girls bathroom...and NOT the boys' bathroom at school....regardless of what the 5th grade girls and their parents think about such a weird thing....
Of course, as expected, it causes so much disruption at the school that the school officials and other parents are outraged and DO NOT want this boy urinating in the girls bathroom!!

So the elementary school bans the kid from using the girls potty -- then the parents take it to the STATE COMMISSION on discrimination and they get the ruling overturned..but as you might guess they start filing lawsuits -- at least two already...

Then get this -- when the kid gets to 6th grade, he moves to a different middle school and they sue again to get the kid the right to use the little girls' 6th grade bathroom ...!

NOW GET THIS -- here's how far the school people actually went to try to satisfy everyone --
They even gave this boy-who-wants-to-be-a-girl HER OWN private "gender-neutral" bathroom and lockerroom facilities if he/she wanted to use them...but he/she didn't want to because he/she claims they felt that would lead to teasing from the other girls...

http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Statewide/Panel-rules-against-Orono-school-in-transgender-bathroom-access,154263


OMG -- if the kid is getting teased, it is because he is the only one in the girls bathroom with male sexual organs!!! It is the kid's and the parents' own choice that results in the "teasing"...what a bunch of jerks, making the entire world bow down to them and their idiotic and ridiculous demands for their perverted kid!
I don't condone any harassment or bullying, but this isn't too different from wearing a Bozo outfit to school then complaining if someone chuckles and calls you a clown!
If the kid is going to demand to do something so out of the ordinary and offensive to the other kids and their parents, then who does he have to blame when the other kids and parents react negatively to his actions??

Take your misguided kid and do what you want but I would never send my 5th grade girls to a school that lets or is forced to let boys use the girl's bathrooms just because the boy-with-a-penis thinks he is a girl!!

What am I missing in this?? This one should be a no-brainer -- if the kid is a boy he should follow the same common sense rules and behavior we have used for boys and girls and their privacy that have been in place for millenia!!

If you read that whole article - you see that even the thoughts and opinions of the other children in the school ticked off those parents and they wanted the SCHOOL (meaning the government) to be responsible for changing the other students' opinions about this kidd's perversion.

BTW there's dozens of reader comments - some of which are pretty good..

Here's the funniest part -- when the transgender boy was in 5th grade and the other boy followed him into the girls' potty -- the other boy (who knows he's a boy) was disciplined for entering the wrong bathroom...the same action that's condoned for the boy who wants to act like a girl.
SO -- the family of the normal BOY - who just went into the girls' bathroom as a joke - then also filed a claim that it's discrimination to allow one boy in the girls' bathroom, but disallow another boy!!!

These liberal idiots who want to create such a politically correct society that it's insane...have created a conundrum that'll never be solved now.
http://etransgender.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2088



BTW-- do you have any doubt that the perversion that causes girls like Elizabeth Smart to get kidnapped and raped, and the entire Ohio family to get murdered and their 13 year old to get raped, and same with that crippled kid Zahra Baker in North Carolina to get murdered/raped....
it's all because of the modern demands that we allow perversion in the world as it's just another way of normal expression ...this stuff not only rarely ever happened but was dealt with severely when it did...

Now, despite that it used to be rare........we have one of these perverts in the news every other day!! And it seems nobody's speaking out against these perverts -- as if there's a sort of legitimacy to their behavior!!
We now have a danged epidemic of perverts ..who all get taxpayer paid lawyers and trials and who typically get off easy.