State Farm Classic results -- link to follow results, followup on AP, OE, MJ, and a Joke of the Day about our economy...

Follow all the action at the Bloomington State Farm Holiday Classic here.....
http://theclassic.org/inside/scores/
http://theclassic.org/inside/category/results/



Anthony Parker had a great game yesterday....
..21 pts, 7 reb, 7 asst ..but the Cleveland Cavaliers are bad and so they lost anyway...
Danny Granger also had a good game......29 points!



A kid Bradley had been recruiting, prep school wing Charles McKinney, has just verbaled to DePaul....
http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1169313




Here's a funny bit of followup to the Osiris Eldridge story from yesterday...

OE's team's fans get a bit of revenge -- Eldridge's team has fans who hacked and attacked the Cypriot web sites to get even for the attack on their players...
kinda funny way to get even!!
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad-application/hackers-avenge-basketball-riot/story-fn6bn7je-1225976880948

The Karsiyaka team officials think the penalties are way too soft and have demanded a two year ban on Cyprus from competing internationally..
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/hooligans/scramble-limit-political-damage/20101224

And one more weird note involving Osiris Eldridge!

On Christmas Day, Eldridge's Karsiyaka team was to play Allen Iverson's Besiktas...but the game was set back to December 26 and the reason for the change of date was never made very clear....
....nor the reasons that several of Karsiyaka's best players did not play.

BUT -- digging a little and translating some of the Karsiyaka releaases....
..the reason the game was delayed was due to a complaint by the Karsiyaka team that their players had played too many games in a short span that required extensive travel
and that they were exhausted -- plus they were required after the riots in Cyprus to stay there an extra day to assure their safety before traveling back to Turkey...
And all of this hadn't given the team adequate time to rest and practice & prepare...and even with the date being set back to Dec. 26, Karsiyaka protested the game by showing up
with only their SEVEN youngest and most junior players plus an "amateur guest player" -- all junior players 15-16 years old.....virtually guaranteeing them a loss but making the point...
Here's a translated quote form the Karsiyaka site..
"(The) federation has decided to postpone the regular season game Beşiktaş C.T. vs P. Karşıyaka from Saturday to Sunday (1 day only)
upon the request of Karşıyaka team for a postpone.
..As a protest, Karşıyaka team will attend the game on Sunday with 7 players only all 15-16 yo players who serve U-teams."

Iverson's team prevailed rather easily 89-65..but clearly Osiris Eldridge did not play at all, and neither did Karsiyaka's best player and top PG David Holston...nor many of their regulars.
http://www.eurobasket.com/boxScores/Turkey/2010/1226_1035_190.asp



Th latest version of Michael Jordan's Nike Air shoes is out and the mere arrival of this new version has prompted riots and arrests!!
I guess I feel sorry for anyone who's gotta have an amazingly overpriced pair of $200 shoes that badly.
I once had someone tell me "just wait 'til you kids are teenagers, and when they have to have these $150 shoes, you'll get them because it'll be for your own kids"...
Well - I am here to tell you that guy was and will remain dead wrong and maybe didn't know himself how to raise kids to understand the value of a buck.
I've never paid nor ever will pay anywhere even near to a fraction of that kind of money for a pair of shoes that I know cost the manufacturer only a few dollars to produce and which have a markup and profit margin of 2,000%
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16928585?nclick_check=1



Speaking of MJ -- here's what he's doing with all the profits he makes of those bozos who feel compelled to waste $200 on a pair of Jordan's shoes....
He is buying really expensive real estate and remodeling to his custom needs.
He's spent over $3 million to buy a couple of condos totaling 7000 square feet.
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/26286476/detail.html



Finally, in the non-sports stuff, here's a funny old joke that kinda reminds us of how the federal government and the people spending all our money are acting...
all their stimuli and handouts, and giveaways are NOT working, so guess what their response if and what they're gonna do next....
yup -- more stimulus giveaways of our money...what a waste -- right down the toilet and there's just no place left to go get more money so it drives us deeper in debt.

it's a little joke called...

THE OUTHOUSE

One day this guy was hiking up to an old camp.
There was an outhouse along the way, so the guy goes up to the outhouse and accidentally drops a nickel down the hole.

He was very upset about this and threw his whole wallet down into the hole.

Another guy who was hiking saw him throw his wallet down in the outhouse hole and asked,
"Hey buddy, what did you do that for?"

The guy's reply was,
"You didn't think I would go down there for just a nickel did you?"
http://www.canadianconnections.ca/jokes/nickel.html