Lots of miscellaneous basketball news and followups..

Ex-BU favorite - Chris Roberts has now left his Mexican team, Fuerza Regia after leading them to 1st place and a record of 27-6...
Chris will now return to the NBDL Texas Legends in hopes of getting a shot at an NBA roster.

The LA Lakers held a public intrasquad game - a Purple & White game...
..and Bradley's Zach Andrews impressed!

Here's what was said about Zach on the official NBA Lakers site...
"Those that took the time to watch the L.A. D-Fenders open 6-2 in the D-League got to see Zach Andrews get all nasty on a bunch of dunks. He here added a few more, highlighted by a sick baseline reverse that came just after former NBA dunk champ Gerald Green missed his own attempted hammer dunk on the other end."

Other commentators said this about Zach...
"D-Fenders callup Zach Andrews impressed with his size, athleticism and defense. Andrews had the two best dunks of the afternoon...I wouldn't be surprised if Andrews made the roster with Derrick Caracter out."

and..
"Zach Andrews - Active, live big body. Nice offensive rebounding and hustle. If consistent, may have an outside chance to make this roster.
Andrews..had two really sick dunks..probably the highlight of the entire scrimmage."


The Philly press gives Bradley zero credit for fighting back last night and making the game close --
they just say Drexel let BU back in the game..
http://articles.philly.com/2011-12-17/news/30528930_1_samme-givens-drexel-dragons


Here's a great old video for anyone interested - BU vs. UTEP in the 1986 NCAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOny-uUN09U&feature=player_embedded


In the NBDL - Zach Andrews' old team the LA D-Fenders absolutely annihilated Osiris Eldridge's team, Bakersfield.. 96-68 with King O scoring only 8 on 4-15 and only 1 asst & 1 rebound.
this comes on the heels of an incredible game for King O...
he put up 52 points against a Zach Andrews-less D-Fenders --
http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/20111216/LADBAK/gameinfo.html

Some people have been touting Osiris as an NBA prospect - and this game might open some eyes....but if he's going to play in the big league a 6-2 shooting guard is gonna have to shoot better than 32% from 3-pt range...


Here's a funny headline to a story...
"Surging Loyola Hosts Rockhurst In Final Home Non-Conference Game Of 2011-12"
http://www.loyolaramblers.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/121811aaa.html?source=rss_teams_Loyola-Chicago_Ramblers

Are they serious?? Loyola is doing terribly - they are 3-7 and have beaten only 3 really low-level opponents like Chicago State, they've been scoring in the 40-point range in some games, even losing to EIU, and the next game is against an obscure non-D-I Rockhurst!!
Nice spin on the situation, though...


Pac-10 continues to really stink big time...
Last night Arizona State lost to newbie D-I Northern Arizona and USC lost to Georgia.
Meanwhile UCLA finally finds someone to beat playing rebuilding UC-D.
Arizona lost as well.
Pac-12 current record as a conference is 68-46! Seven teams have 4 or more non-conference losses!


Indiana wins again - with 10 different players getting time - and Remy Abell getting a nice put-back at the halftime buzzer to send the Hoosiers to a halftime lead of 26-20 - however, Matt Roth never got even a second of playing time..what a waste --
Memo to MR -- you can transfer without any penalties!


One more interesting game yesterday -- Dayton was losing to FIU 30-22 at half then outscored Isiah Thomas' squad 39-10 the rest of the way to pull it out.


BTW -- for those who predicted Jimmer Fredette would fail in the NBA -- hasn't happened yet...
last night in preseason play he was 4-6 from beyond the arc, 7-11 overall, and finished with 21 points, 4 asst, 4 rebs.


Ex-Richwoods SG Mason Alwan still struggling - shooting only 29% from the field and 22% on 3-pointers...takes a ton of shots though for Lincoln Land - 16-18 per game!


Ex-St. Pat's SG who BU was pursuing, Jacob Williams, is hitting 50% on 3-pointers (11-22)


Lastly -- so Jim Les didn't recognize talent??
He was one of the only coaches in all of D-I to pursue and offer this kid who is leading all of Division I in scoring...
Damian Lillard of Weber State -
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/15/SPR31MC5US.DTL


The letter to the editor this morning in the local paper regarding the media's treatment of Tebow was written by the mother-in-law of an ex-Bradley basketball player!


Reknowned atheist dies...
..perhaps the 2nd most outspoken and widely known atheist just died
Christopher Hitchens -- everyone calls him an essayist, literary critic and journalist..but he's most well known for being the 2nd most visible (besides Richard Dawkins) atheist who was always on TV and writing pieces to attack God and people of faith.

He died at just 62 - of esophageal cancer..was a far left liberal -
his book "God Is Not Great" became the bible of the atheists the past few years...
BTW - esophageal cancer's two main external risk factors are drinking and smoking and Hitchens was prolific at both...

BUT -- he was not just an atheist -- he was a self-described ANTI-THEIST...
meaning he was so openly hostile towards God and anyone who believed in God, then he felt it was his life's purpose to try to attack and destroy anyone who expressed belief..
He even openly attacked and insulted people such as Mother Teresa (calling her a fake and a fraud) and saying about Ronald Reagan - "The world would have been better off had he been assassinated early in his Presidency" and was well known for his attacks on Jerry Falwell and even CHEERING Falwell's death on NATIONAL TV when Falwell died...saying if there is a HELL certainly Falwell is there and deserved to be there...
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/naked...lls-death.html

And he called organized religion "the main source of hatred in the world" and said...
"The real axis of evil and hatred is Christianity and Judaism..."

Watch this video of a confrontation between Hitchens and Al Sharpton where Hitchens cites religion and belief in God as the worst force in the history of the world..

"... God and religion is a malignant force in the world, citing numerous historical instances in which sexual repression and outrageous acts of violence have been committed in the name of God. At the same time, he proposed that science and reason could replace that..."
http://gothamist.com/2011/12/16/video_hitchens_vs_sharpton_on_wheth.php

Wow - is this guy misinformed....
does he not know that all of the world's worst murderers and tyrants were GODLESS people who slaughtered independently of any sense of faith or religion...
Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and many others were all atheists or godless men...
..even the worst individual murderers in history were godless people - John Wayne Gacy, Wayne Williams (Altanta murderer), Gary Ridgeway (Green River Killer)..

In fact, this mantra the atheists babble about how religion can be blamed for gobs of offenses is so ridiculous that someone has to take a stance and expose it...

Pretty much anywhere in the entire world - wherever Christianity abounds, then the treatment of women improves, lawlessness and oppression declines, and the standards of living improve.
Without organized Judeo-Christian religion - we'd still pretty much be living in the dark ages with the likes of Attila the Hun, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, and Hitler ruling over our every move...