Recognize these uniforms??? Betcha don't -- this is Oregon State....yup..
Oregon State whose uniforms are ORANGE and BLACK ---
(and their coach is Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama's brother!)
..but they're going to do a special promotion...
Now -- don't get me started....these special promotions are a little daffy -- especially the ubiquitous one where everyone wears pink, even in the NFL and Major League Baseball -- yet despite my trying for years to find an answer -- I have yet to see convincing evidence that even ONE penny of money from any of these promotions actually ends up helping people.
It is generally said that all of this is for AWARENESS!!! Hmmmm...personally I think there's a little awareness-overkill on the pink thing that causes people to tune it out and purposely ignore it all as it has become so trivialized and over-promoted.
I am not against people supporting charities -- but 99% of all this is people telling YOU to support charities while they PROMOTE and support themselves!
Anyway -- Oregon State is doing it with the turquoise uni's ....and guess what the odd turquoise color is representing...
Here is the explanation...Native American Awareness
"The uniforms are the focal point of a unique partnership between Oregon State and Nike N7 that is focused on creating awareness for the need to bring access to sport for Native American and Aboriginal youth as a means to improve their lives and create positive change in their communities. The turquoise color of the Nike uniforms is a distinct departure from Oregon State’s traditional orange and black and is deeply symbolic of friendship and community in Native American culture."
So -- let me get this straight -- this is for Native Americans and Aborigines...and turquoise is their color?? I assume it's because people market and hawk turquoise jewelry when you visit the Southwest??
Personally I would prefer to see people choose willingly to support worthy causes and charities....we do it all the time........
but this whole thing is really just a self-promotion by Nike and Oregon State in my opinion. Nobody just gives their time or money any more -- they have to make sure you see them and they holler out loud -
"look at me and look what I am doing for someone else who's in need of my charitable efforts"...
http://www.nikebiz.com/media/pr/2010/11/16_Nike_OSU_Turquoise_Uniforms.html
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=126851
News and update on the rape issues at Saint Louis University...
The press folks have gotten the police reports and figured out a whole lot more..
this gets graphic so read at your own risk...
And none of this seems to interest anyone in the regular press...at least not yet -- as it's only appearing in obscure places and blogs...
Anyway here's the skinny --
the victim claims that FOUR separate members of the Saint Louis University men's basketball team assaulted her or were involved in the assaults.
Those players were starters and stars - Kwamain Mitchell (dismissed but expecting to return and play for SLU next semester), and Willie Reed (dismissed and now at Kansas State). Plus subs Jon Smith (transferred to Ohio University) and Justin Jordan (transferred to and already dismissed from Ball State).
Read for yourself the description of what happened, but even just the title of this blog kinda tells you that some pretty seedy stuff was going on...and even the police had all the info including some pretty blunt admissions from the players, yet the prosecutors declined to even pursue this and all the players are going to get off scott-free.
BUT - note also the routine description on the police report of any and all potential "weapons" that they took into custody...
...note weapons listed are "hands, fists, feet..."
..this is just a pretty routine listing and of course would have also listed knives or guns had they been used..it's just customary on all police reports.
-- but clearly this does NOT mean those were what was used as weapons..only that they comprise all of the potential weapons in custody..
This was obvious the St. Louis press, who never did and certainly never would have concluded, then reported that the assault took place with battering by hands, fists, and feet...as some media people would conclude...
Remember -- the mere presence of those similar words on one Peoria police report a couple years ago led to our local press fabricating a story of an assault taking place via "battering by hands and feet"...
Just goes to show the difference between good and responsible journalism and the opposite.
Here's the articles..four full pages and links..
"Police Report: SLU Basketball Players Plotted "Pulling a Train" on Victim"
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/11/slu_basketball_sexual_assault_kwamain_mitchell_willie_reed.php
And the police reports...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42690639/SLU-Basketball-Police-Report
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42775788/SLU-Basketball-Police-Report-Supplement#
Hard to imagine that it took several months before the school dismissed the players and one of them is still planning to return and play and that head coach Rick Majerus is angry that all this punishment is unfair, that the kids should get off the hook, and that all it does it hurt him and his team because they could have been good this year!
Come on Rick -- have a sense of decency -- and try to recruit some quality kids and get rid of thugs like this!
Did you see the box score on the Tennessee-Belmont game?
Weird..Tennessee won but not by much over Belmont...
Tennessee shoots 53.2% from the field, scores 85 points, outrebounds Belmont horribly (36-21), and even gets to the FT line 40 times - outscoring Belmont at the line by 13!!! -- with all of Belmont's starters either fouling out or having 4 fouls!
..and playing in front of their home crowd of almost 17,000..
Yet -- this was a 1-point game with 36 seconds left!!! AND Belmont was shooting FT's to take the lead!!!! -- and MISSED!!!
Then the refs called a foul on the rebound of the missed FT -- it was not a foul Belmont needed to give -- and the rest is history as Tennessee shot and made EIGHT free throws in the final 35 seconds -- playing with ALL FIVE of their starters in there right to the end !!
kinda sounds like Tennessee, who already lost to a D-II, is not real strong and needs help from the refs to pull this one out!
I wonder if we'll see any remaining surprises....as the Letter of Intent signing period goes to midnight tonight...
After a bad game yesterday vs. Northeastern...more bad news for SIU
Ex-Saluki Randall Falker, playing for French reigning champs Cholet...
through the first 5 games, is struggling -- 5ppg, 5 rpg..
....and he's hampered with injuries...and there's rumors the club may "move him".
...and in Europe, if a guy gets injured, many teams have the right to just cut the guy and not pay him!!
Here are some tidbits on some games played last night...
--Arizona State loses to New Mexico
Brandon Dunson injured his his left hand a couple days ago -- and although dressed, did not play.
Here's a nice interview and story about Brandon...
http://ht.ly/19W2OY
Brandon Dunson has his own college basketball blog!
http://bmdunson.wordpress.com/
NOTE that Brandon does a preview of Illinois State!
And he thinks Michigan State is better than Duke...
Hersey's son Corey Hawkins, played four minutes in the game but scoreless, so he cannot redshirt...Brandon Dunson has already used his redshirt year..
Missouri State beat Arkansas State 80-71, Weems and Mallet nice games.
At Furman -- after getting a lot of playing time since he was a freshman, Richwoods' Justin Dehm now gets far less PT as a sub, and is averaging only 3 ppg and 1.5 apg.
Ex-BU recruit Cephas Oglesby who went to Towson -- isn't playing at all, hampered with bad knees.
Matt Roth still not playing at IU -- knee injury.
Daniel West at Rhode Island is subbing as PG but doing OK..
Last night - 14 pts, 6 asst...
on the season, 9 ppg, 8 assists per game, 3.5 steals per game!
SEMO's Leon Powell's season stats thus far..
65.4% FG shooting, 18.5 ppg, 12 reb per game,
Northern Iowa beat Coe College -- had a 43-17 halftime lead..
They outrebounded Coe 46-21
Ahelegbe - 11 pts, 1 asst
Wisconsin beat North Dakota 85-53, Ben Brust 0-1 scoreless
Wichita State 79-67 over Texas Southern to go 1-0.
Big men Ellis, Stutz, and Orukpe combined for 43 minutes, but only 10 pts,
Murry had 10 pts.
DePaul loses to WCU -- 69-64
they shoot 2-13 from 3pt, only 20-32 from FT line,
ex-BU recruit Devin Hill was 0-3 and only 1-4 from the line for just 1 pt.
Nevada has 2 previously 4-Star, Top 100 transfers...
Joey Shaw
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Joey-Shaw-26534
Olek Czyz
http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75&p=8&c=1&nid=3117524
Neither one can even crack the lineup -- shows how bad some rankings are when 4-Star and 5-Star kids (like Beas Hamga) end up proving how overrated certain recruits are.
The debut of Dayton's Juwann Staten -- 4-Stars...some think even top 20..
he started, played 31 minutes and scored 11 on 5-12
some might recall this kid... John Hayward-Mayhew, the Missouri State recruit who left and was a Salt Lake CC teammate of Darian Norris...
He is now at Cal State Northridge...
and so he's a junior, juco transfer...
but even in a program that's as obviously weak at CSUN, he is unable to help much at all..hasn't made a basket yet in two games, and CSUN is 0-2 with two blowout, 30-pt losses.
Good news -- their next game is against "Vanguard"...
Here's a juco kid that must certainly get some ribbing from the fans...
His name is......
Justin Bieber -- he's a teammate at Elgin CC of Limestone's Marquis Lobdell (averaging 16 ppg!) who was a teammate of Donivine.
http://www.elgin.edu/mbasketball.aspx?id=14426
http://njcaa.org/colleges_college_player.cfm?sid=5&collegeid=1293&category=Roster&slid=2&teamid=104769&athleteid=315609
For Des Moines Area CC, Kannon Burrage, 6-3 guard, a kid from Moline that BU had looked at...is averaging 25.3 ppg thru 4 games!
(14-23, 61% on 3-pointers)
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