Monday, July 18, 2005
GET OFF THIS
Get on with it.
With that completely unnecessary Cracker reference, welcome to Monday, a Mariner off day.
Thus, my material today will be non-Mariner stuff, and other stuff that wouldn't fit in the Mariner posts. Like...
-- Random Seahawk Sal thread about Shaun Alexander. The Geocities link that's in that thread has WAY too much stat stuff on Shaun Alexander, trying to prove/debunk popular Shaun Alexander myths, etc. Things like "Shaun runs out of bounds too much"...it's things like that which are covered by said stat stuff. Is it too much? Yes. But it's still there.
-- I randomly went to the Ken Pomeroy college basketball blog after yesterday's Mariner game and saw this. Have you ever wondered what conference has the best homecourt advantage in the past five years? The Pac10 is 23rd out of 31 conferences with a .602 winning clip. The Mountain West leads the way with a .686 buzzsaw.
-- Here's your important NHL dates. Basically, the last week of July is going to be nuts. If you find yourself let down at baseball's trade deadline, look no further than the next day, August 1st, when the NHL's free-agent signing period begins. Watch as everyone goes nuts as certain teams have to fit under the salary cap! Oh yeah, here's a bonus hockey image. Thanks, CBC.
-- Last, but definitely not least, congrats to 2002 Bremerton HS grad Dana Kirk, who swept the 100 (yesterday) and 200 (Friday) butterfly events over the weekend at the Janet Evans Invitational, held at USC. In related news, the 2005 FINA worlds are underway in Montreal. The actual swimming-against-clock events (as in not water polo, diving, or synchronized swimming, or open water) go from the 24th to the 31st. Unless something happened while I was over here trying to get my place for most of June, Dana's sister Tara will be swimming in Montreal in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events after having qualified for them back in early April.
-- Really last this time, I've been waiting a long time to read a sentence like "Atlanta's rookie draft picks hooked up for a nice play towards the end of the first quarter, with Salim Stoudamire finding Marvin Williams for a breakaway dunk to put the Hawks up, 18-11." Read more about it here, as 2004 Bremerton grad Marvin Williams scored 11 points and grabbed 4 boards in a Rocky Mountain Revue summer league game against the Dallas Mavericks' summer team.
Well, I might have more later, but I've got to get to sleep here. It's not because it's 1am, because it's 10pm here in Hawaii. I just get up way too early. It's not because I want to get up early, folks.
Enjoy your Mariner off day.
With that completely unnecessary Cracker reference, welcome to Monday, a Mariner off day.
Thus, my material today will be non-Mariner stuff, and other stuff that wouldn't fit in the Mariner posts. Like...
-- Random Seahawk Sal thread about Shaun Alexander. The Geocities link that's in that thread has WAY too much stat stuff on Shaun Alexander, trying to prove/debunk popular Shaun Alexander myths, etc. Things like "Shaun runs out of bounds too much"...it's things like that which are covered by said stat stuff. Is it too much? Yes. But it's still there.
-- I randomly went to the Ken Pomeroy college basketball blog after yesterday's Mariner game and saw this. Have you ever wondered what conference has the best homecourt advantage in the past five years? The Pac10 is 23rd out of 31 conferences with a .602 winning clip. The Mountain West leads the way with a .686 buzzsaw.
-- Here's your important NHL dates. Basically, the last week of July is going to be nuts. If you find yourself let down at baseball's trade deadline, look no further than the next day, August 1st, when the NHL's free-agent signing period begins. Watch as everyone goes nuts as certain teams have to fit under the salary cap! Oh yeah, here's a bonus hockey image. Thanks, CBC.
-- Last, but definitely not least, congrats to 2002 Bremerton HS grad Dana Kirk, who swept the 100 (yesterday) and 200 (Friday) butterfly events over the weekend at the Janet Evans Invitational, held at USC. In related news, the 2005 FINA worlds are underway in Montreal. The actual swimming-against-clock events (as in not water polo, diving, or synchronized swimming, or open water) go from the 24th to the 31st. Unless something happened while I was over here trying to get my place for most of June, Dana's sister Tara will be swimming in Montreal in the 100 and 200 breaststroke events after having qualified for them back in early April.
-- Really last this time, I've been waiting a long time to read a sentence like "Atlanta's rookie draft picks hooked up for a nice play towards the end of the first quarter, with Salim Stoudamire finding Marvin Williams for a breakaway dunk to put the Hawks up, 18-11." Read more about it here, as 2004 Bremerton grad Marvin Williams scored 11 points and grabbed 4 boards in a Rocky Mountain Revue summer league game against the Dallas Mavericks' summer team.
Well, I might have more later, but I've got to get to sleep here. It's not because it's 1am, because it's 10pm here in Hawaii. I just get up way too early. It's not because I want to get up early, folks.
Enjoy your Mariner off day.
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