Malcolm Kelly’s Called Sugar
I’ve been waiting all season for Fred Smoot to break out his library of nicknames for the team’s rookies, but he told me today that it’s a false hope, that I should pack up that blog item and store it in the basement for another year.
“I don’t play with rookies any more,” Smoot said. “Because coach didn’t let us do nothing to ‘em, so I don’t.”
Disappointing. Instead, I asked to get the nicknames of some new arrivals, like the newest, Ryan Boschetti.
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“We Grind You Up”: An Ed Tapscott Q&A
Coach Tap, teaching his signature. (By Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP)
There were some smiles at this morning’s Wiz shootaround. While the practice was still closed to the media, loud laughter was heard at one point, and Brendan Haywood was running stairs in the upper level of the arena with strength and conditioning coach Drew Cleary. That’s always good for some fun.
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Today in Blachisms: Mice Turds and Elephant Dung
Elephant dung. Roarrrrrgh! (By John McDonnell - TWP)
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Karl Alzner Arrives in D.C.
(By Marc Serota - Getty)
Over the summer, I wrote about some of Caps prospect Karl Alzner’s superstitions and good luck charms and the rest, including his tendency to make wishes at 11:11.
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Morning Look: Zorn’s Necklace
When Jim Zorn made this particular motion yesterday, he actually wasn’t saying anything depressing, nothing about his head hurting or his soul aching or his positive necklace vibes gradually leaking out of his necklace of unknown provenance. Actually, he was talking about Shaun Suisham’s missed field goal, and how he could see what happened (high snap, plant foot too far forward) with his own eyes, in real time.
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Post-Holiday Pith
(By Reinhold Matay - AP)
I’m so thankful for the 94 people who voted in this week’s Atlantic 11 poll that I spent several hours compiling this on Thanksgiving night, even though many of these jokes–written four days ago–don’t even make sense any more.
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Jason Campbell’s Ugly Slides Make Zorn Embarrassed
(By Toni L. Sandys - TWP)
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Zornucopia Explained
Sign creator Spencer is in the yellow hat on the left.
Some Redskins bloggers have made scattered mention of the Zornucopia sign from Sunday’s Seahawks game. Stupidly, I imagined this to be an homage to the bounty of the harvest season, the pumpkins and squashes and glorious root vegetables that will fill our tables with plenty tomorrow afternoon.
Yeah. Not so much. Turns out Reader Doug, a former co-worker at The Post, and his son Spencer were the creators of the sign. Doug e-mails with the explanation:
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Jimmy Patsos Continues to Lose His Mind
Sometimes you have to lose in order to lose. (By Chuck Burton - AP)
So last night was very good for ex-Gary Williams assistant Ed Tapscott, but it was even more awesome for ex-Gary Williams assistant Jimmy Patsos. Any time the head coach at Loyola can make national news twice in two weeks, he’s doing something right.
Turns out his self-imposed exile on the end of the bench and then in the stands was only Patsos’s opening act this year. Yesterday, he decided to double team the nation’s leading scorer, Stephen Curry, all night, allowing Davidson to play four on three against Loyola on the rest of the floor. It didn’t necessarily work; Loyola lost by 30. But the strategy was deemed such an awesome success that the Greyhounds kept it up even in the final awesome minutes.
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Local Poll Week II: Welcome VMI
If you, like me, consider the primary purpose of the Atlantic 11 poll to occasionally mock our area’s larger basketball programs and promote our area’s smaller basketball programs, this week’s results were a mixed bag.
On the one hand, VMI rode its Kentucky upset, and the tears of Ashley Judd, to a No. 8 ranking, a true victory for humanity. On the other hand, four BCS-conference schools are eligible for these rankings, and they’ve all set up residence in the Top 5. Highly disconcerting. Other notes:
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