“ Life after basketball.... 76000 in attendance at the Ncaa’s final four last night A “High noon”show down manana. Butler versus Uconn’s gum chewing Jim Calhoun and his Bronx born “Apollo theater” led Kemba Walker taking on the Bulldogs collective “repeat” manana ... nine pm. E.S.T.
Things won’t get better until they get worst” say the bloger pundits not unlike Walter Lippman Max Lerner James Wechsler and Grantland Rice Jimmy Cannon Red
Smith in sports.. scribbling down to earth themes in defunct Hollywood Citizen News Daily
Bruin...
Midwood High’s Argus print points....their dynamic hoopsters...
Coach Barney Cohen’s ..Lenny Singer. Honest Bill Rosenblatt Shelly Fein Wally Kaplan Jackie Singer Buddy Solomon Norman “Lefty” Fisher Stan Rubin Gerry Ringelheim Howie Weisglass Eddie Joachim Shelly Flanzig Marv(“commish”)Glauberman Lustgarten the “moose” Dym
Versus Maxie Zaviliofsky Danny Forman, Hy Gotkin, Harry Boykoff Sid Tannenbaum
Al Goodlearner in their gym bleacher hoop de loop.
Right Joey Rodriquez? “As time goes by”.
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Who would have known that Virginia Commonwealth would have scorched their
final four ride to Ncaa’s “ultimate”...alumni boosters fans going
ballistic.....”standing tall” in Bill Walton’s prime time..
“Nah not me coach. A seer I am not..No crystal ball telepathy here.”
Resurrecting Lee J Cobb’s.’s “Virginian” role. Not settling for anything less than shooting the lights out as they say... the Kansas jay hawks not knowing Senor Rodriquez was feeling it like was Benito Juarez in disguise, hitting the nylon from downtown.
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What could the Spider Man say about that feat, climbing the tallest building in the world earlier in downtown Dubai? 160 stories in six hours.
And talking about cyber space , what about reactor 2 spilling plutonium (“contaminated water”)
from the nuclear reactor in Japan’s Fukushima province..shades of Hiroshima and Nakasaki in
then summer of ‘45 ending World War 2.
The chain of causation stemming from the 9 point quake and tsunami .....
Libya’s own 40 years of Khadafi nightmare within the qualms of inevitable disaster.
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But even in resurrecting the dinosaur age, CBS’s “60 minutes” hit a high of empathy, highlighting corporate greed on the planet as elite corporations strive for profit margins by settling in
Swiss and Irish venues.
Yet a 56 year old “Mother Teresa” from Staten Island takes in maimed children from battle worn Iraq and gets selfless peoples people to put their arms legs eye and face back together
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On a “pumpkin” “orange” from the perimeter ,the high school coach Bob Hurley of Saint Anthony’s in Jersey City, lighting it up across the river... 1000 w’s.... with his full court conditioning, his stalwarts going on to college quintets and the NBA....9 thousand $ a year, his frau at the scorer’s table, his 2 sons coaching at the college level. .....
When are you coming home, Michael Jordan?
The Big Apple, April 3, 2011
