■ Is it just me or does Dave Rice need to tape a cheetah to Anthony Bennett’s back so he can get up and down the court a little faster? I’m talking about paying $799 for access to a lounge. ■ Fans at Auto Club Speedway in California who pay $799 for access to the new Pit Box Lounge will be able to enter the bar area via a spiral slide. In Laramie, when stuff happens, it’s almost always at a place called the Buckhorn Bar, or the Dusty Spurs Saloon, or the Dew Drop Inn. ■ Luke Martinez, one of the top scorers for the Wyoming basketball team, has been suspended indefinitely for getting into a fight in a Laramie bar. Or at Sunset Park in June when the Shirts play the Skins. Jackson will try to get even March 9 when the Bears host the Jayhawks. Johnson scored 12 points Jackson scored 10. ■ Elijah Johnson (Cheyenne High) and Kansas beat Pierre Jackson (Desert Pines) and Baylor, 61-44 on Jan. You should also make sure the guy you bet with isn’t meaner than Joe Greene. ■ Did you know that new UNLV offensive coordinator Timm Rosenbach is the only Phoenix Cardinals quarterback to start all 16 games of an NFL season? But if you use this information to win a bar bet, make sure you say "Phoenix" and not "Arizona" Cardinals. Maybe there really is a Big Dodger in the Sky. ■ So Earl Weaver passes Saturday, then a few hours later, maybe around the eighth inning had there been a ballgame scheduled – just about the time the home team could really use a three-run homer – Stan Musial dies. It looks like Father O’Malley will be having a third collection on Sunday. It goes flubt!, or whatever sound it makes when a perfectly executed jump shot hits the bottom of a net that resembles a crossing guard’s safety belt.Īccording to the website, there’s a new and improved DuraNet that comes with "double legs" and an "arched bottom" and a "better swish." It costs $40. So the other day I’m jacking 3s like the Rebels, and like on the 12th one I draw iron, and then the 21st or 22nd one feels real good when it leaves my hand. Because the nets at Sunset Park now look like those safety belts that crossing guards wear, only they are black instead of orange. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn the advent of the chain net can be traced to the former East Germany.īut then the one guy from the suburbs who could dunk must have gotten his ring finger stuck in a chain net, and then there probably was a little blood, and then there probably was a lawsuit. This is why chain nets, which produce an industrial sounding swish!, were invented. Besides misdemeanor crime, this would account for the rims in Philly not having nets. Plus the presence of priests and nuns often discouraged fights after ticky-tack fouls were called.)īut nylon nets don’t hold up in inclement weather. (Sacred Heart was one of my favorite places to play pickup basketball – not only because the asphalt had nets, but because the court was tucked between the church and the convent, so no wind. Father O’Malley bought some new ones with money from the second collection." "Wanna go down to Sacred Heart and shoot some hoops?" When I used to be able sink jump shots, that always was a factor. In that case, one will be rewarded with a long walk to fetch one’s basketball. Swish! Unless one is shooting baskets in the inner city of Philadelphia, or someplace like that, where the rims in the schoolyards usually don’t have nets. If one shoots a basketball in a perfect arc, and it doesn’t touch iron – and the wind’s not blowing too hard – one will be rewarded. But when two basketballs enter the cylinder simultaneously, they don’t make that swish! sound.Īnd without the swish! sound, it’s hard to make a strong case for shooting baskets. I used to think this was cool, until I did it once, after sneaking onto the court with the starters on the J.V. Sometimes a third ball clogs the cylinder, and then one of the power forwards has to poke the balls out the top before the basket starts to look like a sack of oranges. If you’ve been to an NBA shoot-around, unless it’s a Wizards shoot-around, you’ve probably seen this. So it’s possible for two balls to fit inside the rim at once. An official basketball rim is 18 inches in diameter, about an inch wider than twice the diameter of an official men’s basketball.
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