Nice to see Louisville’s Kevin Ware is healing up well, and rather quickly. (H/T Bob’s Blitz)
Today in Amazing Photo Captions comes this Getty Images jawn from a YahooSports story about Shaq’s jersey getting retired in L.A. the other night. In it, “an unidentified Laker fan” sports O’Neal’s No. 34. I can see how it would be tough to identify that Laker fan. After all, Flea is from a band called…
J Bo reflects — with eloquence, grace and proper spacing — on the Phillies’ first win of the 2013 season. *In which I, blatantly ripping off Deadspin’s wonderful-but-retired Canseco motivational-poster premise, highlight the pinnacle of Philadelphia meteorologist/bon vivant “J Bo” John Bolaris’ Twit-sharing. Feel free to share here, or via Twitter.
A friend who shall remain nameless — by his/her request — texted this screengrab from Opening Day in Atlanta, where the Barves defeated the Phillies 7-5 or something like that. Quite frankly, I can’t tell if the brightest of heads, the tomahawk wielded like a trident or the shifty side-eyed ogling holds it all together.…
Bernard Thompson, a guard on the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles basketball team, had one last thing to say before leaving the press conference after he and his teammates became the first-ever No. 15 seed to advance to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet Sixteen round. “Dunk City is coming to Arlington,” he said, “so everybody be ready.”…
The Georgetown Hoyas arrived via bus at the Wells Fargo Center. After the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles’ stunning upset of Georgetown, Sherwood Brown — he of the dreads and 24 points — engages the vocal FGCU fan section. Brown’s fan-engagement efforts continued on for a few minutes. Before long, his teammates joined him. This was…
Florida Gulf Coast Eagles 78, Georgetown Hoyas 68. (Gif H/T Bubbaprog) My story from NewsWorks (excerpt): Fieler was asked whether he had ever jumped as high as he did on that alley-oop. He said he thinks he may have. Maybe. Brown, who passed the ball to Comer, said they knew they had nothing to lose…