Track meet musings
By Brian Budnick | April 21, 2006Before getting to the column this week, I have great news for the Living Wage Campaign. Using my contacts at the NBA, I have been in touch with "living wage" advocate Latrell Sprewell.
Before getting to the column this week, I have great news for the Living Wage Campaign. Using my contacts at the NBA, I have been in touch with "living wage" advocate Latrell Sprewell.
I caught March Madness. Badly. Not the basketball one. I mean sure, I watched a ton of games, but that's just being a good sports fan.
UConn made me love the single sanction. A.J. Price and Marcus Williams, two guards on the UConn men's basketball team, were involved in the theft of $11,000 worth of computers from fellow students this past summer. According to MSNBC, "In their criminal cases, both applied for a special form of probation for first-time offenders.
I went to the NBA All-Star Game in Houston this past weekend. By "went," I mean I worked 15-18 hours a day with the same division of the NBA that I had the privilege of interning with the past two summers.
My dad and I firmly believe there are two ways to pick the winner of a Super Bowl, or any sporting event, if your team is not in the game.
In the season finale of "South Park," the boys learned a valuable lesson: "Do not raku disciprine." It may have been told in a mildly offensive, yet still funny accent, but the message of the boys instructor rang loud and true in 2005.
Matt Deasey has filled up the stat box with a whopping three minutes this season and not a single other statistic.
Sports are ubiquitous at U.Va. People are always running. We might even be the only University to have our own running celebrity: "Crazy Running Man." Our recreational facilities are consistently rated as among the best in the nation.
I love the NBA. It has always been and always will be my favorite sport. If you don't love this game, you don't know what you're missing.
A lot has changed in the cable world in my two decades of watching TV. Now, MTV gives equal time to "Super Sweet Sixteen" and music videos.