So, in case you were thinking that picture was a phenomenal photshop job, sorry to disappoint, but that’s me sitting at the table in the media room. How many greats have sat at that same table? I was just playing around though. My real press conference was at the high school. Okay, so I didn’t really have a press conference. That IS me sitting at that table though.
On an unrelated note, Dan Patrick was talking about sports mulligans today (things that happened in sports that the principals would want to have a “do-over” for), and my submission made the cut to be read on-air, and posted on his website. The post is here right under the Ty Willingham pic. (WARNING: It’s a Sports Illustrated site, and one of the current banner ads that may pop up is to order your swimsuit calendar.) You have to fast forward to find it, but the audio is here here in hour 2, almost 3/4 of the way through, after the Charles Barkley segment. If you need a history lesson, let me know.
J, I’ll take you up on that history lesson.
OK, first Larry Eustacy: He was the head basketball coach at Iowa State, and a pertty good one at that. Unfortunatley, when he went on the road, he liked to show up at college parties and do the same things the kids were doing. One time, someone took pictures, and of course they got out. Usually, universities don’t like it when their head coach is out partying with co-eds, so he got fired. Hasn’t really done much since.
Kermit Washington played for the Lakers and a fight broke out when they were playing the Rockets one night back in the day (like the contradiction there?), late 70’s I believe. Must have been, because Kareem was already in the league, and it was in those “dark days” before Magic and Bird saved the NBA. Anyway, in one of the sickest moments in basketball history, he punched Rudy Tomjanovich in the face, nearly killing him. Some say that as the beginning of the end for both their careers, though they both played a few more years.