30 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted in Sports
A few vids I found while still on this basketball high after watching the NCAA Regional Finals this morning. They’re a sort of behind the scenes all-access video thing of the UConn Women’s Basketball during the 2009-2010 season.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYcoFwmNiko
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grrlt50Zdag
30 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted in Sports
UCONN vs NOTRE DAME | STANFORD vs TEXAS A&M
Okay, let’s not discuss that I scored an astounding 1 out of 4 in my picks. That goes without saying that this year’s Elite Eight has nothing been short of entertaining and surprising, even if it lacks that quintessential Cinderella story.
So Vandersloot and the Zags fell to Stanford, right? And that Skylar Diggins and the Fighting Irish upset the Tennessee Lady Vols yesterday. This morning, Maya Moore scored her 3000th point in a 35-point rout of the Duke Blue Devils, and Texas A&M’s Sydney Carter pushed her team over Brittney Griner’s 1st-seeded Baylor Bears and that’s with Danielle Adams struggling.
Texas A&M Aggies : 1st Final Four in school history
Stanford Cardinal : 4th straight Final Four
Notre Dame Fighting Irish : 1st time since 2001
Connecticut Huskies : 12th Final Four
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With that said, I’m pulling for a UCONN – STANFORD final.
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The AP All-America Team was released.
FIRST TEAM
Maya Moore (Connecticut)
Brittney Griner (Baylor)
Jeannette Pohlen (Stanford)
Danielle Adams (Texas A&M)
Jantel Lavender (Ohio State)
SECOND TEAM
Danielle Robinson (Oklahoma)
Amber Harris (Xavier)
Courtney Vandersloot (Gonzaga)
Nnemkadi Ogwumike (Stanford)
Jasmine Thomas (Duke)
THIRD TEAM
Shekinna Stricklen (Tennessee)
Shenise Johnson (Miami)
Victoria Dunlap (Kentucky)
Ta’Shia Phillips (Xavier)
Skylar Diggins (Notre Dame)
30 Wednesday Mar 2011
Posted in Japan Stuff, Life Oh Life
1. THE CALM
Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated.
2. THE DIGNITY
Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.
3. THE ABILITY
The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn’t fall.
4. THE GRACE
People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something.
5. THE ORDER
No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding.
6. THE SACRIFICE
Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid?
7. THE TENDERNESS
Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak.
8. THE TRAINING
The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that.
9. THE MEDIA
They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly reporters. Only calm reportage.
10. THE CONSCIENCE
When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly!
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Reposted from the 2.000.000 People To Support Japan Group on Facebook.
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Photo gacked from here.