And a special thanks to those of you who have given of yourself in service to our country. And a prayer for all those who made the ultimate sacrifice. God bless you all! I'm watching the Memorial Day program from the Washington Mall on PBS. It was so great to see the special tribute to the Vietnam Vets. I'm from that generation. It was so awful how reviled and hated they were when they came home. It was because Vietnam was the first TV war but it was so unfair to them to be treated that way!

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one more game - if the player is playing ...

Stud...

33 points on 10/20 shooting, 4/9 from 3, 9/9 from the line.

http://www.d1circuit.com/game/show/13280388?subseason=282324

Also saw a tweet saying that a well-respected high-school coach called Lykes "mugsy bogues but a better shooter"

If we don't get this kid we might really regret it.

I received the color booklet that the university sent out commemorating the National Championship. Even though it only a few pages, it is well done with lots of photos and information.

enjoy ...
https://villanova.n.rivals.com/news/more-eybl-hotlanta-action

enjoy:
https://villanova.n.rivals.com/news/sunday-night-at-eybl-atl

should have coverage of four more games for you tomorrow - not sure when the article will make it up.

I finally posted this online. Video of the team's speech at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Houston.

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no, not the lottery prize, the new show on Showtime. The premier episode was very enjoyable. Damien Lewis vs Paul Giamatti. Good stuff.

How do you think the conversation with Calipari went after Lee realized he wasn't getting drafted?
Kid is a semester away from graduating but thinks it's best for him and his family to transfer closer to home. If I were the parents I would want my kid to stick it out for 4 months and graduate. Cal always does what's best for his players so I'm just surprised that he wouldn't counsel the kid to stay. The kid was probably trouble and he didn't want Lee to affect and negatively impact his freshman.

...scholarship players isn't it almost a necessity that someone redshirt?....

Heading up to Philly area (Aston actually) for hockey for my oldest boy this weekend. Tourney schedule blows so that boys don't play first game until 9 pm Sat. night. So a bunch of us got tickets to the Lax Final Four games at the Linc, games 12:00 noon and 2:30. We're coming up from DC area Saturday morning'ish and don't especially care when we get to the games, maybe see some of 2nd half of first, most of 2nd game, something like that.

But I want to get good cheesesteaks first. I know Tony Luke's is closest, and I like Tony Luke's. But I've always loved Jim's on South and want to take my son there. I guess a logistics question. Do I park at the stadium and get a taxi/uber to South Street and back? Or do I do what I'm inclined to which is drive and park somewhere around South Street and then drive back to stadium and park? If it matters, I'll have an SUV loaded with stuff and while you'd have to be a friggin nose-dead idiot to steal hockey gear, losing it would wreck our weekend and cost me a couple grand. I'm not a ninny. I drive to and park in the city every day, just trying not to be a fool, so appreciate any advice.

just fired their coach Art Briles, and rumor is they will fire Ken Starr, their President. history of covering up and not disciplining players who had issues of violence especially against women. this includes Oakman. they hired Pepper Hamilton to do the investigation and it was bad. they had police sit on reports, no one ever got suspended, etc etc

Sorry for the uplifting Friday off topic post. Unfortunately cancer related posts arent too uncommon here. Everyone always has great input though so thought I'd put it out there.

My Dad found out he has kidney cancer yesterday. He lives in FL between Tampa and Sarasota and plans to be treated at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. Don't have a ton of info yet, but they believe it to be large enough that the kidney will need to come out. Still waiting on detailed biopsy results which we won't get for 9 days, and then will talk to the specialist at Moffitt after that which isn't scheduled yet. Blood results otherwise look good so no indication yet that it has spread, but don't know for sure yet, hopefully it's all in the kidney.

Anyway, don't have any direct questions really yet and a lot is unknown on the exact diagnosis, but thought i'd throw it out there if anyone had feedback on Moffitt (the doctor he should be getting is Mayer Fishman), or things to know ahead of time.

Here goes:
https://villanova.n.rivals.com/news/saturday-am-at-eybl-atlanta

check in saturday through monday for plenty of updates from EYBL Atlanta. I will be down there covering the event and should be able to catch about 15 games featuring the vast majority of players the Cats are recruiting for 2017

BIG DA DA ........LED TEAM FINAL TO VICTORY OVER A GOOD AAU SQUAD FROM STATE OF ALABAMA......TODAY IN THE EYBL

..DAHMIR IS.ONE OF THE MOST UNDRERATTED PLAYERS IN THE NATION.AND HE ...SHOULD SKY ROCKET IN THE END OF SUMMER PLAYER RANKINGS.........OR THEIR SHOULD BE AN INVESTIGATION BY CONGRESS.........DA DA MADE NINE OUT OF THIRTEEN FIELD GOALS....HE HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST EFFENCIENCY RATINGS IN THE ENTIRE EYBL.........LONNIE WALKER....14POINTS......

This may have been posted before but you must get the championship issue. Love ochefu telling arch after the Kansas game this is forward u. Arch response ok guard and forward u

Any of you jabronis play guitar?

I played as a kid, but sucked. Last year I picked up a 60th Anniversary American Standard Strat and a 2006 Les Paul Standard from a coworker for $1,800 all in. I love both of them. Slowly trying to become a better player, but it ain't easy.

Anyone here play? If so, what have you got?

...have mercy...

Any info about if he's been invited to tryout for any NBA teams? I haven't seen anything about him since he did the sportscast for the local CBS Philly affiliate.

Nike.com has the Villanova white national champions locker room t-shirt, championship hat and built on banners t-shirt on sale at 50% off. All are $14.97 a piece.

RobN

Lots of College Hoops Podcasts out this week with the NBA draft decisions. All the usuals that I listen to are out in the last couple of days. Two things

1. On the Gary Parrish podcast, they mention that Doug Gottlieb is on the "anti-nova" top 5 kick given how important Daniel and Ryan are. I have no problem with that logic, but funny that it's Gottlieb apparently on the anti-nova kick again (that being said, I haven't read that or heard that from him)

2. Anyone get the sense that Andy Katz and Seth Greenberg hate each other? During their podcasts there are always one or two awkward exchanges between the two of them

For those that ordered, I sent an email this morning with final pricing / design. Please check your email and confirm you're still good to go.

Thanks

It's 9:00 p.m. here in Saigon. I'll take some questions that stop this "alt" nonsense.

Ghost town around here....

Unless all the threads are being started by people I have on ignore.