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"Where the hell is Berry College?!?"
Click here for a look at the 09-10 UC Riverside mens’ basketball schedule.
While it looks like the pendulum has swung back slightly, which will hopefully get the Highlanders’ SOS rating below 300, it appears Jim Wooldridge is still easing his squad into the nation’s top tier based on the competition he’s booked. There’s USC, which is legit on anyone’s schedule. But no other PAC10 teams? Really?
I, for one, am in the camp that believes that Wooldridge’s marked softening of UCR’s schedule last year was genius, letting the players get used to what it feels like to win. I figure we’re seeing a continuation of that strategy, which I find hard to fault.
Still, Pub Wisdom reckons there are others who are chomping for UCR to test it’s new-found success on some proven competition. Would’ve been nice to see a surprise or two on the schedule, especially since the USC date was pre-announced. Well, there was one surprise. Where is Berry College and how did they end up on the Highlanders’ schedule? Now that was a surprise, though without researching it at all, it wouldn’t be a surprise if I learned that Berry College is in the midwest somewhere and coached by one of Wooldridge’s buddies.
In the end, it all comes down to conference play, the goal being to reduce the number of games you need to win in the conference tourney to get that auto-bid to the dance.
See you at the Echo Chamber…
Celtic Draws Gunners
Celtic showed mettle getting the job done with two goals on the away leg against Dynamo Moscow after looking somewhat nonplussed on the first leg, like the Bhoys aren’t used to having to scrap their way into the group stages of the Champions League.
This go-round it’s the Light Blues slotted automatically into the group stages, and Celtic’s road, if it wants to join Rangers there, just got a lot sportier now that it’s drawn Arsenal in the playoff. Pub Wisdom wishes the best of luck to the Eastsiders.
Patented Late Kick Extends Brenda Martinez’s European Roll
BMART’s three for three in her quest for European domination. Watch the video of her latest conquest, at the Flander’s Cup, here.
Brenda Martinez Hearts Europe
BMART rolls through Europe.
UC Riverside track phenom Brenda Martinez is two-for-two so far in her six-meet Europe swing, taking the 1500 title in Ghent, Belgium, blowing away her previous PR by four seconds. Click here to check out footage of the race.
Brenda Martinez Works the Europ-a-dopa
Ali-inspired?
After finishing 8th in the NCAAs, UC Riverside’s half-mile miracle, junior Brenda Martinez, took her act to Europe for a six-meet tour of the continent. However, Pub Wisdom reckons Martinez got a hold of some footage shot on a different continent, of the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire, for inspiration prior to her first 800 meter event in Belgium.
Fresh off the plane in the final of her first meet, Martinez employed Ali’s classic rope-a-dope, hanging well back and letting others think they might have a shot, but with perhaps 300 meters left, she straight blew past the field, briefly settled into third, then put on the afterburners for a precisely timed move at the last second that gave her the win and a personal record. The field included the two runners that have claimed the last three NCAA 800 titles. Yep, she’s the real deal.
Watch the race it here. It’s worth the click. She’s got the white singlet on.
The Nation’s Hottest Runner?
Poetry in motion, coconut lotion...
Marry Me, Mixu
Mixu's Hibs: Double the drama.
A week ago, I would’ve probably stuck him with a shiv if I saw him in the street. Today, I’d french kiss him and ask for his hand in marriage, so freely does my adoration flow… I’m talking about my main man Mixu Paatelainen, Hibernian manager and restorer of balance in the universe.
With Rangers just clear of the East Enders after their recent Old Firm win, Mixu’s men held the Light Blues to a 1-1 draw, allowing Celtic to retake tops in the SPL table and delivering a crushing blow to Gers fans who remember last season’s stinging goal-differential disappointment. But just when it seemed all was lost, Mixu’s Hibs flipt da script again, holding the other half of the Old Firm to a goal-less draw on the following matchday, thus catapulting Rangers tidily into the lead once more with one game to go.
And a stern test it will be at Tannadice as Levein’s Dundee United side has had pretty impressive form of late and will itself be stinging after three-nil humiliation at Tynecastle. But Rangers’ form has been tight of late as well, so it should be a fun one.
The Hoops will also have their hands full with visiting Hearts looking to make a statement on the last day of their impressive campaign.
Four in a row? Hell no!
No Keeping Up with this Keeper
Score one -- or ten -- for the keeper.
Missed this gem in the fall, but just found it doing some digging in light of recent events involving current Rangers and former Scotland keeper Allan “The Playa” McGregor. This article spotlight’s one of McGregor’s love interests — one of at least 10 women with whom young Allan was romantically entangled during the previous year – promoting a tell-all sexploitation interview. Wonder if that’s aired yet, and how it went over…
Nice to see opinions softening about the Loch Lomond Liquor Lockdown in general. What a mess.
No Longer Funny
Looks like Ferguson and McGregor are the ones in hot water now after antics from the bench against Iceland. Here’s the story. Banned from the side forever. Bad. Sad.
UCR Baseball Team Knocking On the Door of the Top 25
The helpful folks in the sports information department have put together this useful little roundup of just how much the UCR baseball team is turning heads nationally.
With quality wins over UCLA, Cal, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State, among others, the Highlanders are now in the conversation on many of the polls and rankings. Take a look here.
