Cal’s Gutierrez Worries About Family in Bloody Chihuahua

rtmsf — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:48:13 +0000

It’s no revelation to say that basketball is a city game. More specifically, it’s an inner-city game. And inner-city has essentially become code for urban decline, crime and unsavories — a more politically correct way of saying a place that a dude doesn’t want to find himself walking through late at night. So basketball and hard-knock stories overcoming them are almost cliche at this point in our history — few high-level D1 players come from environments that anyone would describe as safe, and even fewer were raised in wealthy enclaves. These days, it’s more surprising to hear about someone like Notre Dame’s Ben Hansbrough and his millionaire [...]

A College Basketball Fan’s Guide To Watching The World Cup

jstevrtc — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:36:27 +0000

In less than 48 hours, our televisions will be taken over by the biggest sporting event the world has to offer. Your TweetDeck (or whatever Twitter application you use) will be lousy with friends, celebrities, and sportswriters tweeting about it. Your Facebook friends will be centering their status updates about it. And, for the next five weeks, when you walk into your favorite sports bars, as you peer at the flat-screens you’ll notice an increased presence of a game to which you might not be accustomed.

It’s World Cup time.

Like the Olympics and the Fields [...]

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Cal’s Gutierrez Worries About Family in Bloody Chihuahua

A College Basketball Fan’s Guide To Watching The World Cup