The Sports Guy's running diary

[Pflugerville Ag]

Bill Simmons did a running diary all day yesterday while watching basketball with some of his college buddies. Its a long read, but is very funny. I quoted some of his comments about the Aggie game in case you don't want to read the entire thing (even though is comments about our game aren't that good or funny).


1:33: Finally, a good game! Penn cuts the lead to one as CBS is forced to use a stun gun on Gus Johnson.

1:35: Penn takes the lead after a 21-6 run! Lemme tell you something … if Penn pulls this off, Gus is going to sound like the kid who opened the Nintendo 64 Christmas gift in that famous YouTube clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU).

1:44: A&M fights back -- they're up four again. Meanwhile, Gus just told us a story about how Marlon Pompey (A&M's forward) and his mother moved to Canada but had to leave his brother behind because the brother had a mental illness and Canada wouldn't allow him inside its borders … and then, he casually moved back to the game action with no further explanation. I smell another Google moment coming on.

1:46: The highlight of the day, and I swear this happened: Gus just threw it to commercial (A&M up by eight) with a replay of Law driving to the basket by saying, "Aggies always in good shape … when they have the Law on their side. Ha-ha-ha-ha!" That cackle could best be described as "maniacal." I love Gus Johnson.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/NCAA/dayone&sportCat=ncb

[Pflugerville Ag]

He's continuing with day 2 of his running diary. Some hilarious comments so far...

Caleb from Maryland writes, "My best player cries when we are losing. My shooting guard left the game with a black eye. My point guard should have been a college quarterback. My card is American Express."


9:44: We just amused ourselves for the last few minutes re-enacting the following scene at halftime:
--Gumbel (in between bites of a turkey leg): "And Virginia leads Albany, 52 to 21."
--Kellogg: "I thought Seth said Albany was dangerous?"
--Davis: "Oh yeah? How's Stanford looking in Round 2?"
--Kellogg: "Yeah? Why don't you write another article for a magazine that gives their party guests Hepatitis A!"
--Davis: "Why don't you pick one camera to look at when you're talking?"
--Gumbel (chewing): "Come on guys, mmmmmm grrgrgrggg mmmmmmm."



9:51: Raftery calls Memphis "one of the great spurt teams ... they have the ability to just explode from behind." It's like he's deliberately trying to get me fired.


10:41: Our fourth blimp shot of the day. "Good-looking roof," JackO says sarcastically. "Like that design."



11:10: Funniest commercial moment of the day: We see Lance Armstrong jogging and asking something like, "what is the greatest achievement of all?", followed by House quickly blurting, "Doping your blood for eight years without getting caught?" That nearly caused JackO to cough up a lung.


http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/NCAA/daytwo&sportCat=ncb

[Kyle98]

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