Coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed in a small plane crash while on a recruiting trip. Budke had been the coach at OSU since 2005 and Serna had worked with him for seven seasons, previously at Louisiana Tech.
The Cowgirls next two games have been cancelled as the school mourns.
Duke freshman phenom point guard Kyrie Irving announced he would leave school and enter the upcoming NBA draft on April 6. And then the Minnesota Timberwolves finished their season with a spectacularly awful record of 17 – 65.
Not five minutes after the last game in the Timberwolves miserable season ended, Kyrie Irving started having very public second thoughts. He has since deleted the tweet you see above, retweeted by CanisHoopus, and preserved forever by a member of the Timberwolves mailing list who happened to be out of the country and not updating his twitter feed regularly.
Now I don’t think I would want to go play in Minnesota either. The weather is cold, the team hasn’t had a respectable season in forever, and did I mention the weather is cold? But he’s going to have to show up in Target Center eventually.
Apparently Kyrie has failed to learn the lesson I have taught many an undergraduate in the 20+ years I have spent employed in higher education: Beware the toes you step on today, as they may be attached to the ass you need to kiss tomorrow. The fans in Minneapolis (all dozen or so of them) will remember, whether he is there in a Timberwolves uniform or not.
ClumberKim has been the ListMOM for the Minnesota Timberwolves mailing list for fifteen years. It’s all Christian Laettner’s fault.
In the hour or so since Virginia Commonwealth University advanced to the Final Four and sent number one seed Kansas home, Shaka Smart probably just broke Google.
Seriously, who’d have thought? But rankings don’t matter when you check out this picture of the VCU bench emptying, just after the final buzzer. That’s some happiness, and a great big exception to the “It’s not how you win or lose” business. Here’s another one:
Talk about winning: VCU is the first team in history to defeat five schools from five different power conferences in the same tournament.
I was sad that the University of Maryland didn’t make the NCAA Tournament (or even the NIT, ahem) this year, but it’s freed me up to watch the action, root against our rivals, and cheat on them in the only acceptable way, which means pulling for underdogs like VCU and Butler.
Or maybe they’re the overdogs? Butler beat Florida, up is down, and Kansas, OSU, and North Carolina are done. ESPN tweeted that out of 5.9 million brackets in their Tournament Challenge, two — TWO! — predicted the Final Four correctly.
I usually don’t wish my days away, but is it next Saturday yet?
[Image: Mike Stone, Reuters]
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