The LSU men's basketball team was blessed for over 2 decades to have Dale Brown as their coach. Always cutting edge, often controversial, and one of the best advocators and motivators anywhere, Dale Brown routinely made the impossible happen right before your eyes.
Brown's first Final 4 appearance in 1981 was of course cut short by Isiah Thomas and the Indiana Hoosiers.
Going into the consolation game that same week against Ralph Sampson and the Virginia Cavaliers, Brown had to come to the rescue of his star player Durand "Rudy" Macklin.
It was Brown's dedication to doing the right thing that made him far more than just your average, run-of-the-mill basketball coach.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
The New Orleans Jazz
Now that football season is over for us Saints fans, I'm going to open the blog up to all sports.
As a kid on the West Bank during the late '70's, I didn't have to look any further than "Pistol" Pete Maravich playing for the New Orleans Jazz for some basketball inspiration. He was a local legend from LSU and even though he wasn't an actual coon ass, his personality and fashion quirks fit right in.
The Jazz were pretty much horrible, having invested far too much of their future in order to bring Maravich over from the Atlanta Hawks. But with the addition of Leonard "Truck" Robinson in 1977, we at least started to think that the Jazz could possibly do some damage as a legit NBA franchise. Unfortunately, before that could happen in New Orleans, the Jazz packed their bags and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Here are some classic clips from the Pistol's albeit brief stay in New Orleans...
As a kid on the West Bank during the late '70's, I didn't have to look any further than "Pistol" Pete Maravich playing for the New Orleans Jazz for some basketball inspiration. He was a local legend from LSU and even though he wasn't an actual coon ass, his personality and fashion quirks fit right in.
The Jazz were pretty much horrible, having invested far too much of their future in order to bring Maravich over from the Atlanta Hawks. But with the addition of Leonard "Truck" Robinson in 1977, we at least started to think that the Jazz could possibly do some damage as a legit NBA franchise. Unfortunately, before that could happen in New Orleans, the Jazz packed their bags and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Here are some classic clips from the Pistol's albeit brief stay in New Orleans...
Friday, January 21, 2011
Cha Ching and Thangs' All-Time Saints Team
QB Drew Brees:
RB Deuce McAllister:
RB Dalton Hilliard:
WR Joe Horn:
WR Eric Martin:
WR Marques Colston:
TE Hoby Brenner:
T Willie Roaf:
T Stan Brock:
G Jim Dombrowski:
G Jahri Evans:
C Jerry Fontenot:
K Morten Andersen:
DE Wayne Martin:
DE Joe Johnson:
DT La'Roi Glover:
DT Jim Wilks:
LB Rickey Jackson:
LB Pat Swilling:
LB Sam Mills:
LB Vaughan Johnson:
CB Dave Waymer:
CB Johnnie Poe:
SS Sammy Knight:
FS Tommy Myers:
P Tommy Barnhardt:
KR Michael Lewis:
RB Deuce McAllister:
RB Dalton Hilliard:
WR Joe Horn:
WR Eric Martin:
WR Marques Colston:
TE Hoby Brenner:
T Willie Roaf:
T Stan Brock:
G Jim Dombrowski:
G Jahri Evans:
C Jerry Fontenot:
K Morten Andersen:
DE Wayne Martin:
DE Joe Johnson:
DT La'Roi Glover:
DT Jim Wilks:
LB Rickey Jackson:
LB Pat Swilling:
LB Sam Mills:
LB Vaughan Johnson:
CB Dave Waymer:
CB Johnnie Poe:
SS Sammy Knight:
FS Tommy Myers:
P Tommy Barnhardt:
KR Michael Lewis:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
2010-11 NFL Season Wrap-Up
I'm not sure who got it worse, Tracy Porter being thrown to the turf by Marshawn Lynch or me posting up all of these awful picks over the course of the season? Through 15 weeks, my record for the year ended at 34-44. Had someone been smart enough to fade all of my picks, they would have done quite well for themselves.
So now I know exactly how difficult it is to beat Vegas in this ish...lesson learned. And during the off-season, I'm going to try to figure out how I had been going so wrong, so that next year I can hopefully try it all out again with at least some level of success.
As for the Saints, at least we won the Super Bowl last year. Because if I only had this season to look at, I'd be depressed and then some. Never realized how hard a task it is to keep running backs healthy in the NFL. And at this point, we're not sure which of Pierre Thomas, Reggie Bush, Chris Ivory, Julius Jones, and/or Lynell Hamilton will return. And just when I really thought our defense was positioning itself as one of the best in the league, Pete Carroll's bunch made them all too easily look like chopped liver.
Saints' Best Plays from the Latter Part of the Season:
Saints' Worst Plays from the Latter Part of the Season:
So now I know exactly how difficult it is to beat Vegas in this ish...lesson learned. And during the off-season, I'm going to try to figure out how I had been going so wrong, so that next year I can hopefully try it all out again with at least some level of success.
As for the Saints, at least we won the Super Bowl last year. Because if I only had this season to look at, I'd be depressed and then some. Never realized how hard a task it is to keep running backs healthy in the NFL. And at this point, we're not sure which of Pierre Thomas, Reggie Bush, Chris Ivory, Julius Jones, and/or Lynell Hamilton will return. And just when I really thought our defense was positioning itself as one of the best in the league, Pete Carroll's bunch made them all too easily look like chopped liver.
Saints' Best Plays from the Latter Part of the Season:
Saints' Worst Plays from the Latter Part of the Season:
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