Newsstand: Fishing edition (Soft Pretzel Logic)

Newsstand: Fishing edition

Not much going locally, so time to crack open the good old RSS reader for some interesting stories nationwide...

The University of Iowa has bought a bunch of domain names critical of their coaches, like firekirkferentz.com. Not that he's in any trouble, but it's an interesting tactic.

If you think you're superstitious, check out these tales of Thad Matta and John Thompson III.

The Kansas basketball team is more than happy to rack up frequent-flyer miles this week.

Ken Pomeroy asks if you really know Texas A&M. Maybe you do, maybe you don't.

Speaking of JTIII, the Georgetown coach bought Egg McMuffins for the Hoyas student fans camping out for East Regional tickets earlier this week.

Raleigh News and Observer columnist Caulton Tudor writes that Georgetown's potential Elite Eight opponent, North Carolina, has "the dignity of ACC men's basketball" on its shoulders in the wake of the conference's poor performance in the NCAA Tournament thus far.

But the women are doing pretty well, including Duke's win over Temple yesterday.

Clemson is giving out 1,200 free tickets to tonight's NIT game against Syracuse. But you have to be 12 or younger to get them.

In the St. Joe's student paper, dueling columns on whether the Hawks' adoption of Boston College's football team is a good thing or not.

And Princeton basketball coach Joe Scott has stepped down to take over at the University of Denver. I have a suspicion that quite a few people in Old Nassau don't mind.

Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald on March 21, 2007 2:31 PM | Permalink

Comments (1)

Mitchell Rosenzweig:

A few thoughts

1) I find the SJU "adoption" of the BC football team to be quite silly. It is basically force-feeding something down the neck of the students and the alums. Trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. SJU folks should be able to root for (and against for that matter) any team that they want. A student from BelAir, Maryland may be a fan of the Terrapins. Whereas another from Scranton, PA may be a supporter of Penn State. Just silly and there is no real "synergy" there

2) Joe Scott: Any buzz as to his replacement? One rumor I saw had Duke assistant Steve Wojo as a front-runner. What are you hearing?

3) Wake Forest: Any updates on the Prosser rumor?

4) Michigan: Any updates on this job? Ernie Kent's name has been tossed around but he is somewhat busy these days. Another potential hire would be the Wright State guy. What about Lickliter? Would be an upgrade for each.

Posted by Mitchell Rosenzweig | March 21, 2007 3:46 PM

Posted on March 21, 2007 15:46

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