By Mel Greenberg
PHILADELPHIA _ Given that the Guru was jokingly, we hope, cited as a one-Guru search committee by Temple athletic director Bill Bradshaw on Tuesday in the front of his introductory remarks presenting former UConn assistant Tonya Cardoza as the Owls' new women's basketball coach, it's time to return to such summer items as the WNBA and other routine events.
Part of that includes answering the question, "Do you ever go away?"
Sort of. The Guru will be hanging out for the first time in years the next four days on Cape Cod (Mon.-Thurs.), headquartered in Hyannis at a very responsible rate adacent to the docks of the island ferries.
But all communication tools and multi-media entertainment materials will, as always, be along for the trip.
And the news watch never stops, which reminds, the Guru hears Cardoza has quickly asembled her staff, but he has had no direct contact with Temple sources since the press conference.
We'll check on it later in the day.
Meanwhile, although many of the names to come in the next several paragraphs will pain our colleague Kate Fagan, who is down in Washington Sunday at the Mystics game chasing after the WNBA's Becky Hammon for a story, it was a regular family affair Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, for the wedding of former Wildcats star Courtney Mix to Ray Davis, the brother of Mix's former teammate Katie Davis.
Perhaps, as the Guru remembers this bunch, especially at a neighorhood establishment after Villanova coach Harry Perretta's 30th anniversary salute dinner, the Mix-Davis reception was appropriately held at the Toledo Zoo following the ceremony at St. Patrick's Church.
The Guru had a media representative on the scene and notes the reason many of the names will cause Fagan to wince is they were responsible for her collegiate career-ending loss at Colorado by Villanova in the Sweet 16 in the fabled year of 2003.
As for the details: Mix is a daughter of Steve Mix, the former 76ers broadcaster and NBA player who once coached the Toledo women's team.
The wedding party included former Wildcats teammates Mary Beth Snell, (La Salle assistant) Mimi Riley, Courtney Roantree, Betsy McManus, and Katie Davis.
Sister and former Drexel star Stephanie Mix was the matron of honor.
Other former players making the trip to the near-Midwest were Trish Juhline, Kelly Nash, who is also about to get hitched this month, Stephanie Baker, Kate Dessart Magar and Jen Hilgenberg.
Needlessly to say, with all those three-point shooters in attendance, the group had little difficulty tossing rice at the newlyweds from long distance after the ceremony. And since Juhline is working on her nursing degree, or may have already attained it from her alma mater, there might have been little hesitancy for a pickup game over the weekend, given the nearby presence of the MVP of the 2003 Big East championship.
UConn readership hear will painfully remember Villanova that year, also, but also have the fond recollection of redemption several weeks later with another NCAA title.
The Guru still has a shift of work ahead Sunday night before the darkness jaunt up North, so we'll be back later in the day.
-- Mel
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