I’m sure everyone knows this, but I thought I’d write a little post about it anyway. The big story in college sports this week is………….
the Ole Miss Men’s tennis team clinched its 7th straight SEC West title this past weekend. In fact, since the SEC went to split divisions of West and East in tennis in 2002, no team other than Ole Miss has won the West. This upcoming Saturday they finish the regular season against Mississippi State, who Ole Miss has beaten 20 times in a row. (Oh Lord, please don’t let Ole Miss lose this weekend now that I’ve written that.)
Oh, in case you missed it, what with all the hubbub about the Ole Miss men’s tennis team, Kansas won the national championship in men’s basketball in overtime. KU is now placing orders for wood to build a trophy case because there’s not a damn tree in the whole state.
i live in kansas, and i do believe we have a nice abundance of trees here.
kiwiwriter – I have family in Kansas, and have driven across it about 3 times, so I try to get a dig in about every 4th post. Please don’t take it personally — and are you hording the trees because I couldn’t find one.
Congratz to Ole Miss tennis team! Yea KS Jayhawks! Go KS trees!
Trees and KS Jayhaks (wha? who) are more interesting. B, I think this makes your post suffer. Go REBS on tennis, but really, do we need all those statistics, much less every day updates?
Ashley, I apologize for having to weigh in on Kansas too but I’ve been through it many times. I too have found it to be a large field. I did see some trees though. That’s how you could tell where the houses were in the big field. The term abundance did not come to mind though when examing the two or three trees I saw. Now corn?? That’s a different story.
Trees and KS JayhaWks are more interesting. And I like everyday updates. Good job!
see: http://www.virginiasports.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=10610&DB_OEM_ID=17800
– for the best college tennis team in the country.
Baseball sucks, and baseball makes ESPN Sports Center suck, but the Yankees are the Greatest Team of all time.
Sorry about your power outage. It caused a signifigant gap in your blog postings. Therefore, we all suffered.
SBG–I knew sooner or later some hater would come on here talking smack while hiding behind a computer screen. I know who you are, my friend. By the way, how long did it take you to find out who is ranked No. 1 in men’s tennis? As I recall, your forehand swinging motion is not unlike that of a cow’s teat in a windstorm (in Kansas b/c they have no trees).
While I hate baseball, my childhood favorite teams were the Phillies and the Boston Red Sox. I seem to remember the BoSox slapping the Yankees around in the recent past. Unfortunately, they only play each other 47 times this year, so we’ll never truly know who is the better team this season.
As for my blog postings, no one reads them anyway. The Ricky Peden page steals all my thunder. My brilliant postings about the origin of cheerleading, cows, and the return of New Kids on the Block go unnoticed thanks to Ricky Peden. Damn you, Ricky! Damn you.
Congrats to the Rebels tennis team! They don’t receive the props they deserve. Formal rebel tennis players have been fanning out across the southeast for years teaching tennis in charming central european accents while looking cool and taking to all the good looking girls and wives at the clubs they work at. This is especially appreciated on NFL Sunday. Keep up the good work!
That’s too funny. They’re just living the dream. I once aspired to all that, until someone told me that coming from Greenwood was not as exotic as central Europe — that and I sucked at tennis, and I had no demonstrable ability to pick up women.
By the by, UM players predominately come from northern Europe. We own Sweden.
With as much honesty and emotion as an MSU alum can muster….hurray Ole Miss. (I just puked a little.)
I realize MSU alumni can’t muster much honesty (Hellloooooo, what about Dickie Scruggs? Shut up other half of my brain.) so I appreciate the effort and I’ll let the boys know you gave them a hooray. Sorry that you puked. I would think MSU people would be conditioned by now to cope with UM’s complete dominance of the tennis world. Today, they’re going for #21 in a row over MSU. Yawn. It should be a good match. Yawn.
Alrighty Rebel boy, you asked for it. All them uppity-like rich Eurotrash folks prancin’ around smackin’ tiny fuzzy yellow balls with dead cat parts. We don’t care about tennis because we prefer bigger balls. I retract my hooray, smartypants!
I would reply but I’m too snobby.
Well, make it 21 in a row. Ole Miss moved all their players up a slot and still won. I’m so glad that men’s tennis has replaced football and basketball as the sport that everybody cares about. Andy made an ass of himself by calling one of our players a “whiny bitch” so loud that I think the player heard him — and starting whining about it. I can’t take him anywhere.