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Scenes from the Green Line

So, this may be the coolest backyard ever. And I may or may not get sued for some kind of privacy infringement. But I say, if you’re going to set up three basketball hoops and a pop-a-shot in your backyard which immediately faces the T, someone’s bound to take a picture and post in on their blog. It’s just common logic.

Clearly, this is at the Beaconsfield stop on the MBTA D Line, and the backyard lies on the inbound side. You can’t see the pop-a-shot, but it’s hooked up to the middle basket, which has it’s back to the T. When I was passing one day this spring, I saw a kid out there shooting, and he’s not bad, but he needs to grow a little. Unless he’s actually 7. In that case, some big time D-I coach needs to get to his house immediately. Of course, this is just my non-professional recruiting assessment.

Invite me over Beaconsfield backyard people! I’m lots of fun and I want to use your pop-a-shot before it gets too cold! And after that, we can take a trip to Highland Falls and play on the black top court in my backyard. Under the lights. Things get serious in the HF.

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Coach K Shoots Down Russian Attempts to Rewrite Olympic History

Photo courtesy of news.bbc.co.uk

Tomorrow is the 38th anniversary of the day when communists took everything away from Americans in terms of athletic dominance and superiority. That’s right, it’s the anniversary of the ill-fated 1972 USA-USSR Olympic basketball game, where the final seconds were controversially replayed and the outcome was in the Soviet Union’s favor. In my family, we call that a Get-Back Goal, and we stopped letting my cousin Trevor have them when he was five.

Anyway, Coach K, in his position as coach of the USA Basketball team, decided he wasn’t going to let Russia get away with this nonsense, and he rightly called out Russian coach David Blatt after Blatt tried to say that the USSR was the “rightful winner” of those Munich games.

“It’ll be a negative from the way the U.S. looks at it forever, and should be,” said Coach K in an ESPN article today. “And it’ll be in some ways a positive for those who believe in fairy tales.”

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Now the Bromance can Continue

Ok, so this has pretty much been a done deal for months now, but since Northeastern chose to officially announce its basketball coaching staff today, I’m choosing to officially write about it.

Not too many changes to the 2010-2011 coaching roster, except one big one – Pat Duquette, once associate head coach under Al Skinner at Boston College (and interim head coach after Skinner was fired earlier this year), has fatefully rejoined buddy Bill Coen (also of the BC coaching tree, obviously) at NU. Sadly, Duquette is replacing Coach Tom Murphy, one of the greatest guys living on the planet, but Murphy will still be affiliated with the team, in a mentoring/donor-related capacity.

I’m so excited about this I can’t even tell you. I was already planning to become a Husky groupie this year – as they may need me because of a big loss of senior players – but this just solidifies it. And let’s not forget, Steve Scalzi still holds his position of director of basketball operations.

It’s like BC ’06 all over again. Seriously guys – professional head manager, it’s a position that needs to happen…that I need to fill.

Go Northeastern! Lovin’ it.

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