BEING MAD IN MARCH IS A GOOD THING - I LOVE COLLEGE BASKETBALL!
I LOVE BASKETBALL
WELL HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE anyway
My love of this game, called basketball may have something to do with the fact that I grew up in
http://www.in.gov/visitindiana/trip_ideas/hysteria.aspx
My father also was my high school’s basketball coach. We were the Golden Eagles.
School colors: maroon and gold. My dad, Coach Hammel, was highly respected for his coaching, as well as for his humanity. Dad was friends with Bobby Knight and as I said n an earlier post, in the summertime my dad had a business where he sanded, finished and painted the logos on the gym floors, around the state, including
“H –H-Ham, M-M-Mel, Hammel, Hammel, Hammel” was one of the cheers. We even had cheer block practice where we sat in the bleachers and practiced cheers and card turning. In junior high, I was cheerleader. That was fun. Really. I always felt kind of special, going to all of the high school basketball games and getting certain privileges being the coach’s daughter. But one of the drawbacks was being the daughter of my father, the basketball coach. He had rules for the boys. And one was that the boys had dating restrictions during basketball season. So, of the bb boys, who in their right mind would go out with the coach’s daughter? None of them. Imagine my surprise when I went off to live on campus in college and I was highly sought after by the males who were highly respected on campus.
Also, there were disadvantages because when the team lost, the house was a “suck-the-life-right-out-of-you place. When we lost to my dad’s alma mater, we didn’t go to church because dad would get ribbed by his uncles mercilessly. The pressures of being the losing team was felt personally through a kind of osmosis.
Anyway, we are in the middle of March Madness right now here in the States. And granted the boys’play gets all the hype and attention and the girls’ play gets relegated to a footnote, even though today the girls can play just as well as any of these boys and they have the moves, the grace ant the skills equal to the shining stars of the boys’ teams. Geez, when I was in high school we had “girls’ basketball rules” – some silly half court play… And girls that I saw play shot the ball with some two-handed grip that looked silly. I always gripped the ball like the boys. Now – that would be no distinction.
Over the years, the shorts have gotten to be baggy knee pants. It’s strange to see the clips of years ago, when the shorts were really shorts. And back then there weren’t the tattoos we so often see scar the beautiful godly skin of these beautiful athletic bodies. But still, these guys are not only beautiful to watch for their art, grace of movement, beauty of their plays and improvisational dance-like moves, but they are also beautiful to look at because the body is a beautiful thing.
Joakim Noah and Taurean Green survive another close call. (AP)
Save your tears boys, you had your chance to win the game. (AP)
This are not my captions, but the ones from the website:
http://sportsline.com/collegebasketball
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2003 NCAA Tourney - Highlights with One Shining Moment
In the beginning, the whole left side is the rolling credits, but WAIT then it goes into full screen and Luther Vandross sings!
See Ioan Gruffudd in the movie Amazing Grace
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As a human rights activist, I bring to your attention the four year old genocide in
Genocide flourishes when there is no accountability.
WE CAN’T SAY THAT WE CARE ABOUT JUSTICE
WHEN WE DO NOTHING TO STOP THE INJUSTICE
THAT SINCE THE HOLOCAUST
HAS BEEN called - GENOCIDE.
We each have a voice.
W each have a presence.
Let us not be silent.
We have been called to be human
in the most basic way
on this subject.
Where there is a will - there is always a way.
And where there is no will - there is no way.
Silence is necessary for genocide to go on.
Our collective silence is a weapon used by the genocidaires. Silence kills.
And we are responsible for our personal silence.
One World.
One humanity.
One Human Race.
One.
• http://www.Savedarfur.org
• http://www.ajws.org/
• www.sudandivestment.org/
• http://www.genocideintervention.net/
• http://www.standnow.org/
Please, consider supporting the movement to abolish slavery and human trafficking in the
and around the world.
It still goes on today, while we go about our lives.
“Not For Sale” videos on the Amazinggracemovie.com website
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/Trailer01.aspx
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PLEASE, sign the petition of Amazing Changes Campaign
http://www.theamazingchange.com/abolish.html
Zach Hunter is a fifteen year old, who wants to put an end to world-wide slavery
Zach’s website:
http://www.myspace.com/amazingchange
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