I think a new banner, a fresh domain name and a hard-earned c-note are reason enough to run a celebratory pic of the Universal Magnificently, which I ripped off Jonathan Mannion's site. If you guys could only understand the blood, sweat and tears that went into making this banner through MS-Paint and getting it up on this site, you would understand why I can now look at this site with the same b-boy grin as the mighty Mos Def.
Also that banner wouldn't have the gangsta imagery it does without the help of Tyler Smith.
17:32 Everyone's favorite Serbian misses 2 free throws.
16:47 Marcus gets another 3 to put the Cats up 10-2.
16:06 Radenovic' redeem himself and hits a pair from the line.
14:13 On a break-away Marcus spins to the basket. 14-7, Cat. Marucs has 8 of Zona's 14 points.
Besides budget issues there is no excuse for ASU to not have their names on the back of their jerseys. This is not a storied basketball program. Right now, four out of the five guys on the court for ASU have lame golden undershirts. Lame.
If anyone can find me a picture of any college player from the 90's when frayed shooting sleeves were cool, I will send you a 'Where's P-Mac' prize package.
12:00 Arizona has eight turnovers in the first eight minutes
I try to check how many boards Chase Budinger has and this game is hardly acknowledged by CBS and not on ESPN's scoreboard page. Then I realize the Cats are no longer in the top-25. Dammit.
10:13 First miss of the night for the Cat as Jawann throws up an air ball from 15 feet.
8:36 A Budinger 3 puts the Cats back up 10, 22-12.
4:40 Serge Angounou hits another 3, the announcers say he takes the lead for the Devils. No Gary, the Cats are still up 24-20.
1:31 ASU takes the lead 31-30 and holds it until halftime. I could get into this being the whole reason why I don't love college ball like the NBA, but I don't feel like looking up enough stats to enforce everything.
Halftime: I couldn't find actual stats to back this up, but I'd assume it looked something like offensive boards: UA: 3 ASU: 92
17:50 Nic Wise forgets that he is Nic Wise and clap for Chase after he gets an open dunk
Much respect to Staf for pulling the most 'g' move you can pull in a basketball game* and switching kicks at halftime.
* not including anything Nic Wise has ever done
16:10 Christian Polk throws up a deep three and catches the bottom of the backboard. Beautiful
Jeff Pendergraph is a sophomore forward on a very, very weak ASU squad, yet Radenovic' is doing his best to make him look like one of the premier big men in the nation.
5:40 Radenovic misses a point-blank put back that could have increased the Cats lead from a pathetic three points, 49-46.
4:55 Chase drills a three from the top of the arc, 52-46, Cats.
4:10 Serge Angounou hits a 3 as the shot clock sounds to bring the Devils within 3, 49-52.
3:39 Marcus Williams lobs the ball to Chase, who goes to the 10th floor (c) Tom Leander, to complete the inbound alley-oop.
Cats faithful love giving themselves false-hope for the current season by bringing up all the turmoil of the 1997 championship season, such as the 97 squad losing 4 of their last 7 games. This is along the same kind of bullshit lines as coaches telling high-school freshman, "I'm sorry we have to cut you, but did you know Michael Jordan got cut from his freshman high-school basketball team?" That's great and all, but 99.99999999999999999% of freshmen are not Jordan and the 2006 and 2007 Cats are not the 97 Cats.
:40 Radenovic who is somehow 88% from the FT line misses the front end of an 1 and 1.
2.2 Derek Glasser gets fouled by Marcus on a 3-point attempt as the Devils are down 4, he makes the first two and accidentally makes the third. Nothing can go right for the Devils this season.
1.2 Chase goes to the line, hits a pair, that's the ballgame.
Final 61-58
Nic Wise Moment of the Game: Late in the second half, Chase hits a big three for the Cats, stretching UA's lead back up to over 4. Again no emotion out of Nic. He just sits there, mean muggin' the court. One can only assume it involves Nicthinking knowing he is better than Chase. All I know is that this off-season, Lute and Nic better sit down over a cup of lean and hash things out to a Screw Tape or else Jerryd Bayless better be Jesus fucking Shuttlesworth. -Anthony Tarnowski contributed to this NWMOTG
Sneaker Watch: Staf 1st half black/red Zoom LeBron IV...Staf 2nd half Air Max Penny I...Nobody else had anything new
Más: I was right last time Aaron Brooks was rocking Jordan B'Loyals...Solid take on this game done in a more professional manner...Did I ever mention I love Oregon...R.I.P. Shaun Livingston.
I really didn't plan doing shit with this blog until I could figure out how to get a g'd up banner for the top of the page. But I couldn't sit back and watch Aaron Brooks kill at will and not give the man his respect. Right as I awoke from my Saturday night nap, I wake up to AB cutting through three Huskies then throw in a lay-up over his shoulder, chasing that feat of greatness with a deep three and then I seeTajuan Porter clank a three from about 54 feet. Classic 2007 Oregon basketball. Props to the newest member of the Blazers, ex-duck Freddy Jones being at the game, even more props to the white/green XV's in the pic above.
11:06 Adrian Oliver jinxes the return of 'Where's P-Mac' with a three to put the Huskies up, 65-64.
???? FSN goes clockless and Joevan 'Stay Fresh' Catron goes unconscious, ripping the ball on the defensive end before weaving through defenders and going behind his back before giving the rock up.
Tajuan Porter draws the defender way behind the arc, misses the shot but gets the foul. He hits all 3 FT attempts, 69-65 Ducks.
Father of the year award goes to the man who dressed his son in a black Joey Heisman Ducks jersey and introduced the boy at a young age to The Pit. Best parenting ever.
8:40 AB gets two at the line to put the ducks up six, 71-65.
7:20 Tajuan in transition pulls up for a long 3. No dice.
7:01 Tajuan follows the miss with a behind-the-back pass on the break to Malik Hairston.
5:19 Ducks go up nine, 80-71, after Tajuan connects on a corner three-ball.
FSN flashes a stat that Tajuan is just two 3-Pt FGs away from the Jason Kapono record of 82, I fully expect Tajuan to break that in the next 30 seconds.
4:37 Quincy Pondexter hits crazy lay up while being fouled by Brooks. I'm still real pissed that Quincy is not Cappie's brother, being the big Cappie Pondexter fan that I claim to be. It's noted that Quincy has between 100-150 sneakers, if his chest didn't read 'Washington,' I would respect this man greatly.
They flash the ASU highlight of the fans rushing the court after winning their first game in what was an 0-15 Pac-10 season. I can't even make a joke there, ASU rushed the court for their first Pac-10 win in FUCKING February.
The ducks coast to a victory leading by seven for the final four minutes of the game. 93-85.
Line of the night: Aaron Brooks 30 on 10-14 shooting, 6 boards, 5 dimes, 4 steals and only 2 turnovers.
Tajuan only had six 3-pt attempts?
Nic Wise moment of the Game: I can't even imagine what Nic Wise does on the weekends but it's probably not even acceptable to be published on the Internet.
Sneaker Watch: If the ever was any criticism about Oregon basketball it would have to be their weak kick game with their white jerseys. Generic team edition shoes, you can do better than that. Although I'm pretty sure Aaron Brooks was rocking some white/green Jordan B'Loyals.
Question of the night: My friend Andy calling to ask if you take Brooks or Durant with the No. 1 pick in the draft. No brainer, Brooks.
Today was Senior Day which is basically like when an award show honors Two-and-a-half Men, why the fuck should we honor something that's at best mediocre and usually just sucks. Staf, I won't miss you and Ivan, I'm going to try to make one of those cool Men-in-Black memory eraser devices in an attempt to forget I ever had to watch you. Jerryd Bayless can't put on a Cats uniform soon enough for me. Here are the notes from the final home game of the 2007 season. For the record: the USC notes didn't happen because Antione Cason forced me stop the blogging presses. I apologize.
18:35 UCLA jump ahead 6-0 in a contest where both teams are wearing their away jerseys. Lute can't take it and calls a timeout to confirm Radenovic' is a real human and not just a hologram that players can drive through and rebound over.
Whoever creates the "Zona Screw," the Zona Zoo's flier consisting of analysis and chants for the game, needs to note how I just wrote "their away jerseys." I don't know how you can make it to college and still write, "Arizona looks to swing momentum back to there side on senior day." Come on now.
16:48 Radenovic' misses his first lay-up of the game. I underestimated ol' Ivan, I would have taken the under on him missing a lay-up in the first three minutes of the game.
12:10 Darren Collison buries his second straight 3-pointer to put the Bruins up 23-11.
Wilbur who came out in the game with some retarded, cheap UA shorts found his authentic joints and is now proudly cheering on Zona. He's also sporting a new #7 for the second game in a row.
10:08 Shakur is not disgracing himself on Senior Day. He wets two 3-pointers in a row to bring the Cats within six, 17-23.
8:46 Jordan Hill, who needs a gangsta nickname badly, has an emphatic two-handed dunk to make it 23 all.
6:38 Darren Collison finds Lorenzo Mata for an alley-oop to put UCLA back up seven, 30-23.
Richard Jefferson, Luke Walton and Channing Frye make what I assume to be a little detour to see the Cats play before heading up to Vegas to take part in all the debauchery that is NBA All-Star Weekend. If I were in their shoes, well one, I'd be pissed because Luke wears L.A. Gears, but I'd bring a suitcase full of one million dollars, straight cash homey. Then I would just see how much fun I could have blowing it all in one night. That'd probably make for a sick blog post.
5:33 Staf drives to the paint and does...well what Staf does every fucking time. This time Darren Collison is called for the foul, but the point of the story is that Staf re-injures his right ankle, which has been bothering him for two weeks now.
Enter Nic Wise, who checks into the game sans his cape headband.
The dude behind me is proudly holding a sign that reads, "Tim Hardaway for President." I have no clue why he made this sign, granted it's funny as hell, but germane to absolutely nothing at the game. I would rather have Tim Hardaway as president, not because of the war in Iraq, knocking down the towers, or anything else college kids/Jadakiss loves to hate Bush for, but simply because Hardaway's "killer cross-over" was that sick.
2:48 After doing nothing and looking like a complete G while doing it, Nic is taken out of the game for Daniel Dillon.
1:42 I have no idea why, but Jawann does not check into the game until this point. What the hell is going on Lute.
Marcus Williams gets an open lay-up as the buzzer sounds.
Somehow the Cats are only down one at the half, 35-34.
The greatest halftime event of all time happens when my friend Craig wins a Zona'd-out Vespa. I looked every where on the Internet and couldn't find a picture of it. Picture candy-apple red paint with huge UA logos all over it. And it's a fucking Vespa! I'll get some pictures and post them soon enough.
Things to officially note about Craig:
1. He is a loyal bears fan.
2. He has been to almost every Cats game and has not removed one game-day wristband from his arm. Ever.
3. He skipped our 4:30 English class on Thursday to get in line for the 8:30 USC game.
Feel free to make your own lame caption, that would have still not been funny a few years ago, about this picture of Staf getting his Justin Timberlake on.
As I walk around the McKale Center in my Steve Kerr Chicago Bulls jersey a man selling Eegees icees tells me that he has the same jersey and jokes that I stole his. I actually saw the three-toothed man laying in a campus park while wearing the jersey. I assumed he was a g'd-up bum, although the line between bum and Eegees vendor is very, very gray.
15:16 Josh Shipp sneaks back door and finishes a sick alley-oop from Arron Afflalo. 47-40, UCLA.
13:15 I have no real evidence to back this up but I'm pretty sure Marcus Williams never makes his free-throw attempt on and-1s. It's weird that the leading scorer and a man who is deadly from the elbow cannot hit a free throw. The Cats are within four, 46-50.
7:03 Darren Collison sinks a 3 with a second on the shot clock. 60-50, UCLA.
5:43 With the Cats down 12 Chase hits a three and gets fouled in the act. He hits the free throw, 56-64, UCLA.
3:35 Michael Roll hits another 3 for UCLA as the shot clock expires. Lute goes insane as the Bruins continue to pull away, 61-74.
I hope somebody from Staf's family got a picture of Staf in his final game at McKale as he stood at the line with 2:15 on the clock. It be as godly as Mike's 6.6-second picture, but if I'm from Philly and playing in my last home game, that's a pretty cool pic.
The Cats lose 81-66 and drop to 17-9, 8-7 on the season.
The seniors are honored post game. My friend and I are the only ones booing Radenovic' who finished the game with a stellar 4 points and 3 boards, the final two boards coming in the last 1:30 of the game.
I will give it up to Staf for having a solid game, 17 points, 6 dimes, 4 boards, and only 2 turnovers.
Props to Darren Collison who dropped 17 and had a career-high 15 dimes to go with it.
Nic Wise Moment of the Game: When Chase Budinger hit a huge 3-pointer and was fouled in front of his own bench, everyone hopped off the bench to pick him up and give him a few high-fives. Everyone except Nic Wise. Why the fuck would Nic get off the bench to congratulate him, Nic could have done that himself. Easily. In fact, I'm sure Nic could have done it much better and probably got at least 5 points out of it.
Sneaker Watch: Mustafa Shakur finished his McKale Center career in the black/red Zoom LeBron IV...Ivan Radenovic' failed miserably in some white/red Air Force 25s...JawannMcClellen white/red Air Force 90...Daniel Dillon black/red Air Force 90...Jordan Hill black/Carolina blue Jordan Melo 5.5...Josh Shipp and Russell Westbrook white/royal blue Adidas Gil Zero Mid...Luc Richard Mbah a Moute royal blue Adidas Pro Model S...Marcus Williams wore some the same all-black Nikes that I may never be able to figure out.
Tum-Tum you are the lucky winner of Where's P-Mac's bullshit rap video of the week award. Tell us a little about yourself. Taken and unedited from Tum-Tum's MySpace: "Gd up.one of the realist niggaz out.A 350 nigga tryn 2 put dallas on the map and reps his click 2 the fullest.Tryn 2 tell the worl my point of view and my thoughts u might not like my thoughts but their mine and my opinions and how I feel and I could give a fuck about a rabbit ass rapper gettn mad over my shit."
Gangsta in the sense that he couldn't afford a PR person to make his MySpace so he took his third-grade education and wrote it himself. I'm pretty sure the people over at Ford might be the only ones to disagree with his opinions. Then again I doubt they even know this video exists.
I completely shocked this did not make Chevrolet's Superbowl commercial, which starred the TIP Harris of the hit movie, ATL fame.
Here's Caprice Muzik by Mr. Tum-Tum aka Tumzilla himself:
Bench-pressing was cool when Doughboy was drinking 40-ounces on the front porch. It was still gangsta when Denzel played it crooked and rolled through the jungle. Tum Tum took it to another level by having hoes spot him as he benches. Gangsta, but not nearly the Capo Status that is doing push-ups with a ho on your back.
If a song dedicated to Caprice Classics wasn't ghetto enough, the dominos secured the utter ghetto-ness of this video.
I really hate the director, Mr. Boomtown's decision to shake the video with every drop of the bass. I guess that's why they call him Mr. Boomtown.
Props to the little kid on the corner holding a Godzilla doll in one hand and chunking the duece with the other.
"Beep. Beep. Who got the keys to the Caprice? Neeeruuuummm" If I was Missy Elliott I would break my Lamborgini-television-bed as soon as I heard that.
"One bopper, two bopper, three bopper, four." No comment.
Having every stripper and person from your hood come out to support the video and dance around some Chevys. You gotta respect the originality.
Bullshit rap video scale: Rims: 4.5/5 Bitches: 5/5 Grillin the camera: 4/5 Stacks of money: 0/5 (How you gonna put the D on the map with no scrilla) Cadillacs: 3/5 (GMC makes the Caddy for a reason, step ya game up Tum-Tum) Shots of your projects: 2/5 Guns: 0/5 (All the bench-pressing in the world can't stop a hot one) Drugs: 0/5 Liquor: 0/5 (A little lean coul have helped) Total Score: 18.5/45 (41.1 %)
Still not cracking a 50%, these bullshit rap videos need more guns, drugs and lean. Simple as that. Is it that hard to get a few prop guns, show a little yay and front with a few bottles. Am I asking too much? Come on now bullshit rappers, we deserve better. I'm still not sure what is up with the fade-to-mullet thing Tum is rocking and I'm still too confused to further comment on it.
As always for those of you came here for the chopped-n-screwed version, I got ya.
I believe this is much more important than who killed Kennedy (for the record, if I ever become a rapper I plan on using the moniker of Jack Ruby). It's much bigger than any 9/11 conspiracy theory. This may be the biggest conspiracy of all time. Damn Spike for trying to hide behind the levees when he was at the heart of this the whole time. Johnny Kilroy is my new favorite person of all time.
The man would rather I didn't post it here so you will have to the site to watch it.
I guess Phil Knight and Co. decided to roll with the cover-up, here is the commercial that followed:
Lost in a day featuring the ESPN hyped-up KOBE! versus LEBRON! and on the same day Agent Zero tragically did not live up to his e-words from his blog. Andre Iguodala threw down the greatest I'm-down-22-but-maybe-this'll-catch-Greg-Oden's-attention dunk of all time. My video editing skill are greener than Shrek, so you'll have to wait 10 seconds into the video for the godliness to happen.
This was the first video I have ever put on YouTube. You're welcome world.
I think a new banner, a fresh domain name and a hard-earned c-note are reason enough to run a celebratory pic of the Universal Magnificently, which I ripped off Jonathan Mannion's site. If you guys could only understand the blood, sweat and tears that went into making this banner through MS-Paint and getting it up on this site, you would understand why I can now look at this site with the same b-boy grin as the mighty Mos Def.
