Archive for the 'basketball' Category

Xtra LARGETONY

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Either the world got a little smaller or I grew a little bigger. Well, the blog grew a little bigger, anyway. Yesterday I had a big spike. (Again, the blog I mean. It’s not that unusual for me personally to have a big spike.) I checked to see where all the extra traffic was coming [...]

Blue Memphis

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Peyton Manning was there. So was Priscilla Presley. And Justin Timberlake. Peyton was orange. Priscilla and JT were blue. So was most of Memphis. Especially their basketball team. Saturday night was one of the biggest games in college basketball: #1 University of Memphis vs. #2 University of Tennessee, and in-state rivals to boot. Add to [...]

Hoop Dreams

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Now, hold on. I know what you’re thinking: “This is one of those posts where Tony starts getting a chub about sports.” Don’t worry. I’m not going to go on and on about how Tennessee’s men’s basketball team (which for most of my thirty years has been a disappointment and embarrassment) has come out of [...]