MAAC Tournament Notebook MAAC Madness Just how whack was the MAAC? Quite whack, if do say so myself. Let’s just put it this way…a 7th seed with a 16-18 record beat a 4th seed for the conference crown. Start up the Apocalypse machine. Yes, Siena became the first MAAC team […]
Author: Adam Shandler
Notes on Army-Navy
The Safest (If Not Silliest) Game of the Week by Adam Shandler My friends and I had a pleasant drive up the Palisades Parkway to West Point. We were cruising – no flying – until we got to the first checkpoint. We encountered our first stoppage. “DoD stickered cars to […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook Donald Rumsfeld should have a clandestine meeting with Yale coach James Jones. Not that Jones should be leading a black ops team into Kandahar, but his Elis have somehow, someway, climbed into first place in the Ivy League, vitrually unnoticed. Impossible, you say? Go ‘head, check out […]
Metro Atlantic Notebook
Metro-Atlantic Notebook Man-hurt-an What happened to the Jaspers? The team from Riverdale was 6-2 in the MAAC and in first place. Now, after losses to Canisius (Feb. 8) and Niagara (Feb. 10), Manhattan is tied for second in the conference with the Purple Eagles. Normally one of the more prolific […]
Patriot League Notebook
Patriot League Notebook If It’s Not Patrick Doctor, Than Who? Yes, believe it or not, a player from American U. other than Patrick Doctor was named Patriot League Player of the Week. Junior guard Glenn Stokes had 22 points and 6 steals against Navy and upstaged everyone (including the national […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook Your Big 5 Champion is . . .Penn? With all the basketball powerhouses in Philly, it’s hard to believe that the Penn Quakers are the Big 5 Champ. You can look it up, but Fran Dunphy’s team bested LaSalle, Villanova, Temple, Drexel (unofficial member of the Fivesome) […]
Colonized!
Colonized! The Four New CAA Teams. by Adam Shandler Remember the later years of Diff’rent Strokes when Arnold and Willis got an adopted brother Sammy? He was the annoying, snot-nosed son of Mr. Drummond’s love interest (played one year by Dixie Carter, and the second season by Mary Ann Mobley. […]
Colonial Notebook
Colonial Notebook Ten ‘Wild and Crazy’ Teams It’s the stuff of Steve Martin-Dan Akroyd Saturday Night Live skits – which is what the CAA has become this year. At this point, the league champ is anybody’s guess, especially when teams like Towson (1-5) beat conference contenders Delaware and Drexel, then […]
Patriot League Notebook
Patriot League Notebook The American Way Here’s a plan for all you losing programs out there. Switch your conference affiliation – preferably to one that has competition you can beat. After getting smacked around in the Colonial for years (they finished 7-20 last season), the American Eagles find themselves atop […]
The Quickening
Marist-Manhattan II: Out-Foxed? Not again. by Adam Shandler On January 22nd, it was Bobby Gonzalez bobble-head doll night at Manhattan’s Draddy Gymnasium. But Coach Gonzalez and his Jaspers almost bobbled another one to Marist in the re-match of a game played on January 12th. Marist took the first contest, 58-56, […]
