Star UConn Husky player Shabazz Napier may have given Husky fans here at the UW something to discuss besides a basketball victory. Following the Huskies’ NCAA win of BOTH the male and the females championships, these Huskies (from UConn) are airing the dirty underside of the life of the stu[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Athletics’
April 9th, 2014 - 9:26 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
UConn Moves Academic Programs from Provost to Athletic Director!
April 7th, 2014 - 4:26 pm § in Misc.
Husky Basketball WINS! Point Guard Speaks Out For Union As Team Wins NCAA Championship
Star Point Guard, Gets Award As Outstanding Player, Needs Food Shabazz Napier, point guard for the national Div. 1 Husky basketball champs and the outstanding player in Monday’s final game, recently told reporters he understands why student athletes need a union: Napier told reporters th[...]
January 12th, 2014 - 3:03 pm § in Misc., The Ave Scene
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The #7 Best Run City Better Win The Superbowl!
Seattle was also the only city above 500,000 population on the list. Heck, the list did not even include Boeing on the stars of our local economy or mention the awesome seafood here! Also we are the only city on the list in the NFL playoffs and will host the San Fran team for the […][...]
December 4th, 2013 - 4:59 pm § in The Ave Scene
Hypocrisy: Highest Paid Washington State Employee Abandons His Job To Move to Southern Californaia
So this is the house that Coach Sarkisen built? Now he has abandoned his children and left for richer envrions? Coach Sarkisian: “People don’t understand it, but this is my dream job,” Andrew Villeneuve’s ‘s bitter comments below leave out the quarter billion dollars R[...]
November 27th, 2013 - 1:15 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Should College Atheletics Teams Have Enemies Lists?
The Tacoma News Tribune Reports That the head of WSU’s Athletic Department Maintains an Enemy’s List The nastiest messages irked him, and so some of those emails, records show, were forwarded by Moos to an assistant athletic director, along with a brief instruction: The names of the most[...]
November 19th, 2013 - 9:26 am § in Schools & Colleges
Washington State’s Version of a Sumo Wrestler
FOX reports: WA state has a 400# running back, Tony Picard,is a senior nose guard at for the White Swan school on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington state, who stands 6-foot-4 and weighs 400 pounds. Picard says it is “his dream” to play college football, Has anyone looked at [...]
July 3rd, 2013 - 9:54 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
White Men Can Jump
To often we accept the idea that people, more specifically African Americans are born with natural athletic abilities. I myself have heard this on many occasions, at one point possibly believed it to be true sad to say. I’ve heard theories that African Americans are athletically superior as a resu[...]
March 18th, 2013 - 12:27 pm § in America
Send Everyone to College!
I just received this from the Daily Kos and think it may interest those on this list. Apparently Democratic candidate for Governor of Arkansas, Bill Haller wants to give every high school graduate the equivalent of an athletic scholarship. To me, Bill Halter’s proposal has good news and ba[...]
January 11th, 2013 - 10:29 am § in Misc.
Seahawks go to SUPERBOWL … Nate Silver predicts!
As of Friday, the odds are 8:1 AGAINST the Seahawks going to the SUPERBOWL! If Paul Allen’s Seahawks win the Superbowl will this stimulate Steve Balmer to go all the way and buy the UW Huskies? CLICKME to get current odds. [...]
Michael Jordan: Always been part of the problem and never cared about the solution.
Michael Jordan could do no wrong in my eyes growing up. I remember wanting a pair of his coveted shoes growing up but my family was more concerned with feeding my 3 siblings and Ik properly, rather than making sure we had the most expensive pair of shoes like m. Most families in the [&h[...]