by John Walters
Durant was dominant with 39 points and this blocked shot
Durant’s Domain
Golden State used a 37-11 second quarter to take a 25-point lead into halftime versus the Thunder, then West Coasted home for a 122-96 victory. Kevin Durant wins the first battle between his present and former teams. Russ had 20. It was OKC’s first loss, while the Dubs have won 4 in a row following that season-opening embarrassment versus SAS.
2. Isn’t This How Facebook Started?
In true Puritan style, they wear a “Crimson letter” at each game (“Heathen?”)
Chauvinistic and craven Harvard males rating Crimson coeds on their looks? A dozen or so years earlier, this is how Facebook began. Now, it’s gotten the men’s soccer team’s season canceled as punishment.
For those of you college soccer-addled freaks, the Crimson were 10-3-2 overall, 4-0-1 in the Ivy League, and riding a 6-match win streak when the hammer fell.
3. An Oliver Twist*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OSTOFlM6fM
*The judges will grudgingly accept “Boulder Dash,” but it’s a hed the judges used for a story about CU football back in 1994, too, so….
Colorado gets past UCLA, 20-10, in Boulder when Isaiah Oliver took a punt 68 yards to the cabin with less than five minutes left. This game also featured UCLA running back Soso Jamabo and CU wideout Bryce Bobo. “Soso, Bobo. Bobo, Soso.”
4. Shelter from the ‘Storm’
Had the opportunity to see Aussie lyricist/pianist/comic Tim Minchin at the New York Comedy Festival last night. Brilliant dude, and last night as a second encore he had every last light turned down and did a spot-on rendition of “Hallelujah” (while apologizing for being the latest singer to cover the song).
Minchin veered away from discussing our election for all but about 30 seconds, where he relented and said the following: “If the FACT of him doesn’t bother you, my talking about the fact of him isn’t going to change anything.”
Anyway, here’s a bit he does that sort of shows off his genius for word play and genius in general. Up top is live, and down below here is the animated version.
5. Meanwhile in Bleaksville…
Does it feel a little like everyone has done that “I’ve come to Flyover Country To Understand Why Trump Voters Are So Angry” piece? Well, Benjamin Hart thought so, too. This is funny stuff.
“I wanted to hear more, but he explained that David Brooks had scheduled an interview with him to discuss whether he ate dinner with his family every night, and what it means for America.” Ha ha…
And there’s a team in the Eastern Conference that is 5-0. 🙂
BTW, did you read that latest KD interview, about how he & Westbrook are still “BROTHERS” despite “what anybody says”? (And apparently, the media is perpetrating some kind of conspiracy to concoct this made-up feud between the two…uh, WHAT?) Where he SORT of admits his lame text-message to RW that he was cutting & running to the Warriors was “wrong” but that he never addresses that he’s had 5 MONTHS to pick up the damn phone let alone go see his “brother” in person to talk it out? Between this & all the pot-shots he’s taken on RW & the Thunder these last months, my opinion of KD continues to plummet. No matter how many damn points he puts up. On the other hand, it’s kinda fun to watch & read about ‘The Real Hard Court Men of the NBA’. Who needs Housewives for “reality” dysfunction? 😉
Dear idiot Harvard soccer players: wrong school, wrong sport. You should have been a football player at Baylor – your team would still be playing.