In 2019 ek hornbeck wrote this: I assure you I have something incredibly trenchant and profound to say about the state of Women’s Basketball, but I’m already at least 40 hours into this project out of the last 72 or so and I’m afraid my brain is totally fried. Fortunately most of the heavy …
Tag: sports
Mar 20 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 2 – Evening
The UConn men are up tonight along with my very favorite team, Gonzaga. Yes, I know I’m an East coast gal who graduated from some highly rated East coast universities, NYU being one of them, and Gonzaga is a Jesuit run institution named after Jesuit saint Aloysius Gonzaga and I’m not Catholic, not even close. …
Mar 20 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 2 – Afternoon
By the end of the day half the teams that started on Thursday will be headed home, half will be moving on to the next round. There were a few upsets as teams seeded higher beat the expected winner: ek hornbeck would have been happy, #11 Syracuse literally wiped the court with #6 San Diego …
Mar 19 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Round of 64 Day 1 – Evening
Tonight’s games include one of ek hornbeck‘s favorite teams, Syracuse, since he went to college there. It’s kind of one of mine, too, because I was born there. My family left when I was an infant and I’ve only been back when I drove through on my way to Canada. Time Network Seed School …
Mar 19 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2019: Round of 64 Day 1 – Afternoon
Last night the Play-ins for the East and West Divisions that will start tomorrow finished with a couple of tight games and one that went to OT. West #16 Norfolk State (16 – 7) 54 – Appalachian State (17 – 12) 53 #11 Witchita State (16 – 5} 52 – #11 Drake ((25 – 4) …
Mar 18 2021
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2021: Play Ins Day 1
It’s been two years since the NCAA held its Basketball Tournament and ek hornbeck is no longer with us to work his html magic for posts to keep up with all the games, men’s and women’s. It is now left to me and I hate html, plus I still have a full time job. The …
Mar 18 2021
A History of NCAA Bracketology
The NCAA Basketball Tournament is back and everyone, even former presidents, are filling out their bracket to see if they can predict who will be the mens’s and women’s champions in April. So who invented NCAA Braketology? Apparently it started in a local pub in my hometown, Staten Island. The bracket pool, a form of …
Feb 21 2021
The America’s Cup 2021 – The Challengers
In case you weren’t aware but yours truly is a person of the sea. I was raised on an island and cannot remember not knowing how to swim. Over the years, I also learned how to sail and have owned a sail boat. Needless to say I love watching the Summer Olympics boat races and …
Feb 07 2021
Super Bowl LV
Just as last Monday’s almost a blizzard two and a half feet of snow started to get that greyish “been here too long” look, Stars Hollow has gotten a fresh coat of the cold white stuff. Not as much as last week but enough for the town to get out the plow guy. He does …
Jan 24 2021
Throwball Playoffs AFC Championship: Bills @ Chiefs
Hard to believe, but it’s true, there used to be a whole other Throwball League called the American Football League that got swallowed up by the NFL and that’s why we have two Conferences today. ek hornbeck 1.19.2020 . Once again the 14 – 2 Kansas City Chiefs are in the AFC Championship game. This …
Jan 24 2021
Throwball Playoffs NFC Championship: Buccaneers @ Packers
Once again the Green Bay Packer’s, ek hornbeck’s favorite team, are in the NFC Championship game. This time they face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on their home turf, Lambeau Field where the weather won’t be a balmy 75. The current forecast calls for a temperature of 29 degrees at kickoff (3:05 p.m. ET), with 2-4 …
Jun 26 2017
America’s Cup: American Defenders Last Race?
The America’s Cup is down to match point in the latest battle of the billionaires for the trophy, affectionately known as the Auld Cup. The challenger from New Zealand leads the American team 6 – 1 after 8 races in this best of seven match. The race is being held in the turquoise blue waters …