Look, I’m from Alabama. But the man who did sports while spitting dip juice into his coke can was a better sportscaster than Jim Hill and all of LA’s CBS2 Sports Central (insert lightning logo here!) team. Here’s a recap of their March Madness recap:
- - “UCLA plays Alabama at 5 pm on Saturday, Live on CBS2!”
- - They never showed, on-screen, the final score of a game. They would say it in passing, but they’d show highlights until they tired of it — say, when Team A was up 52-49 at the half over Team B — and then Jim would mumble, “And Team B scored 10 unanswered at the end to win it by 3.”
- - “Steve, UConn’s struggle really points out what a great job UCLA did against Belmont.”
- - I should point out I’m not making this up: they misspelled “Madness.” The PowerPoint template they used to show tomorrow’s game schedule said “MARCH MADNES 2006″ at the top of each “slide.” You’d see “MARCH MADNES 2006: TEAM A vs. TEAM C” and then they’d have this awesome cyclonic Sports Central logo flash on the screen at the sound of a passing jet, dissolving to the next game — “MARCH MADNES 2006: TEAM E vs. TEAM G.”
- - We’re gonna have to see how Thursday’s bomb threat in San Diego before the early game will affect UCLA tomorrow in their 5 PM game LIVE HERE ON CBS 2 versus Alabama.
In downtown Dothan, there’s a clothing store that’s been there since the 70’s called SuperBad. In the 90’s, SuperBad had a secret meeting of all their top scientists, and they created a smooth robot who anchors Dothan’s news station. If you’re ever in Dothan, watch the news — you’ll see what I mean.
There are times when I’ve been at home and it’s clear that the SuperBad News Robot is the only entity at the station during the broadcast, controlling camera changes with his robotic stare. Did he eliminate the others on the news team? Is he holding morning show host Ann Varnum hostage in the WTVY basement? Is he reading our minds at home?
Anyway, the SuperBad news robot? Better than the pros here in my hometown of Los Angeles.
Alabama just won their opening-round NCAA Tournament game over Marquette, 90-85.
NINETY POINTS.
There have probably been 3-game spans when Alabama didn’t score 90 points. Jean Felix shot 8-of-11 from behind the 3-point line and scored 31 points. His previous 2 games, he was 2-for-15.
I ran some errands yesterday, and while buying various items (plus one tube of Cortaid for the itchy man in the parking lot) at Rite Aid I came across this product which, well, needs very little explanation:
This is one of those blurry mobile phone pictures. In case you can’t make it out, it reads “For Pet or People Accidents!” Which wording is to not be usual.
I’m not trying to make any sort of statement here… I just found the placement of these two Yahoo News headlines, only four lines apart, to be hilarious (or something):
Cat Comforts Grieving Orangutan at Zoo
Lance Armstrong Comforts Dana Reeve’s Son
Top headline on Yahoo right now:
“Afghan police kill four in cartoon bloodshed.”
Did they kill Itchy, Scratchy, Poochie and one unnamed associate? I haven’t heard this much about cartoon violence in years. There’s got to be a better way to word this.
This beautiful January weather we’re having (trust me, rest of country) has coincided with an extremely busy couple of weeks. All Saints’ hosted a conference last week for which I ran sound and tech. It was fun, just long days (after getting home, had other clients to catch up on, all that). We’ve also received some news about my grandmother’s health these past few days… kind of in a holding pattern right now as we wait for more news.
Managed to go to see Brokeback Mountain sometime last week — Utah, you don’t know what you’re missing — and ate at a fun Korean BBQ place over the weekend. Also, running sound at the conference means I got to be around people while I was busy, which was nice. Even chatted with some folks, got to know the people I worked with, made new friends. Nice working like that.
Still, it all adds up to exhaustion if you’re not careful — so I believe Thursday morning will be a surf day. Mid-morning is supposed to see some amount of swell in case anyone wants to meet at Ocean Park.
A while back on “the neighborhood,” I posted about the murder of Eric Gelman. He was killed here in the Fairfax disctrict while walking to his car after work.
I grabbed a local free newspaper this morning and learned that the police have arrested a man on charges of murdering Eric. The man’s name is Kim McMurray, he’s 43 and being held on 1.08 million dollars bail. They believe the murder was in the course of a robbery.
The front page portion of the article from the Park Labrea News/Beverly Press appears below. Click on it to read the rest of the article.
