[NU Sports] Please unsubscribe me. Thanks.

Mon Feb 6 22:10:41 CST 2006

Hey now, that's not what I meant.  I hoped that my "Okay, enough joking 
about" would've cleared that up.  I apologize for any misconfusion this 
may have caused.

Anyways, is anyone going to see any of our first 22 baseball games, all on 
the road?

Jonathan

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Roy Lamberton wrote:

> Gee, Guys, the "curse of the Wildcats" was just an attempt to put an NU spin on
> a national sports story....
>
> I guess it is time for me to pack up and leave too.
>
> rsl
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate
> Computer Applications & Support Associates
> and Publisher of Purple Reign,
> The Scout.com Northwestern University Site
> (http://www.purplewildcats.com)
> AIM Handle: CoachRoy74
> ======== Go Cats -  Beat 'em All ===========
> Every time I think I've got this Computer
> Biz handled
>            -- There's another upgrade.
> ============================================
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
>> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan
>> Michael Hawkins
>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 3:27 PM
>> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Please unsubscribe me. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Martinitis at aol.com wrote:
>>> And they are getting just too negative for my blood as well.
>>
>> <sigh>
>>
>> Well, that's true.  Between focusing entirely on "The Curse"
>> and the "I
>> Love Jay Mariotti and Rick Telander [oh, and Fire Randy
>> Walker, too!]"
>> Brigade, I'm not sure how much of a "fan" list this is any
>> more.  It used
>> to be like 100% fan.  Maybe now it's 70% fan, 30% "I went to
>> NU and have
>> found that incessant negativity wins friends and influences people".
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I could write "the weather's so nice out
>> today" on the
>> list and someone would come back with "No thanks to Randy
>> Walker.  And if
>> Mark Murphy doesn't fire him soon I'm going to continue to
>> give my West
>> Lot pass away to Michigan fans". ;-)
>>
>> Okay, enough joking about.  For real, here's some positive ideas and
>> commentary:
>>
>> It's worth noting, and this is partially my fault, no one
>> wrote in to talk
>> about our 'Cats incredibly heart-filled performance on
>> Saturday against
>> Michigan State at home.  I'll try to rectify that - I was at
>> the game and
>> had a great time.
>>
>> We lost, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a time when everyone
>> played with
>> the kind of guts and emotion that were displayed out there on
>> the court on
>> Saturday night.
>>
>> We couldn't seem to get our open shots to fall as much as we
>> wanted them
>> to, but we did create those open looks and also gave MSU fits
>> on defense.
>> Most of the guys out there looked like they had the fires of
>> hell behind
>> their eyes.  At one point Cote was bending over under the
>> basket to tie
>> his shoe or something, MSU had gotten the rebound and was
>> about to go down
>> the court, and Vedran shoved some MSU guy who'd pissed him off.  The
>> Spartan guy goes flying *over* Cote and lands in a heap.  No call.
>> Vedran was on fire with anger and passion.  He fouled out
>> with 2 minutes
>> left, leaving to a prolonged standing ovation.
>>
>> That no-call was typical of the evening, actually.  The
>> referees were just
>> horrid on both sides of the ball, but it certainly made the game more
>> interesting.  Levels of ire increased on both sides due to the poor
>> officiating, to the point where MSU tried to get into a fight
>> with us at
>> the end of the first half.  Michael Jenkins got a regular old
>> foul (under
>> the limit), but then there were offsetting technicals for
>> fighting after
>> the foul, and then one of the MSU assistant coaches got into
>> it, which
>> resulted in them having two Ts to our one.  So Vedran took
>> two free throws
>> and made them both.  Michigan State got the ball after that
>> for Jenkins'
>> original foul.  We were quite amused.
>>
>> Moore drained some nice looking threes, and I think Carmody
>> may be warming
>> up to Cote - some of the postgame comments to Eanet indicated that we
>> should probably see much more play time out of him in the rest of the
>> season.  He went from 6 minutes vs. Indiana to 19 in Saturday's game.
>>
>> Usually losses just crush me and leave me feeling tired and
>> depressed, but
>> this one was so entertaining and scrappy I just couldn't feel
>> bad about
>> it.
>>
>> Hopefully we can translate that passion and intensity into some wins
>> against lesser Big Ten teams than MSU.
>>
>> Go 'Cats,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Michael Hawkins
>> <http://www.jomiha.com>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> nwu-sports site list
>> nwu-sports at tssi.com
>> http://romaine.tssi.com/mailman/listinfo/nwu-sports
>>
>
>

-- 
Jonathan Michael Hawkins
<http://www.jomiha.com>