(sigh)

Who am I kidding? I'll check it out.

I wonder if the troughs survived the renovations of the offseason. If any changes were made to the plumbing, then they would have had to have put in urinals to keep up with current plumbing codes.

Sometimes you see a lone urinal in a men's room and that's because they if they add on they have to put one of those in. They can't make the troughs longer.

In particular, the one where Alan Shepard is stuck on the launch pad for a long time.

I've seen about, oh, 20-30 times.

"The Dodgers can be heard throughout the 2006 season on KFWB 980, but there's a new twist this year. For those who own a high definition radio receiver, they can tune into 97.1 FREE FM for crystal clear stereo sound, anywhere you can get 97.1. For more information on how to get an HD receiver, visit www.kfwb.com."

I don't really get it. You hear different programming on 97.1 depending on what kind of radio you have?

Let's go Bruins!

Right now, a regular FM station broadcasts in hybrid mode and reserves part of its signal for HD.

There are built in buffers to keep the digital and analog signals from running into each other.

So sayeth, Popular Mechanics.

HD radios are still going to set you back a few hundred bucks. And even more if you want it in your car.

UCLA does not have a compelling storyline compared to George Mason or LSU. Florida really doesn't either, but since Florida is favored over George Mason, they are perceived to be the strong team.

Hey, I wrote a long piece about UCLA in the "dark period" at the Griddle and I drew mainly crickets and tumbleweeds.

Tivo, don't let me down! (I'll have to avoid these threads til Monday night)

cp

UCLA is also a better-shooting team than LSU, especially on 3-pointers. UCLA's low scores are a result of a slow game in which they use the whole shot clock, not because they can't shoot.

I'm predicting a 62-55 score.

I'd forgotten he was an asst. coach at UCSB for many, many years, and the article mentions this often - pulling out former Gaucho players for quotes, and Jerry Pimm, the coach he worked under. When Pimm left, they really should have hired Howland. He was at Northern Arizona, then Pitt... Anyway, it's a good piece.

C

Care to predict George Mason-Florida?

UCLA is also much better-coached than LSU, a point that I think goes a long way. The Bruins will be better prepared, and likely more mature despite the fact that both UCLA and LSU are very young teams.

UCLA won't have a senior on next year's squad.

What we have here is a very loose definition of the word "heard"

Hopefully they'll let 'em play, and we'll see a hard fought game, and not an unscripted episode of "scrubs."

Oh, and I'll see your girly-man grading and raise you 20 senior honors theses. Each one 100 or so pages. Oh, my eyes!

Don't people remember Stuart Gray? Ralph Jackson? Montel Hatcher? Gary Maloncon? Brett Vroman? Greg Foster?

One time my dad brother and I went to the men's room at the old Vet in Philly, halftime of an Eagles game so the place was PACKED, the dad and I got in lines that ended at urinals and we were fine but my brother's line was for...a hole in the wall.

Literally.

Didn't stop him at all, or anybody else behind him in line...ahhh, gotta love being a guy sometimes!

Trevor Wilson

29 - What about Gig Sims?

Gig Sims was a childhood hero, albeit a great disappointment as a player.

Mainly because his name was Gig.

Were they expecting "Vanity Fair?"

Oh the humanity!

Because of Stuart, I got to go to the Sports Arena for the City semifinals. Which Kennedy lost to Crenshaw and Gary Maloncon.

Doug Davis.

I don't regret that either.

Chris Paul
Rasual Butler
Linton Johnson
Aaron Williams
Marc Jackson

Byron Scott should win coach of the millenium for just having a lead.

He played for the Cleveland Browns in the early 70's

Granted I moved 8,000 miles away 3 days after graduation and haven't been back since, but I'd have thought I'd have heard something if one of them had.

My decision was also informed by the fact that I was 6'2" 140lbs as a 14-year old, and had stopped growing. I didn't exactly have a chance to develop guard skills as a kid given my height, and wasn't big enough to keep playing as a forward or center.