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Gamecock Nation has come together and raised money through a GoFundMe account to send one of it's biggest fans to the Final Four. This guy is known as "Baseline Jesus" or "Gamecock Jesus" to everyone around here. I'm sure @Slapdash and @Mjolnirs know who this guy is. He sits on the baseline for all of the basketball games, men and women, and waves his flag and stomps his feet. 

He's a nurse @ the VA Hospital but attends all kinds of Gamecock sporting events including both basketball teams, baseball, football, and countless others. Well the GOFundMe page is up to over $7300 so far and GJ is going and taking his buddy Eddie with him. Eddie is one of the main ticket guys around these parts. I've bought countless tickets from him over the years. I'm lucky enough to know these 2 individuals, just not lucky enough to go to the FF with them. Here's to a safe trip to both.

Gamecock Jesus to the Final Four

Gamecock Jesus GoFundMe

 
Speaking of Final Four, I know that this thread is 99.999999999999999999999999% mens basketball but I gotta give props to Dawn Staley and the Gamecock Women's basketball team for also making the Final Four. They made it despite the fact that their center, Alaina Coates who is possibly going to be the #1 player picked in the WNBA draft, got a high ankle sprain late in the season and hasn't played in the tourney and probably won't play. Now they are playing in the UCONN Invitational so chances of a tiltle are a lot slimmer than the guys but congrats for them making the FF. Only the 10th time that the men's and women's team from the same school have made the FF in the same season.

 
SFBayDuck said:
Does he just do leg extensions and hamstring curls all day?
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Kind of a fun article here.

For years, Donna Millak made $4 an hour at her job, sewing. She battled cancer, lost her oldest son in a terrible car accident, and the company she worked for was sold and moved numerous times, but her sewing machine was always there, especially when she needed it.

"She does what she loves," her husband, George, said.

Donna, 71, has rich red hair and kind eyes. Since 1972, she's woke up every weekday morning, and reported for work where she serves as the seamstress who stitches the names and numbers on the Trail Blazers jerseys.

"I don't know why anyone would want to know anything about me," she said.

After hearing her story, I don't know why anyone wouldn't.

You know Millak's work well. I do, too, even as I just recently met her. And so maybe you'll watch the Blazers play the Rockets in this Western Conference first-round playoff series and look a little closer.

The jersey business has changed over the years, of course. Millak used to cut out every element by hand. There were stencils for the lettering. She'd have to sew the "PORTLAND" or "BLAZERS" on the front, piecing two layers of lettering together.

"It was labor intensive," she said, "I handled that uniform a lot of times."

Players in the 1970s and 1980s would be fitted for the uniforms in person. Millak would get a list of the players' names and sizes. "Walton's was huge," she said. But for a final fitting she used to go to the locker room with the uniforms, and the players would try them on.

"I hated being in the locker room," she said. "Half the time I was in the shower area. A couple of the guys were so shy, and I was, too, I just kept looking at the floor. This was long before women were anywhere in the locker room. I remember one of the players in the late 1970s saw me in there and said, 'What's she doing in here?'"

Former No. 1 overall draft pick Mychal Thompson heard this and announced, "She's a married lady, guys. She's seen everything in here guys, it's no big deal."

After that season, the players came to her shop.

Millak remembers that Dave Twardzik would stop by and talk with her every season after he was fitted for his uniform. She remembers forward Kenny Carr watching her work. She removed a former player's last name from the back of a jersey and began to sew on a new player's last name. Carr was floored when he realized that the team recycled jerseys.

"The franchise didn't have the money it has now," Millak said. "We did that a lot. Carr says to me, 'I'm superstitious. Please tell me that you've never done that with my jersey.'

"I assured him we never had. But little does he know."

I asked Millak who the most fickle player to fit for a uniform was, and she didn't hesitate --- guard Darnell Valentine, who played for Portland from 1981-86.

"Oh my God, he loved his legs," she said. "I had to shorten his shorts every year. He'd say, 'I have beautiful legs. I can't hide these things.' So I'd shorten the shorts, and he'd try them on and have to go find a mirror in the back of the shop because I didn't have one at my station.

"Darnell would parade around the shop in those shorts until we got it right."
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In The Zone said:
Speaking of Final Four, I know that this thread is 99.999999999999999999999999% mens basketball but I gotta give props to Dawn Staley and the Gamecock Women's basketball team for also making the Final Four. They made it despite the fact that their center, Alaina Coates who is possibly going to be the #1 player picked in the WNBA draft, got a high ankle sprain late in the season and hasn't played in the tourney and probably won't play. Now they are playing in the UCONN Invitational so chances of a tiltle are a lot slimmer than the guys but congrats for them making the FF. Only the 10th time that the men's and women's team from the same school have made the FF in the same season.
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On NPR yesterday, heard a reporter from a Charleston paper (I think) for a quick interview about USC final 4 and the host mentioned the fact that the women could make the final 4 and Clemson also won the football championship, making SC the epicenter of college championships.  He mentioned the Coastal Carolina baseball championship also (which was mentioned upthread).

Can't be many states to ever hold the football, basketball, baseball and women's basketball championships at the same time.   Maybe California or Florida some time?

 
Long Ball Larry said:
On NPR yesterday, heard a reporter from a Charleston paper (I think) for a quick interview about USC final 4 and the host mentioned the fact that the women could make the final 4 and Clemson also won the football championship, making SC the epicenter of college championships.  He mentioned the Coastal Carolina baseball championship also (which was mentioned upthread).

Can't be many states to ever hold the football, basketball, baseball and women's basketball championships at the same time.   Maybe California or Florida some time?
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No Florida school has won the women's D-I basketball title since the NCAA took it over in 1982.  But four different Texas schools (Texas, A&M, Tech, Baylor) and two California schools (USC, Stanford) have.  

 
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Close in 2005 ... Texas had the football (Texas), women's basketball (Baylor) and baseball (Texas again), but the men's hoop champion was North Carolina.

The football/baseball double has been done a few other times. Miami had both in 2001 ... USC (asterisk)/Cal State Fullerton in 2004 ... Georgia Tech (split with Washington)/Georgia in 1990.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
On NPR yesterday, heard a reporter from a Charleston paper (I think) for a quick interview about USC final 4 and the host mentioned the fact that the women could make the final 4 and Clemson also won the football championship, making SC the epicenter of college championships.  He mentioned the Coastal Carolina baseball championship also (which was mentioned upthread).

Can't be many states to ever hold the football, basketball, baseball and women's basketball championships at the same time.   Maybe California or Florida some time?
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I read somewhere that in the early 70s UCLA won the men's basketball,  USC won baseball and football all in the same season. No mention of women's basketball. 

 
Good Posting Judge said:
To be fair, their final prognostication gave Trumpito a 30% chance on the eve of the election. Probability-wise, that's far more than many others gave him.
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Few thousands votes in Michigan and PA swung it all and they gave him a great chance in those states. People saying that 538 missed just don't understand probabilities. 

 
In The Zone said:
Gamecock Nation has come together and raised money through a GoFundMe account to send one of it's biggest fans to the Final Four. This guy is known as "Baseline Jesus" or "Gamecock Jesus" to everyone around here. I'm sure @Slapdash and @Mjolnirs know who this guy is. He sits on the baseline for all of the basketball games, men and women, and waves his flag and stomps his feet.
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Here in Charleston we have a long time sports show that is hosted by a guy that was the mic man back in the early 70s.  Huge Gamecock fan.  After the Cocks made the sweet 16 he said that if they made the final four he would end up in the Betty Ford Clinic.  Monday he said the clinic would have to wait, he was going to the games.  Hide your Crown Royal.

 
Capella said:
Few thousands votes in Michigan and PA swung it all and they gave him a great chance in those states. People saying that 538 missed just don't understand probabilities. 
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Still, the perception is that 538 missed their prediction and lost some of their mystique of infallibility.  You gotta wonder how long the site has until ESPN pulls the plug. 

Their content rarely interests me and I'm a big nerd.  It seems like they rarely have articles that go viral nowadays.

 
Nice stories in the NIT final.  2 good coaches in their first year at new programs trying to build something for the future.

When the Yellow Jackets needed overtime to win their exhibition against Shorter, nobody expected them to end the season in Madison Square Garden with a championship on the line. The story has been rehashed countless times by now. In their first year on The Flats, Coach Josh Pastner and freshman guard Josh Okogie have re-energized the program to a level it hasn’t been at since Derrick Favors signed on to spend a season with the Jackets. Now one game is all that stands between Tech and an NIT Championship.

Their opponent, the TCU Horned Frogs, are nearly as unlikely to be here. When their seniors were freshmen, the Frogs were in their second year as members of the Big 12 and went winless in conference play. This season, under former Pitt coach Jamie Dixon, they were picked to finish last in the conference by the Big 12 coaches. After a strong non-conference schedule, TCU stumbled down the stretch, losing their last 7 regular season games. They rallied in the Big 12 tournament to knock off top seeded Kansas in the second round, giving them a signature win and pushing them into the NIT. Things didn’t get easier there. In the first round against Fresno State freshman guard Jaylen Fisher, the Frogs’ 3rd leading scorer, fractured his wrist knocking him out for the remainder of the season. TCU barely missed a beat, defeating Iowa, Richmond, and UCF to earn a berth in the NIT Championship.
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Long Ball Larry said:
Nice stories in the NIT final.  2 good coaches in their first year at new programs trying to build something for the future.
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Ga. Tech has a 1st year play by play man named Andy Demetra. Andy was the Gamecock PBP guy up until last year. Maybe he was the jinx. 

I'm only kidding. He called both CWS Championships for the Gamecocks. He left because he couldn't get the PBP job for football here. Our PBP guy there is former Gamecock QB Todd Ellis. Some fans want him out since he really isn't a professional radio guy. I personally don't mind him. He's a homer for sure. Listen to him call this punt return. Pretty funny.







 



 
 
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Long Ball Larry said:
On NPR yesterday, heard a reporter from a Charleston paper (I think) for a quick interview about USC final 4 and the host mentioned the fact that the women could make the final 4 and Clemson also won the football championship, making SC the epicenter of college championships.  He mentioned the Coastal Carolina baseball championship also (which was mentioned upthread).

Can't be many states to ever hold the football, basketball, baseball and women's basketball championships at the same time.   Maybe California or Florida some time?
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One more to add to this list is the #1 golfer in the world Dustin Johnson. He is a local guy from right here in the Midlands and played @ Coastal Carolina.

 
Tech and TCU have some steep mountains to climb in their respective conferences.

There were some exceptions like CSU-Bakersfield's run to MSG, but the power conferences generally did well in the NIT bracket.  I don't know if this says anything significant about how they should be rated vs. mid-majors for at-large bids.

 
Yo some dude in this college dunk contest just had his man take off his prosthetic leg, place the ball in it and hold it in the air while standing on one leg and then the player tried to dunk off it.

His boy was standing on one leg while holding his leg and this guy missed the dunk. ????

 
In The Zone said:
Ga. Tech has a 1st year play by play man named Andy Demetra. Andy was the Gamecock PBP guy up until last year. Maybe he was the jinx. 

I'm only kidding. He called both CWS Championships for the Gamecocks. He left because he couldn't get the PBP job for football here. Our PBP guy there is former Gamecock QB Todd Ellis. Some fans want him out since he really isn't a professional radio guy. I personally don't mind him. He's a homer for sure. Listen to him call this punt return. Pretty funny.
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Good for Andy.  I haven't listened to Todd in years.  Is that still Tommy doing the broadcast with him?

 
Wow, USC women move on to championship game AND get a huge help as miss st knocks off icon in the new the semifinal.

sadly, coastal loses their bid to win the cbi, grtting drubbed by Wyoming.

 
Some random thoughts.....

1. I think Frank Martin is, by far, the biggest media star to come out of this year's tournament. Anything short of a kiddie porn conviction, he's got good coaching jobs for as long as he wants to coach (I'd take him at Maryland right now and I'm not as down on Turgeon as many Terps fans are).

2. Has there ever been a P5 program in the modern era make a Final Four with less hoops cred than South Carolina? They got a 2 seed several years ago and promptly got knocked out by a 15. Other than that, nada. Between the men's run and the women being in the final, this has to give them a huge cache bump, no?

3.  Don't tell anyone I said this, but I'll actually feel sorry for Roy Williams if Carolina doesn't win this. This dude gets to Final Fours every other year, on average, these days. I don't feel bad for Roy's well-being, but for the ignorant hot takes about him being bad on big stages. That guy is a genuinely great coach and a good guy.

4. That said, I hope UNC loses by 80 tonight. #### those guys.

5. Oregon's getting very little national play coming in and Dana Altman is certainly the most boring (or, forgotten) media personality of the remaining coaches. I hope he wins by 80 tonight.

6. I think, for overall historical purposes, Gonzaga winning the national championship would serve best. They'd be the first mid-major since UNLV 27 years ago to do it, and it would also be the capper on an incredible 20-year run for their program. 

7. FADE ME HARD ALERT! Zags 65/USC 61. Carolina 82/Oregon 75

 
Long Ball Larry said:
Wow, USC women move on to championship game AND get a huge help as miss st knocks off icon in the new the semifinal.

sadly, coastal loses their bid to win the cbi, grtting drubbed by Wyoming.
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The Lady Gamecocks are 2-0 vs Miss State this year. You know the saying.  "It's hard to beat a good team 3 times in 1 season ".

No matter how things play out I hope and wish that yesterday is the start of 4 days of fun basketball here in SC.

 
Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
Semi related

Just finished the Baylor scandal doc "Disgraced".  Since I'm not a big NCAA BB guy I never realized what a hunk of #### Dave Bliss is.
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Just saw it last night.  What a cretin...and a self-professed "Christian", no less..  Sickening.

 
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CBS just ran a nice piece on Butch Lee, who was the best player on a fantastic Marquette team that beat (an also fantastic) UNC for the 1977 title.

Butch was a GREAT college player. He was Zeke Thomas before Zeke Thomas was. That whole team was a blast. They wore their uniforms with the shirt-tails out. Their home court was decorated funkily. They had Al McGuire at coach, Jerome Whitehead, Bo Ellis, Bernard Toome...... Hindsight, but they were probably the first hip-hop team. 

 
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