UConn's Breanna Stewart leads U.S. to U18 Gold LINK Michaela Mabrey Leads United States To Gold Medal At FIBA Americas U18 Championship LINK
I'm proud of Mabrey's contribution, great kid. I have a feeling, we're all going to take Stewie for granted after a while...oh, maybe not.
Um . . I'm pretty sure that this year Baylor won the NCAA Title, but Uconn won the NCAA Championship. Yeah . . I'm pretty sure that's how it happened. (I saw it on Facebook). Yeah. Uh huh.
I suspect the person who wrote up the' Mabrey headline is the same one who told the tall tale about 'Digger' Graves and her crucial putback that led to a 19-0 run earlier in the tourney.
. This is like reading Pravda or Izvestiya in the 1960s and 70s. . More Dueling Headlines - http://tinyurl.com/d5cfl8v
Mabrey had a very good tourney. She did not impress me much in the AA games, but she seems to be really solid and a terrific shooter. Obviously I'm thrilled with the kids we got, but ND seems to keep on rolling with the good recruits...
Ah, the Golden Dome PR Machine. It resulted in Joe Theisman changing the pronunciation of his name to rhyme with Heisman instead of sounding like Theesman.
In the one game that Prince had more points, an equal number of rebounds, more steals and more assists than Tuck, I saw the headline of "Tuck Leads USA Past Colombia." Of course, that wasn't written by a Baylor person. It comes with the territory. Homerism abounds.
Exactly. It was a reporter/blogger on the UConn beat. It was posted and linked here and no one felt the need to point out it was Prince who led the team not Tuck. Just like that game you could look at it different ways. How and when were the points scored and how did they impact the game. The USA game that Prince led the team the outcome was never in doubt. The championship game had the USA down by double digits after first period when Mabrey went off sparking a run to get the game under control. She got to 14pts before the any others got to double digits and the game was already won. The coach and Stewart herself both more or less said that Mabrey turned it around. Still, without a doubt Stewart and Tuck should have have been the MVP candidates and were definite leaders. If there was an all tourney team though, Mabrey would be standing there beside them after records in assists and shooting while finishing the tourney leading in assists, assist/to ratio, and 3pts made.
She had TEN assists in one game. Kinda padding her stats, no? Just like you accused Tuck and Stewart doing. More or less? What exactly did they say?
PR machines, or PR pressures, do cause players to change the pronunciation of their own names to fit American audiences - case in point, Anna Kournikova. I once heard her pronounce her own name exactly the way a Frenchman would say it: koor-nick-OH-vuh. American journalists slavishly follow the Frenchification of Russian names, out of a misplaced sense of inferiority, I guess. Russians pronounce the name KOOR-neek-uh-vuh. I have doubts about the Theismann story, however, unless the Theismann family did not follow standard German pronunciation rules. Entirely possible, of course, as his father was a New Jerseyite by way of Austria. Fuhgeddaboudit! Leonard Bernstein would seethe when he heard clueless people pronounce his name 'BURN-steen' instead of 'BURN-stine.'
Mabrey deserved POG recognition for being the only kid on Team USA capable of consistently hitting a shot early in the game. Since it was the Gold Medal Game, the headline wasn't unreasonable. Tuck or Breanna probably played the best on balance if you take a tourney-wide view of things, so a headline with their names would be reasonable as well.
