Recent content by RichZ

It's a round thing with propeller blades that spin around and blow air at you.

I'm old. In my 80th year on the planet. And I used to watch a lot of other sports, but as I got older, I kind of lost interest in football, soccer, et al. For the last few decades, I've had no real interest in team sports other than Basketball, and I haven't watched an entire NBA game in years...

Okafor was our best center. Period. Not even possible to suggest otherwise. After that, I'd put Sanogo on the next line, either tied with, or a hair's breadth above Clingan. We sure have had a bunch of fun-to-watch centers over the years.

I say this as an old curmudgeon -- The only basketball less watchable than the current NBA is the WNBA.

I hate this. He's been my favorite big since his first UConn game.

Bill Russell Oscar Robertson Third place is too close to pick one, for totally different reasons, between Magic and Earl Monroe.

Couple of the guys "from the family'" reopened the Greeks in Shelton some years back. The food was as close to indistinguishable from the original Tomlinson's stand as could be hoped for. USUALLY. Every now and then, it sucked. Got to where if I walked in and the guy at the grill was under...

I worked for the mob. Early '60s, I delivered the Bridgeport Sporting News -- aka the Scratch Sheet -- a "newspaper" the sole purpose of which was to deliver the number. My route was the East End of Bridgeport. Funny, how you could ride your bike down the street in some really seedy...

Summer when I was a kid. Pretty much every day in the summer from 10 years old on, it was hop on the bike and head out to Pleasure Beach Island to go fishing. One year, I went out almost every day with an old man who ran trot lines through "the gut" for eels. He'd work his trotlines and I'd...

Walt Luckett, Mike Gminski (I used to play against his dad in local adult/rec )

What is it with Charlotte and UConn players? Liam, Bouk, Kemba, Mek, Bazz, Burrell & Lamb have all been drafted or ended up there eventually.

Thanks for the detailed recap. Brings back some memories that haven't risen to the surface of my memory pit in a long time.

They both came here as players. Mamadou played in 31 games, started 5. Then hurt his knee rather badly, and stayed on as a student assistant coach, then became a graduate assistant and finally, after earning his doctorate in Sports Management became director of player development. ISTR that he...

My son is 59. He has grandkids. I still think of him as a kid.

Wes Unseld and Bob McAdoo.