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Message: [QUOTE="DataNerd, post: 3938605, member: 4172"] Three acronyms: UCLA, CPTV, TiVo. As a kid I watched Wooden's Bruins whenever they were on (national) TV, at first in awe of their choreography and teamwork, and later in awe of how Coach recruited, developed, and prepared his players to climb his Pyramid of Success in life as much as in the game. After he retired and Phi Slama Jama blazed the path to showboating me-first play, I stopped watching in disgust of what the game had become. Until one night in 1995 when I turned on CPTV and thought that Coach Wooden had returned to coach women until I saw this animated young guy and this lanky lady doing her best to guard against a technical. I was commuting from New Haven to NYC, so I used my VCR to tape games in its "hi def" STD setting, swearing when games would start late or otherwise go past the tape's 2-hour limit or were picked up by ESPN and the VCR was still set on CPTV. TiVo saved me, auto-switching channels and times as agily as our ladies shifted their defenses, wildcard searches capturing specials I didn't know existed. Here's the best part: If the broadcast wasn't copyrighted, TiVo let you upload the game, in my case to an iTunes archive spanning years of games. I love watching the players of all levels develop over their UConn careers and beyond, and love to relive moments big, touching, and humorous. Follow Maria Conlon's growth to indispensible point guard who enable D to be D. Who didn't laugh while Lobo dissected how efficiently Meghan Gardler found her spot, fixed her hair, then calmly swished a trey? And now I have Paige's athletic butt slap of Geno, and JJ guarding Geno from walking away from the timeout huddle. Add to these CPTV's and SNY's specials and virtual team reunions, and wow what a richness of memories to relive after Geno and CD eventually retire. As he said, "as long as I have these memories, I'm good". We are too. Thank you CPTV for betting that PBSers would watch and fall in love with this program, these coaches, and most of all, these wonderful ladies playing the game as it was intended to be played. [/QUOTE]

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