Kiah Stokes

[VAMike23]

I certainly don't want to wish the summer away but I'm really looking forward to next season.

neither can Snidely...........

 

[Kibitzer]

Problem is you can't have stef and kiah together both are 5's. there are other issues also. Stef and tuck are ok. Stef and stewie are getting better, once Stewie learns the offense.

Coaches like Walz and Stringer and Mulkey and McCallie have enough on their minds without having to worry about Stewie learning the offense. They, like I and thousands of other observers, were naively under the impression that she had it pretty well figured out when she ripped through the Big Dance as the MOP.

 

[Sonny44]

UConn wins the most important games of the year, the ones that matter, and people still go out of their way to take shots at Diggins, huh? I edited out several gratuitous shots in another thread but they keep popping up like dandelions.

Actually I think Diggins is a classy lady the way she conducted herself in the semi-final. She resigned herself to losing late in the second half. Did anyone notice how she went out and reached for Kelly's hand with I think about 1:20 left in the game?

 

[DaddyChoc]

Actually I think Diggins is a classy lady the way she conducted herself in the semi-final. She resigned herself to losing late in the second half. Did anyone notice how she went out and reached for Kelly's hand with I think about 1:20 left in the game?

nah I missed that

 

[winlots]

UConn wins the most important games of the year, the ones that matter, and people still go out of their way to take shots at Diggins, huh? I edited out several gratuitous shots in another thread but they keep popping up like dandelions.

NAN - well, I guess it is mighty nice to be in a position to have the sagacity and perspective to decide what is "gratuitous" and what is not. ( Clearly, somebody has to do it, and in all seriousness I continue to honor you and the mods for the difficult job you do. ) I do know that, for once, none of the "shots"
were mine, edited out or not, though I do have my own opinions about Diggins.

However, this post is about dandelions, not about you or Diggins. Ralph Waldo Emerson was purported to have quipped around 1828 that a weed is simply a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Since I suffer the same fate as the weeds with regard to the lack of clarity with which my virtues present themselves , I have become a champion of various so-called weeds.....especially the dandelion which I have cultivated for the past three years. And, as good luck would have it, fast-forwarding from Emerson, some very recent research (especially related to the "Blue Zones") suggests that wild greeens such as the dandelion are among the most nutritious foods we can ingest. Just a tip for the health-conscious among us. Stay well...and keep smilin.

 

[Kibitzer]

NAN - well, I guess it is mighty nice to be in a position to have the sagacity and perspective to decide what is "gratuitous" and what is not. ( Clearly, somebody has to do it, and in all seriousness I continue to honor you and the mods for the difficult job you do. ) I do know that, for once, none of the "shots"
were mine, edited out or not, though I do have my own opinions about Diggins.

However, this post is about dandelions, not about you or Diggins. Ralph Waldo Emerson was purported to have quipped around 1828 that a weed is simply a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Since I suffer the same fate as the weeds with regard to the lack of clarity with which my virtues present themselves , I have become a champion of various so-called weeds.....especially the dandelion which I have cultivated for the past three years. And, as good luck would have it, fast-forwarding from Emerson, some very recent research (especially related to the "Blue Zones") suggests that wild greeens such as the dandelion are among the most nutritious foods we can ingest. Just a tip for the health-conscious among us. Stay well...and keep smilin.

Huh?

 

[Kibitzer]

UConn wins the most important games of the year, the ones that matter, and people still go out of their way to take shots at Diggins, huh? I edited out several gratuitous shots in another thread but they keep popping up like dandelions.

This young lady was as tough (and successful) opponent as UConn ever faced. I guess it's tough for some to view such a foe with endearment after she has whipped our ass so often. With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, permit me to alter his immortal tribute to Gunga Din to fit current circumstances:

"So it's Diggins, Diggins, Diggins!​

Though I've belted you and flayed you​

By the livin' Gawd that made you,​

You were a better player than ours were,*​

Skylar Diggins!​

*(Except, of course, for that last game.)

 

[DaddyChoc]

I understand why Geno wanted her so bad

 

[diggerfoot]

NAN - well, I guess it is mighty nice to be in a position to have the sagacity and perspective to decide what is "gratuitous" and what is not. ( Clearly, somebody has to do it, and in all seriousness I continue to honor you and the mods for the difficult job you do. ) I do know that, for once, none of the "shots"
were mine, edited out or not, though I do have my own opinions about Diggins.

However, this post is about dandelions, not about you or Diggins. Ralph Waldo Emerson was purported to have quipped around 1828 that a weed is simply a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Since I suffer the same fate as the weeds with regard to the lack of clarity with which my virtues present themselves , I have become a champion of various so-called weeds.....especially the dandelion which I have cultivated for the past three years. And, as good luck would have it, fast-forwarding from Emerson, some very recent research (especially related to the "Blue Zones") suggests that wild greeens such as the dandelion are among the most nutritious foods we can ingest. Just a tip for the health-conscious among us. Stay well...and keep smilin.

I have a somewhat different view on dandelions. My first "parents not at home" high school party was at a house where they made dandelion wine. My first drinking experience was apparently with two bottles of home made dandelion wine. I say apparently because I don't recall all the details of that night. I do have a vague recollection of sliding down their stairs multiple times until, at last, I simply rolled over and cleared my stomach. Them dandelions weren't the most nutritious food I've ingested.

 

[meyers7]

Actually I think Diggins is a classy lady the way she conducted herself in the semi-final. She resigned herself to losing late in the second half. Did anyone notice how she went out and reached for Kelly's hand with I think about 1:20 left in the game?

Yea, noticed that. I think Diggins handled herself very well in defeat. Almost better than in victory.

Maybe many here would have liked her better if UCONN had beat her more?

 

[winlots]

DIG - great one. Many chuckles here....especially on those multiple slides down the stairs. Though all the details didnt stay with you, seems like the essential lessons remain.
The folks back in the PA mountains and coal regions still make alot of that wine ( and from many fruits as well ). Have several flavors on hand here in fact. Stay well!

 

[cohenzone]

Yea, noticed that. I think Diggins handled herself very well in defeat. Almost better than in victory.

Maybe many here would have liked her better if UCONN had beat her more?

I would have liked her much more, although she didn't bother me that much. It's her team, or rather her athletic dept. and school administration (relative to sports) that bothered me. ND couldn't lose often enough for me in any sport. And now I despise them even more. Who the heck am I going to dislike nearly as much in the new league? Bereft of enemies, a depressing thought.

 

[meyers7]

I would have liked her much more, although she didn't bother me that much. It's her team, or rather her athletic dept. and school administration (relative to sports) that bothered me. ND couldn't lose often enough for me in any sport. And now I despise them even more. Who the heck am I going to dislike nearly as much in the new league? Bereft of enemies, a depressing thought.

I agree about ND. I was indoctrinated at a young age. Fisheaters by dad always called them.

We still got Rutgers for a year.

 

[Icebear]

DIG - great one. Many chuckles here....especially on those multiple slides down the stairs. Though all the details didnt stay with you, seems like the essential lessons remain.
The folks back in the PA mountains and coal regions still make alot of that wine ( and from many fruits as well ). Have several flavors on hand here in fact. Stay well!

In Central PA, too. I had a parishioner who gave me a bottle of her dandalion wine every year while she was alive.

 

[meyers7]

In Central PA, too. I had a parishioner who gave me a bottle of her dandalion wine every year while she was alive.

Well geez Ice, if you are going to set it up like that, I can't help myself.


It's probably what killed her.

 

[Icebear]

Well geez Ice, if you are going to set it up like that, I can't help myself.


It's probably what killed her.

Nah, it was the Roundup used by the neighbor.

 

[msf22b]

Actually I think Diggins is a classy lady the way she conducted herself in the semi-final. She resigned herself to losing late in the second half. Did anyone notice how she went out and reached for Kelly's hand with I think about 1:20 left in the game?

Guys, we had a big (contentious) thread on that.

 

[meyers7]

Nah, it was the Roundup used by the neighbor.

Reminds me, I gotta get some of that. Or make some wine.

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

Guys, we had a big (contentious) thread on that.

Thank for The Memories...Hope that is in the Past

 

[vtcwbuff]

I agree about ND. I was indoctrinated at a young age. Fisheaters by dad always called them.

We still got Rutgers for a year.

Is that the same as calling them mackeral snappers?

 

[vtcwbuff]

I can only imagine the reaction here if Taurasi had played for ND and owned UConn for a couple of years.

 

[DaddyChoc]

ask Tennessee fans.. they know the feeling

 

[alexrgct]

Except Diana Taurasi was NPOY, a three-time national champion, and the first player selected in the wnba draft. And despite the attempt of some to speculate that there is some magical era in which Skylar would have accomplished those things too, it certainly didn't occur in hers.

 

[triaddukefan]

My Diggens was Ivory Latta. Don't know why but she just rubbed me the wrong way. Diggens not so much. .

Let the congregation say AMEN !

 

[Icebear]

Except Diana Taurasi was NPOY, a three-time national champion, and the first player selected in the wnba draft. And despite the attempt of some to speculate that there is some magical era in which Skylar would have accomplished those things too, it certainly didn't occur in hers.

Yeah, there is that.