What year was the last WBCA HS All-American game in Hartford?
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I happened to sit right behind Chubby. Headed to LadyVol in that one [I think] was Shanna Zolman.
There was some tall dude who held a sign that said 'she's going to Tenn. but her heart belongs to me'.
At one point recently I thought that guy may have been our very own Bruinball...of course we know that his heart belongs to his wife and then #2 is
Kelly.
There was some tall dude who held a sign that said 'she's going to Tenn. but her heart belongs to me'.
At one point recently I thought that guy may have been our very own Bruinball...of course we know that his heart belongs to his wife and then #2 is
Kelly.
Yes. Read the vowelguy response in the ultra-tiny font size: it was 2002.
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And now the real reason behind my query, which has little to do with basketball. (I really DID need to know that year, folks.)
I had great tickets for the 2002 WBCA game, centercourt seats about 8 rows up, but I couldn't use them. The day before the game I had an emergency angiogram done at St. Vincent's Hospital in Bridgeport after being taken by ambulance from Norwalk Hospital. The diagnosis of impending heart attack at Norwalk was wrong - by a country mile - but the angiography procedure put me out of commission for a few days as I have a blood condition that causes a low platelet count, and hence poor clotting. Even though I was actually in "great shape" according to St. Vincent's, the test beat me up pretty bad and I was ordered to stay in bed for the weekend when I got home.
So what did I actually have in 2002? GERD. (Acid Reflux) It took 4 trips to Norwalk Hospital in 13 days, including 2 overnight stays, countless visits by internists in training (I think I had bedside visits by doctors from every country in East Asia), X-Rays, CAT Scans, and who knows what else. On day 13, I was sitting up in bed and had a new symptom: suddenly my heart seemed to be on fire. My heart was burning!
D'oh! Heartburn!
Thirty minutes later, the doctor walked in and announced the diagnosis: Heartburn (Acid Reflux, GERD).
I watched the game on television.
And now the real reason behind my query, which has little to do with basketball. (I really DID need to know that year, folks.)
I had great tickets for the 2002 WBCA game, centercourt seats about 8 rows up, but I couldn't use them. The day before the game I had an emergency angiogram done at St. Vincent's Hospital in Bridgeport after being taken by ambulance from Norwalk Hospital. The diagnosis of impending heart attack at Norwalk was wrong - by a country mile - but the angiography procedure put me out of commission for a few days as I have a blood condition that causes a low platelet count, and hence poor clotting. Even though I was actually in "great shape" according to St. Vincent's, the test beat me up pretty bad and I was ordered to stay in bed for the weekend when I got home.
So what did I actually have in 2002? GERD. (Acid Reflux) It took 4 trips to Norwalk Hospital in 13 days, including 2 overnight stays, countless visits by internists in training (I think I had bedside visits by doctors from every country in East Asia), X-Rays, CAT Scans, and who knows what else. On day 13, I was sitting up in bed and had a new symptom: suddenly my heart seemed to be on fire. My heart was burning!
D'oh! Heartburn!
Thirty minutes later, the doctor walked in and announced the diagnosis: Heartburn (Acid Reflux, GERD).
I watched the game on television.
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There was a studio analyst named Vera Jones, who works for the Big10 network now.
And Fran Harris, former Texas player.
(By the way, "African American" or "Black" are more widely accepted these days than "Afro-American".)
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Well, Afro-American or African-American, Fran Harris was the ONLY sports announcer to pronounce Svetlana Abrosimova's name correctly. And how did she manage that feat? Simple. She asked Sveta how she pronounced her family name, and Sveta taught Fran. This happened at the 2002 WBCA game that we've been discussing in this thread. The camera went live for the sideline interview a little bit early, just as Fran was doing a last check of her new-found skill, and Sveta nodded approvingly.
Oh, yeah - it's pronounced uh-BRO-sim-uh-vuh.
Well, Afro-American or African-American, Fran Harris was the ONLY sports announcer to pronounce Svetlana Abrosimova's name correctly. And how did she manage that feat? Simple. She asked Sveta how she pronounced her family name, and Sveta taught Fran. This happened at the 2002 WBCA game that we've been discussing in this thread. The camera went live for the sideline interview a little bit early, just as Fran was doing a last check of her new-found skill, and Sveta nodded approvingly.
Oh, yeah - it's pronounced uh-BRO-sim-uh-vuh.
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