Jay GreesonLet’s get to our business first.
Rushmore of schoolyard games: Capture the Flag, Freeze Tag, Dodgeball and Four square, but this was harder than I thought, and leaving kickball off pained me.
Rushmore of Kim Basinger movies: L.A. Confidential, 9 1/2 Weeks, The Natural and Batman.
Rushmore of Pearl: Sports division – Bruce Pearl, Earl the Pearl Monroe, A pearl (which is what we always called a new baseball), and former Syracuse point guard Dewayne “The Pearl” Washington, who was a dude back in the 1980s when Big Mondays on ESPN was a big deal. Non-sports division – Pearl Harbor, Minnie Pearl, Pearly Gates and Pearl Jam.
Rushmore of bowls: Bowling (at the alley), Toilet bowl, Rose Bowl, because it’s the granddaddy of ’em all, and since it’s Christmas, a bowl full of jelly.
Speaking of that, here’s the best link for the entry list for the annual “Bowling for Bowls of Bowl Game Success, Bowler Optional.” The games start late next week.
Here’s Paschall on Bryce Young standing on the edge of being Alabama’s first Heisman QB.
Here’s the link to the place to vote for the 2021 story of the year. Thoughts?
And a final tip of the visor to former UTC golf coach Mark Guhne, who has a hard argument of crafting if not the best UTC athletic program over the 2000s, certainly one that is in the team picture. Guhne announced that he’s retiring after 16 years.
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