Dynamic innovator. Staunch iconoclast. Spunky boffin.
Kyle Whelliston was all of these things and so much more. Over the course of thirty-one years, he wrote 2,373 articles and essays for various online and print publications, as well as some books. As per his last will and testament, all 2,928,166 of his life's words have been collected here, in one place, for eternal posterity. Keep his flame alive. This is the Whelliston Memorial Library.
Good Morning Hoops Nation - November 12
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- When I switched on the local TV this morning, there was a reel of clips from a Murray State exhibition game, the Racers were beating up on Bethel College. In the inbox, news that Stephen Curry had lit up the scoreboard for 41 points.. iin a non-counter against Lenoir-Rhyne (eight turnovers? hmmm...). The season has started, but it hasn't.
Bally Gras (and Other Delights)
In honor of Fat Tuesday, here's Bally with a king cake on a recent Louisiana trip to Northwestern State. The plastic baby is usually hidden in the cake somewhere, and whomever gets the piece containing it is the king and has to buy the cake for the next party as proof of his (or her) ultimate Mardi Gras benevolence.
Coffee Break
A few weeks back, I was catching up with an old aquaintance from my days out at Oregon. He was telling me about this wedding he went to last summer in western Massachusetts. I was made to understand that it was all quite the hassle - the tarmac-only airports, quaint local customs and medieval food choices made New England seem like a whole 'nother country.
The Mythology
We saw the great Michael Jordan play basketball with our own eyes. Just once, only once. It was November 17, 2002, and we paid some guy outside the Broad Street subway station in Philadelphia 20 dollars for a ticket that wasn't as good as he said it was. It was a mundane early-season matchup, one that was fundamentally over by halftime.
The Business Of Preseason Tourneys
It was early January 2006. The University of Texas had just wrapped up its football championship in dramatic fashion against USC in a game for the ages, and college fans’ attention turned to the basketball conference races that had just begun.