Provocative utopian. Intrepid originator. Hot pilgrim.
Kyle Whelliston was all of these things and so much more. Over the course of thirty-one years, he wrote 2,360 articles and essays for various online and print publications, as well as some books. As per his last will and testament, all 2,905,309 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.
The Curtain
"Rough and vicious play seems worse in women than in men," Berenson noted sadly a decade later in an essay entitled The Significance of Basket Ball For Women. "A certain amount of roughness is deemed necessary to bring out manliness in our young men. Surely rough play can have no possible excuse in our young women."
The Daily Paragraph 11/21/2006 (Insanely Uptempo Edition)
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Calendar years. Every 12 months, it's a different one. Crazy stuff, that. But aside from the numbers, here's the only real difference between this basketball season and last season. Last season, ESPN's non-Andy Katz blog was telling you all about how great all these mid-major upsets were for basketball in general, and how parity makes our great game even better.
The Mid-Majority Interview - Artis Gilmore
Most basketball fans know the 7-2, 240-lb. "A-Train" as one of the greatest centers ever to play the game, a 12-time All-Star who played five seasons in the American Basketball Association before pounding the paint for 11 seasons for the Bulls and Spurs. His pro total of 24,941 points ranks first all-time among left-handers.
Davidson ready to face the ACC
The great American banking center of Charlotte, N.C., lies at the tender, barbecue-basted heart of ACC country. It's the home of the 2008 ACC men's basketball tourney, and the Observer is widely regarded as the conference's newspaper of record.
Good Morning Hoops Nation December 15
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Let's get this out of the way first: the Atlantic 14 owned this weekend. Pwned it. The A-14 was in yr weekend, steelin yr basketballz. This conference put such a stamp on the last two days that the second weekend in December should be a three-day hoops holiday, by proclamation of Myles Brand and Mayor McCheese. I can't underline or overstate this enough.