<![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Fuck. The day there is finally a college basketball closer I'm not here to see it. And figures it's written by what seems to be yet another Duke hater. Here's a tip Jonah-it wasn't and isn't just Duke doing all the flopping.

Oh well, I'll take what I can get.

SA

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Cripes: How many times do I have to tell you -- she didn't go to Florida. She was born and raised in Gainesville. Jebus: Can't a guy get abused accurately?

dan shanoff

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Nice column, Keri, although the use of "cheesing off" is more than borderline douchey; not quite in the Shanoffian realm of obsessing over a football program because your wife went to school at said institution. Fuck the Gators!

Alonzo Mosely

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> So wait - Duke is to blame for refs calling more charging fouls across all of college basketball? Huh?

Eirishis

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> i look forward to not reading anything about Rutgers basketball on this blog. well, maybe a mention after they get run over by [insert any Big East team here] followed up with the brief conclusion "This could be the worst basketball team I've ever seen."

Upshaws Leash

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> What, no mention of the powerhouse that is THE Missouri State Bears?

LilJerrySeinfeld

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @ghostsoftheSCupcountry: I'd rather Will tried to summon Hunter S. Thompson in a post rather than read the schlock Simmons puts out regularly. Talk about being on tilt.
@The Old 717: Shanoff and Joni got here first, so methinks they're the Outsiders. You can decide who's who.
@Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!: +1, and it also sets up the Scoop Jackson as Syxx.

GreatOdensRaven

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @crgfyb: i think his schedule is pretty open.

SuperFrankieLampard

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @UpstateUnderdog: My wife went to college with Lamar and here is her quote about him: "Quiet kid; liked to smoke dope though."

BloggyMcBlogBlog

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Will should get Emmitt Smith to write a gardening closer.

"If I'm going to build my garden around one flower, I'm starting with the cranesbill."

StuScott Booyahs

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> I won't be happy until there's a Will Leitch's Book Tour Closer. Is Norman Mailer doing anything these days?

Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Old SSW: SSW by Weintraub
New SSW: College Basketball Closer by Keri
BUT WAIT, THERE'S LESS: More SSW by Weintraub

Satyr Icon

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Thanks gang, happy to be on board.

@Ah'm Tha Sharaff: Good call on Eric Gordon. I've seen Levance Fields hit the pull-up on occasion too. But few can do it well.

@Tomahawk Flop: +1 for the Weezer reference. +1000 for referencing the song that's also my cell phone ring.

Oh and sorry if I screw up these @ thingies, I'm new here.

Jonah Keri

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> YesNetwork.com? Let me guess, this was a piece about something great the Yankees did/are doing/will eventually do.

SlantedAndDisenchanted

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> BLACKBALLED BY ESPN! AND WILLING TO TAKE THEIR CASTOFFS!

Keri was the best baseball writer at ESPN.com, so I'm glad he's writing about college basketball for Deadspin. I'm all for original content, which is largely lacking around here.

Crookednose

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @HIV 2 Elway: Nice name...not a Stanford grad, huh? My Huskies are taking on the Cougs this Saturday...here's hoping for some Ryan Leaf magic.

The Walking Enigma

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Great, Rick Reilly in the Page 2 NWO. He'll be the Randy Savage of the group - another name added to a gimmick that has long since run its course. OHHHHHHH YYYYEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

7-8 Deville

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @Im a people person. Who drinks.: A-10 Pride. Affirmed.

Send It In, Jerome!

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Jonah, Will- thank you, thank you, a million times thank you. I know I'm not the only CB nerd here, but I might be one of the biggest. I look forward to reading it (more or less) daily.

THE hoi polloi

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @Vic Starsky: We could call it ABC- Always Be Closing.

Stev D

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @GreatOdensRaven: Given that analogy, Weintraub would be Horace Hogan.

Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> By now, Rafael Betancourt jokes should get old. I mean, it's friggin' January. But that hasn't happened.

Matt Sussman

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> I've been coming to Deadspin for a while now, and often, I laugh at a post, or a comment, but just as often, I think - "Post needs more Wiggum." Finally - a post delivers the USDA daily recommended amount of Wiggum. Well done overall, I especially liked all the A-10 love. (Though I was confused by the reference to the URI-Dayton game as a "local battle," though...)

Im a people person. Who drinks.

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> I'd be interested in writing a daily 24 College Ave. Closer...

Oh, Chet!

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Defenders should have to be set for three full seconds to draw a charge? Somebody misses the 140-135 games of yesteryear.

Thanks for mentioning my Ak-rowdies taking Dayton to the ropes...FYI, last year the Zips set a record for best W-L (26-7) and not getting invited to any postseason. Number of those 26 wins against the RPI top 50: 0. Looks like another year like that.

MrEleganza

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @GreatOdensRaven: so who is your kevin nash?

Mr. Pennsylvania

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @Sussmanzedah: Will tried that with Betancourt, but it took forever to read

Jerkwheat

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> PAC10 play starts tonight!

HIV 2 Elway

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> i'm carrying the whale.

this is a great addition- i can never keep up with all the goings-on of b-ball until march.

iHaveaRagingTebowner

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> What we need is a dominant setup man.

Matt Sussman

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @GreatOdensRaven: Personally, I think Will should re-run Hunter Thompson's Page2 stuff instead of Simmons. Hell, I'd rather read the SSW than Simmons.

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @Bruschis Brewsky: The sad thing is Lamar Odom didn't even play for the 98 final 8 team and URI has had more than one meaningful season. 4 NCAA appearances in the 90's.

UpstateUnderdog

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Thanks for all you've shown us Jonah, this is how we feel.

/Jonas

TomahawkFlop

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Fuck Jim Harrick and Jerry DeGregorio. Frank Keaney is smiling once again.

UpstateUnderdog

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Oustanding column, by the way.

StuScott Booyahs

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Doesn't this collection of Page 2 Writers of the Damned have a mid-90s, WCW-esque NWO takeover kinda feel to it now? I imagine we're all just waiting for Hulk Hogan (aka Simmons) to show up now to legitimize the whole thing.

GreatOdensRaven

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> I always get Jonah Keri and Jonah Hill mixed up.

Also, Jonah.

Rob Iracane

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Ahhh, URI, where they sold their soul to the retarded kid who can play the basketball real good for a solitary meaningful season.

Those were the days...

BruschisBrewsky

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> What is this, the home for battered Page 2 writers?

The people demand more closers!
I'm looking at you, Denny's PBA tour.

Pennington Noodlearm Enthusiast

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Is it March yet?

StuScott Booyahs

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Is Deadspin becoming a closer based website? I mean- more than it is now?

Stev D

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @pr0FF3ss0r_j3rkwh3at: Caple is going to write The Wacky Fake Sports News Closer where he makes up Wacky Fake Sports News and no one laughs.

Oh wait, he already does that at the WWL.

Rob Iracane

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> @Vic Starsky: John Papanek, apparently.

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Clarence Ceasar carried the E Street Band from '87-'93.

Also: JOENAR KERRY JOENAR KERRY JOENAR KERRY

/jumps on bed

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> To whom do I send my cover letter, headshot, writing sample and application to write the Closer Closer?

Vic Starsky

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Shanoff...Keri...

so help me God if Jim Caple shows up

Jerkwheat

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> So, Is Brian Roberts Dayton a girl in Eaton, or Eaton a girl in Dayton?

TomahawkFlop

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Jonah, Eric Gordon from IU can hit that pull-up jumper. But it's best not to mention his name.

Ah'm Tha Sharaff

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Hooray! Where's the love for Arkansas-Little Rock? (Please don't ban me)

roland_t_flakfizer

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> THIS IS AWESOME WITH A CAPITAL A.

TomahawkFlop

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> If I were in Dayton, I'd.....

/too late

Stay Away From Oprah

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> I'm Idaho! And I lost to New Mexico State last night.

Rob Iracane

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> If I were Dayton, I'd leave it at Orville & Wilbur & call it a day. No need to mention the douchebaggery wrought by mid-south Ohio. 'Cept maybe Greg Dulli, 'cause at least he got soul.

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Post to read comments again?

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> I never want you to speak of a pantless Jim Harrick again. It's about time for a CB closer. YAY!

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> Will choo choo chooses Jonah Keri to write the College Basketball closer?!?!?

Stay Away From Oprah

]]> <![CDATA[Introducing The College Basketball Closer]]> It was throwback night in NC last night, too?

I know the Lakers are trendsetters and all, but no need to actually bring back Jordan and his short shorts for a random January game

G Voll the Mole

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