<![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Another reason to root for Curry: he's got a big-time MILF.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> it's worth noting that exactly zero Memphis players would have passed my high school rule of "only hats pulled down and forward" rule...

asliceofbacon

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill: my grammy calls me a baby giraffe because i'm tall and lanky and still slightly awkward/uncoordinated.

I really hope this next game is going to be a good one...

Curry's mom? gorgeous.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Oh, I've been called freak of nature, too-tall, giraffe, T-Rex, Mt. Everest... I'm used to it by now.

Your bro may have another inch of growing to do, or even a little bit more if he was a late bloomer. For me I was always a little bit taller than the rest until I reached 15 years of age, which is when I had my growth spurt. I was all finished with the growing by the time I was 18, though.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Great, I have another reason to hate the state of Texas.
By the way, Rick Barnes is an overrated coach. Every year Texas underperforms in the tournament and fails to come up big.
Let's hope Stephen Curry makes sure there aren't 4 #1 seeds left after today.

VTBen

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> dorsey v. kevin love; rose v. collison; should be a good game

Jay L.

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I don't even know what my wingspan is. Probably what it should be.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I'm 6'0" with a 6'0" wingspan and guess what?... I still can't fly.

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill: How 'bout "freakishly tall"? But not in a bad way.

Baby 'roo is the babiest bro. He's still gots some growing to do though- he's only 18.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: I'm 6'8" with a... *DRUMROLL*... 6'8" wingspan. I was disappointed when they measured my wingspan back in HS, I always wanted to be called "freakishly long" by somebody.

Baby 'roo is your brother?

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill:oooh. that makes sense now. babiest 'roo has a 6'6" wing span at the moment but is only 6'4"

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> #15 on Memphis is a 39% free throw shooter. Exactly how many other benefits do you need to bring to the table to have a D1 program overlook a 39% free throw shot?

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Is Rick Barnes getting paid on an hourly basis? What the hell? Knock it off, Rick. We get it. You're competitive. You're Mister Competitive. In there competin'. Nice work outta you. Now get the hell off the stage.

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Secret Identity: Touche

/Also had a crush on Helen Hunt

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Kind of. He could have a 6'7" wingspan so that he has the reach of a 6'7" person in a 6'5" body.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @The Boy Wonder:
They stole it from Mel Gibson who stole it from Helen Hunt.

/had a crush on Helen Hunt

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Ian Mooney out there...he walked on at Saint Louis U for one year, then left after not getting any PT. Now he's played with DJ Augustin and Kevin Durant.

He lived next to two of my best friends in the dorm, and was NOT a nice guy.

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> In reference to the four #1's in the Final Four: These same #1's have been the benefactors of some very dubious foul calling practices all weekend (if not longer).

And did New Balance steal their most recent marketing ploy from Mel Gibson in What Women Want?

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I think running and I have an abusive relationship, if anything.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> "Even though he's listed at 6'5", because of the length he really plays at 6'7""

Does that even make sense?

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> D.J. Augustin is showing early symptoms of Little Man's Disease.

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> sooooo...there's baseball tonight, right?
/this game sucks

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Secret Identity: Oh. Um... Stephan Curry will slay the Hansbrough?

Token_Tennis_Fan

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Token_Tennis_Fan: @Secret Identity:

Although Memphis will be playing UCLA, not UNC.

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Token_Tennis_Fan:

Dorsey will call himself Goliath and Hansbrough David, unless someone has reminded him lately how that battle turned out.

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Was there talking during the game last night? I watched the entire thing on mute.

Like Tek, I love Barenaked Ladies

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> So Joey Dorsey is going to take Hansbrough's lunch money, right?

Token_Tennis_Fan

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Secret Identity: I'm so confused right now.

@Yostal: Wow, I oversimplified that.

I'll just go back to pretending Texas is going to make a comeback so as to still be interested in this game...

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @The Boy Wonder: What he said --> Secret Identity

I do think I heard him mutter something about "Great White Hope" and "successor to Larry Bird" under his breath.

@Secret Identity: While kicking Chuck Norris' and Tim Tebow's ass simultaneously.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo:

Half your age plus seven.

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: [www.slate.com]

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Secret Identity: While thats not as bad as it could have been, I suppose, its still good to know that pitting a college player in his prime against an obviously aging athlete 5 years removed from his most recent retirement is a sound way to measure competetiveness.

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Token_Tennis_Fan: there was a post about this! because i said it doesn't apply to me because girls aren't good at math and i think it was clare that yelled at me. no one?

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Secret Identity: Ohh... I need to remember that next time I try to pick up chicks.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Your formula is a myth.

Token_Tennis_Fan

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo:

I think that's how you determine if the girl is too young for you.

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> So what was that formula for leads and safety? If half the lead is greater than the number of minutes, you're golden?

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @The Boy Wonder:

Bilas said that he played against MJ, and MJ wasn't a more competitive player than Hansbrough. He didn't say Hansbrough was more competitive, because that's heresy, but it's basically what he meant. He also said Hansbrough's balls taste like exotic passionfruit.

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill:

He has sex with your girlfriend while shooting 4,200 jumpshots per day and solving complex murder mysteries.

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill: I was at a bar and a little shaken from some extremely unfriendly black jack tables last night, but did I hear someone compare Hansbrough in a favorable manner to MJ towards the end of the game?

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Secret Identity:
Jay Bilas, paraphrased:

"Did you guys know that Tyler Hansbrough is the hardest working human being to ever set foot on this planet? Nobody, from the ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia to the modern citizens of Planet Earth, has ever exerted more effort than Psycho T."

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I just set my fantasy lineup for tomorrow. I'm so excited.

Token_Tennis_Fan

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> It's still not clear to me why I want Grandpa Poppins to insure my home. Is it a shakedown scheme? Does he sit on my roof until I pay "insurance" money?

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Secret Identity: Or to announce David Padgett is a top-five prospect.

Token_Tennis_Fan

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Scout: Those are the things I like! Also there are beautiful mountains in the north, nice forests in the south... the Delaware Water Gap. Old forests. The industrialization has made the middle swath weird and kind of beautiful in a rundown rusting sort of way.

contains_hot_liquid

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Scout: I guess "we're right next to New York!!!!!!!" doesn't count?

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I am surprised Jay Bilas hasn't crashed the broadcast to tell us that Tyler Hansbrough doesn't ever take a play off, even in games where he's not playing.

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @contains_hot_liquid: Wait. The New England Pats are based in New Jersey right?

Scout

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @contains_hot_liquid: I've only heard about pollution and mob graveyards in New Jersey. What are some of the positive aspects of the state?

Scout

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @anonymouseducator:
Yes. In my defense, I am legally retarded.

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Thanks in part to the few that still promote Southern Hospitality, even though it is chock full of double entendres...and yes, the carpetbaggers (or Damn Yankees, as they call us here) have helped to raise the curve...

The Devil's Advocate

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Scout: I am from Jersey and I will defend it to the death. En garde, sir! ... Oh nice layup.

contains_hot_liquid

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> The Nantz slobbering continues.

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Yostal: thanks...makes sense when you follow the money...

The Devil's Advocate

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: I thought they were called carpetbaggers.

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Token_Tennis_Fan: There's plenty of yankee transplants.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @bizzo5000: Other way round, isn't it?

anonymouseducator

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill: New Jersey is a state that doesn't seem to have anything positive associated with it...

Scout

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: @Matt_T: If this is any consolation, most of the crazy people I've met here in the States are not originally from the South. They usually hail from New York/New Jersey.

There, now I've pissed 1/3 of the Deadspin readership.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @bizzo5000: When I think of West Virginia I automatically think "underage marriages". Can't they marry as young as 16 there? But I like West Virginia a lot because they split off from Virginia during the Civil War and rejoined/stayed with the Union.

Scout

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: True... there's probably three or four sane ones somewhere.

Token_Tennis_Fan

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Amen. Texas can't be considered the south, they don't have sweet tea.

Matt_T

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill: @Scout:
PA has been described as Pittsburgh in the east, Philly in the west and Mississippi in the middle.

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> To all you southern haters, we're not ALL crazy rednecks.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @StevePerryPsychOut: Agree, amazingly, Gordie only ever had one in his career. Brendan Shanahan has the unofficial record with 9.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @SunDevilDogg: Well, Indy gets it once every five years as a part of the deal they made to move the NCAA Headquarters there from Overland Park. Detroit made a huge push at the turn of the century to fill in Ford Field with big time events, so they landed the Super Bowl and the Final Four. The issue is, you need an indoor football stadium and those tend to be in the South and in the Midwest. Dallas will likely get one when ExxonMobil Stadium opens, the NCAA will likely want to go back to New Orleans when it gets a chance, and there was hope that the New Meadowlands would get one, but without a roof, that's not gonna happen.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @bizzo5000: Having lived in Atlanta for the past 11 years I can say that it doesn't "feel" like hicksville. As you go away from the big city, however, the "tooth-per-capita" ratio sharply decreases.

@StevePerryPsychOut: Never been West of Jawja myself.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Yostal: For what it's worth...I think that "The Gordie Howe Hat-Trick" is easily the best namesake that has ever been awarded to a former athlete.

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> This thread is kickin'.

Token_Tennis_Fan

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> On a side note: I pray I look as good and as spry as Gordie Howe when I turn 80 years old. Bless you Mr. Hockey!

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Scout:
What does all that make West Virgina?

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @StevePerryPsychOut: I just picture a really impatient coyote with a cigarette that is half ash dangling from his lips driving a minibus full of aliens dreaming of a new life stuck on a back road because a herd of cattle has moseyed their way partly across. He is just trying to get them to move.

/holy run on sentence Batman

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @SunDevilDogg: (in answer to your question about PHX getting the Regional final)

The Devil's Advocate

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Yostal: Yes, they do.

The Devil's Advocate

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Yostal: So it's: San Antonio, Detroit, Indianapolis, Houston? Are there issues with going east or west?

The Devil's Advocate

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @bizzo5000: This has been my experience:

Texas is the US geographical standard for "hick" and "cowboy". All of the John Wayne movies and "Dallas" spread this reputation far and wide.

Mississippi is the US geographical standard for "poverty" and "uneducated". A joke I heard: Missouri's state motto is Thank God we're not Mississippi.

Scout

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @The Boy Wonder: its on blocks in the tunnel. It does sound like they took the sound effects from Larry the Cable Guy's character in Cars.

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Memphis cheerleaders have 0 turnovers in the first half. Texas? 7. Maybe Coke should just back the hell off.

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @SunDevilDogg: They have a Regional Final next year, right?

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I love the VW Minibus horn that sounds anytime a substitution is made...it really sets the atmosphere.

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I find it hilarious that they're showing cheerleaders while saying, "Winning a scholarship with no skills?"

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> They just announced in PHX that the Pink Taco will be host to a two-game tournament next year (Louisville vs Minnesota; ASU vs BYU), in hopes to snag a Final Four...

The Devil's Advocate

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill: At least it has the Gulf Coast. I've personally never enjoyed being in Arkansas.

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill:
This is why I won't go south of Pittsburgh.

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Scout: Mississippi, on the other hand, makes the rest of the South look great by comparison.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @StevePerryPsychOut: I agree. I was shocked how "small" that the East Regional looked last night at a "regular" arena.

@SunDevilDogg: Yes, it does. And the Frozen Four in 2010.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @SunDevilDogg:
/burns city

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Yostal: Detroit has the Final Four next year?

The Devil's Advocate

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Scout:
So Texas is the fat chick in a group of hot chicks? It's like Ohio of the Midwest.

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Yostal: I would be if RCN deemed ESPNU as one of the 8 million channels that I receive...and I wasnt confident that the Eagles will pull off a stunning victory today only to collapse next week.

The Boy Wonder

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Yostal: I like the backdrop that it provides for TV viewing. The background in't as busy.

Also...would someone ecourage "the other three" UT guys to show up? They look awful.

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @bizzo5000: Hey! Texas is the only reason Tennessee and Kentucky look as good as they do.

Scout

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Yostal:
I really hope they do this with football too and make it 10' high. It'll be the last time someone runs out of bounds instead of taking the hit.

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Clare: I was about to say that. Those chicks are beastly.

Le Kangourou de Kataroo

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Tuffy: We're discussing now. It's looking good.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Oh great!! We get to hear Nantz slobber all over the Bushes.

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Clare: It's all done with wires. Wires and BBQ.

@Scout: Don't throw a log on us now.

@Yostal: Maybe. Check your Hoover mail, please.

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Brazil Thrill:
Please god, let them.

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @bizzo5000: Yes, it's a new NCAA experiment to try the elevated court to a). create a better experience in the football stadia for the Final Four (Ford Field and Reliant will host the 2009 and 2011 Final Fours, and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in 2010 will likely have the same configuration.)
b). sell more tickets by basically being allowed to sell every seat in the house instead of curtaining off a section of the stadium.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Kirby approves that Texs photo.

My Government Name is Berto, But My Spiritual Name is BRONZE NAZARETH

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Larry Kilgore just made an announcement: Texas is prepared to secede from the Union if the Longhorns don't take care of business today.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> In honor of our Longhorn friends:
[bp3.blogger.com]

/doesn't know how to relabel a link

The Devil's Advocate

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Was it ever explained why the court is like a Def Leopard theater-in-the-round?

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I actually caught the end of the North Dakota game yesterday. I couldn't believe that they were showing college hockey on TV in Florida

Billy Ds Widows Peak

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> When I say I'd like to put a smile on my face, that Texas picture is typically what I have in mind.

SagerBombs

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @UkraineNotWeak: just a bit pouty.

Scout

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Good afternoon all. Is everyone excited for North Dakota/Wisconsin and Miami (Original Recipe)/Boston College?

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I've never seen Texas look so slow or small. They're making Memphis look like monsters...scratch that, they're making Memphis look like Monstars

Billy Ds Widows Peak

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Scout:

Still bitter?

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> @Tuffy: Texas A&M would've been classier.

/bad sport

Scout

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> I'm impressed that those Memphis cheerleaders girls are holding up the other girls unassisted.

Clare

]]> <![CDATA[Your Texas-Memphis Live Blog]]> Nice work by Texas to cut the bleeder again. Very Ragin' Longhorn of 'em.

Tuffy

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