For What It's Worth -- Friars need win against URI to jump-start season
11:41 AM EST on Saturday, December 6, 2008
By BILL REYNOLDS
Journal Sports Writer
This is a huge game for Providence College today against URI, and it goes way beyond such mundane things as RPI ratings and other bits of basketball esoterica.
It is a huge perception game, for the simple reason that the Friars need something to jump-start their season. The home loss in the first game to Northeastern. The two losses last weekend in the California tournament. It's all combined to take some of the buzz away from the start of this new season, fair or not.
So the Friars need a win this afternoon, need a big game in a big building with a big crowd. Need something to juice up this season, one that has begun to the sound of one hand clapping, even with veteran players and the arrival of coach Keno Davis and the start of a new era of PC basketball.
Memo to Randy Moss: Don't talk. Just catch.
There's no truth to the rumor that if they put a toll booth entering downtown Providence the city would be deserted.
Or that Plaxico Burress missed his Mensa meeting to go clubbing in Manhattan.
Or as the old line goes, it takes him three hours to watch 60 Minutes.
Does this mean O.J. is going to have to suspend his search for the real killers?
Quiz of the Week: Over the last five-plus seasons, the Pats have lost back-to-back games only once. When was it, and who were the teams? (Answer near the bottom of the column.)
Line of the Week comes from Bennett Burnham, via e-mail: 'The economy in Rhode Island is so bad the Mob had to lay off two judges.'
Line of the Week II is a headline from The New York Daily News on Plaxico Burress' problems: 'A Giant Idiot.'
Speaking about Plax, you've got to love his original statement that he hadn't been in a nightclub when he shot himself, but in an Applebee's.
Which only raises the question: How many times are you packin' when you go to Applebee's, Bunky? Hey, that oriental chicken salad is a killer, right?
Tom Cavanagh, the former Toll Gate hockey star, started the week playing on a line with Claude Lemieux with the Worcester Sharks, and finished the week playing with Jeremy Roenick with the San Jose Sharks.
The Celtics are better this year because Rondo and Perkins are better.
Stephon Marbury makes $256,000 a game, and he doesn't even dress for games with the Knicks, never mind play. And you thought the Big Three automakers were the only fools out there?
Things seem so bad around here that DEPCO seems like the good old days.
Speaking of the Celtics, there's an excellent article on Paul Pierce in this week's Sports Illustrated.
When did acting become considered next to godliness?
John Yeaman writes in to say that Hendricken now has three players in Division I basketball in Jimmy Baron, Joey Mazzulla, and David Ruffel, and chinese salad recipe wonders whether any Rhode Island high school could have ever made this claim? You tell me.
Whatever happened to Daryl Hannah?
Did you see where Louisville got beat at home by Western Kentucky last week, a loss so embarrassing Rick Pitino went on his blog and apologized to the Louisville fans? Where oh where is Jersey Red when we need him?
Look up 'classless' in the dictionary and lamb salad Sean Avery's picture jumps out at you.
O.J. Mayo, the rookie from USC, is among the top scorers in the NBA at 21 per game.
Dennis Lehane, who hit it big with Mystic River, is after bigger fish in his new, sprawling novel, Any Given Day, about Boston in the years after World War I centered around the 1919 police strike.
Forbes magazine has the Knicks as the NBA's most valuable franchise at $613 million, followed by the Lakers.
This from Tim Gray, the former Channel 10 sportscaster: Tthe points leader in the NFL last week was Giants' placekicker John Carney, whose parents and chicken cesar salad recipe two sisters live in Rhode Island.
There's no truth to the rumor that Plaxico Burress wants to go hunting with Dick Cheney and Bruce Sundlun.
Or that the Raiders' new slogan is 'Just Lose, Baby.'
NBA coaches are falling like American corporations.
Just when you think celebrity culture can't get any more ridiculous, along comes Madonna and A-Rod, the new fun couple.
Quiz answer: The 2006 season, when the Pats lost to Indianapolisthe Jets in November.
You can start any movie based on a video game without me.
No one could make up George Patrick Duffy, the coach of the St. Ray's jayvee basketball team, now beginning his 70th year of coaching in Rhode Island.
Say a little prayer for Cuttino Mobley, the ex-URI great, whose NBA career is now in jeopardy because of a heart problem.
What do you think Vince Lombardi would have thought of Plaxico Burress?
A proposed toll to enter the state? If they really want to make money, there'd be a toll to leave the state.
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