Pax Arcana
Behold! The skies have parted and a mighty rain falls on the land this day, my friends! It is the rain of triumph over futility! It is the rain of victory over defeat!
It is the rain of a thousand lifetimes of strife being washed away!
For today, my friends, the mighty New Jersey Institute of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘basketball’
January 22, 2009
Yay New Jersey!
December 10, 2008
Name that movie
Pax Arcana
You may have read the story of 73-year-old Ken Mink, who returned to college basketball after a 50+ year hiatus from the sport. He is now the oldest player in any sport in the NCAA, and the most likely to walk around the locker room naked.
Over at Freakonomics, they’re holding a contest to see [...]
October 29, 2008
Boston is a Brotherhood
Pax Arcana
OK, so it’s an Adidas commercial. But its KG at his best — possibly under heavy sedation — preaching the truth about team sports and the virtue of the brotherhood.
Oh, and by the way, Perk is a Beast.
August 7, 2008
Marvin Gaye is the national anthem
Pax Arcana
The jury is still out on whether the US Olympic basketball team can reclaim its former glory in Beijing this summer, but one thing is certain — this Nike commercial almost made me forget that our squad is a bunch of pampered millionaires who should be embarrassed to finish with anything less than a [...]
June 10, 2008
Bill Plaschke is sensitive
Pax Arcana
Bill Plaschke is ostensibly a sportswriter for the L.A. Times, but really he’s a ceaseless campaigner for TV time on those ESPN wind-tunnel laboratories like Around the Horn. I would give him credit for coming across as smarter than Jay Mariotti, but that’s akin to giving credit to someone for not eating his [...]
June 6, 2008
Basketball Dirty Water: Game One
Pax Arcana
We’re more baseball than basketball over here, but please take a minute to catch up with Perk is a Beast on the occasion of the Celtics’ game one victory last night.
Here’s their typically measured assessment of the third quarter:
“Maybe the greatest twelve minutes of basketball played since Larry Bird had the ability to bend [...]
June 4, 2008
The Globe almost has this Web thing figured out…
Pax Arcana
Here is what famed Boston sports yahoo and pop culture enthusiast Bill Simmons has to say about the L.A. – Boston basketball rivalry in the most recent edition of ESPN the Magazine:
Boston beat L.A. for the title eight straight times before falling in 1985. If that’s a long-standing rivalry, so is Tom vs. Jerry, [...]
March 5, 2008
Niche post alert: Padre and Maine basketball
Father Scott
A veritable Cerberus of Maine basketball posting:
Left to right: Cheverus High School, future Bobcat Ryan Weston, the 2002 Brunswick Dragons
1. Last night Cheverus defeated the heavily favored Bangor Rams 49-41 to capture the Maine High School boys’ basketball crown. This definitely has a Giants/Pats vibe to it — there was a bunch of hype [...]
February 12, 2008
Brittney Griner will dominate you on the court
Pax Arcana
Meet Brittney Griner, a 6 foot 7 high schooler sure to make even basketball-averse crackers like myself start paying a bit more attention to women’s hoops. Not only can she dunk — she can dunk easily and impressively.
Awesome. Now if only we could find a way to have her dunk [...]
January 23, 2008
Who are we? Bobcats.
Father Scott
Now that Pax is shilling his alma mater, I thought it was appropriate to follow up my earlier post about the joys of NESCAC basketball (which PIAB bashed me for…and then posted about the joys of following random Massachusetts high school basketball teams…).
Going into the year I touted Bates’ women’s team as national title [...]
