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Liberty wins + appearance
The New York Liberty won the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals. It was an ugly win. An ugly game. The only grace notes were Deanna Nolan's gorgeous shooting---I swear she stays up in the air for seconds at a time, she looks great even when she misses---the great turnout, and the fact that we won. I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Bill Laimbeer more than I do. But his performance tonight pushed my hate a few notches upward. How he managed not to get a delay of game call or a technical I will never understand. Sit down, Bill! Later today I will be in Larchmont, which is a mere twenty minutes from Grand Central: Saturday, ...Posted by Justine at 0:27, September 27th, 2008 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Sport | 3 Comments »
A most excellent day
Posted by Justine at 12:40, September 23rd, 2008 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liar Book, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Writing goals & milestones, Young Adult literature | 7 Comments »
I wish I had studied maths
I stopped studying maths in Year 7. Before that I'd made a bit of an effort but in my first year of high school (in New South Wales high school starts in Year 7) I downed tools. I was bored, annoyed, and couldn't see the point so I quit. Technically I kept going to maths class---it was compulsory until the end of Year 10---but I failed each year and was never made to repeat. I didn't learn anything new after Year 6. At the time I thought it was excellent that I could get away with it. In class I read novels under the desk. I never studied and finished my maths exams quicker than anyone else cause I guessed all ...Posted by Justine at 0:00, September 9th, 2008 under Basketball, Bloggery, Excuses, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Science, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia | 20 Comments »
From an undisclosed location
Scott and me has run away to finish our novels at an undisclosed location. Posting from behind the walls of our hidden bunker may be intermittent and on the shortish side. Book must be finished on the soonish. In the meantime, it is conclusive, "monster" and "white-ant" are verbs only in Australia. For confused non-Australians a white ant is a termite. Thus to white-ant someone is to undermine them: to bore away at their foundations, you know, like termites do. Is most useful verb. Thanks for the Cadel Evans commiserations. Second two years running. Surely next year. Yes, I is stoked that the Liberty are in the second place in the Eastern conference. Here's hoping we come out after the Olympics break ...Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 29th, 2008 under Basketball, Bloggery, Liar Book, Sport, Tour de France, Travelling | 5 Comments »
I got what I wanted (Updated)
Candace Parker played. She played very well indeed. I was impressed. ((She's not dirty in defence unlike, say, Lisa Leslie or Delisha Milton-Jones.)) And WE WON!! And we are now a mere game out of first place in the East. Life is very good indeed. Thank you, New York Liberty, for improving in so many different ways. We have post players. We have two good point guards. We have DE-FENCE. In fact, other than Indiana, I think we're the best defensive team in the WNBA. I love our full-court pressure. I love the many ways we made LA turn over the ball. Twas bliss. Now all we have to do is shoot a bit better and we'll be perfect. Too exhausted ...Posted by Justine at 0:47, July 26th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport | 5 Comments »
I am happy (Updated)
The WNBA has handed down the suspensions for Tuesday's brawl. I know many are unhappy about the lenience towards Candace Parker in particular. But for extremely selfish reasons I am very very very glad. Because this means I get to see her play on Friday. Woo hoo! What's making me cranky is the total absence of anything said about the abysmal refs. Where's their punishment? Update: Though I'll admit I am very nervous about Leslie and Parker being so rested before we play then in the Garden.Posted by Justine at 16:41, July 24th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport, State of the World | 3 Comments »
Quick stuff
Posted by Justine at 11:55, July 23rd, 2008 under Basketball, Liar Book, Sport | 3 Comments »
Upset
I just watched a hard fought game between the LA Sparks and Detroit Shock that ended in a real fight. The ending was horrible with three players and one coach ejected and, I'm sure, lots of unwelcome attention from the press which ordinarily completely ignores the WNBA. Gosh, maybe now even the New York Times will cover a game. I was most shocked by Detroit Assistant Coach Mahorn, who is male and well over 7ft tall 6ft 10inches, pushing over Lisa Leslie. He needs to be suspended for the rest of the season. You do not touch the opposing team's players ever. Under any circumstances. But mostly I blame the referees. There were several incidents leading up to the fight between ...Posted by Justine at 22:26, July 22nd, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Ranting, Sport, State of the World | 16 Comments »
Congratulations, Atlanta
Atlanta Dream: 91; Chicago Sky: 84 The first win for the Atlanta Dream has made me very happy I can't imagine how thrilled the Dream fans are. They have had the longest losing streak (0-17) in WNBA history without actually being a bad team. Quite a few of those losses were thrillers. I know. I watched the game where the New York Liberty barely beat them. I think it's astonishing and wonderful that more than 8,000 people have shown up for every one of those games even when they'd lost ten, fifteen, seventeen in a row. And now they have their first win. Woo hoo!! And w00t! It's good for Atlanta and it's good for the whole league. May it be ...Posted by Justine at 21:52, July 5th, 2008 under Basketball, Praising, Sport | 2 Comments »
Charlie haz face!
Posted by Justine at 0:00, June 25th, 2008 under Basketball, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Sport | 21 Comments »
New York Liberty RULE
New York Liberty: 105 Phoenix Mercury: 72 BEST GAME EVER Without Penny Taylor the Mercury are nothing. We held them to their season low. We shut Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter down. I love my team. That is all. Well, except that WE REALLY REALLY REALLY rule. Did I mention I love the New York Liberty?Posted by Justine at 23:14, June 22nd, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport | 5 Comments »
Goose meet gander
Apropos of Becky Hammon playing for Russia comes this article from The New York Times about all the foreign nationals that are playing for the US Olympic squad: Marching into Beijing Stadium under the American flag this August will be a kayaker from Poland, table tennis players from China, a triathlete from New Zealand, a world-champion distance runner from Kenya and a gold-medal-winning equestrian from Australia. Though I am shocked, SHOCKED to my core, that an Australia would desert our fine country to play for another nation especially when they're a good shot a gold medal. How are we going to keep coming third in the Olympics despite our small population if the big countries steal all our Olympians? Huh? ...Posted by Justine at 0:00, June 15th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport, State of the World | 7 Comments »
Becky Hammon becomes Russian
There's controversy right now in US women's basketball because an American player, Becky Hammon, is going to play for Russia in the Olymics. The coach of the US Olympic squad, Anne Donovan, has called her a traitor. Others have different views: like how can Becky be a traitor when she was never asked to try out for the US squad despite putting up MVP (most valuable player) numbers and being one of the best guards in the world? Mechelle Voepel writes a very smart and nuanced article about the furore: It's all fascinating to me on a lot of levels because it has made me think about so many things: what the Olympics really are, the ways the world has ...Posted by Justine at 12:32, June 7th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, State of the World, Sydney/Australia | 8 Comments »
Why can’t I be Guest of Honour all the time?
I will confess that I was nervous about going to High Voltage ConFusion. There were several reasons for this: I'm afraid of cold places. And Detroit in winter is COLD. ((How cold? Minus a million cold! That's how cold. So cold that I'm back in NYC and it's freezing and it seems warm in comparison.)) I'd never been a guest of honour before and was worried I'd be crappy at it. I was aware that most of the people at the con would not have heard of me or Scott and was worried that they would feel dudded of a proper author guest of honour what wrote adult sf and fantasy. I need not have had any concerns at all. I was right ...Posted by Justine at 0:00, January 24th, 2008 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Travelling, Vainglory, Viewing | 15 Comments »
Not that anyone asked . . .
Posted by Justine at 9:55, November 13th, 2007 under Basketball, Bloggery, New York City/USA, Praising, Publishing business, Ranting, Sport, State of the World | 9 Comments »
Fans rule
Day 11 of the tour: Tonight's appearance at Books Inc (Opera Plaza) was fabulous. Lots of rabid, smart, enthusiastic Scott fans and passionate arguments about David/Zane. For the record I like Zane better than David but prefer Shay to either one of them. The most wonderful part of the evening for me was meeting London, who's a guy from Sacramento, who drove all the way to San Francisco (which is at least two hours!) to tell me how much he loves my books. Isn't that awesome? Also turns out he's a Sacramento Monarchs fan and has even met their big star Yolanda Griffiths. I was deeply impressed and we got to talk women's hoops which always makes me happy. Equally happy making ...Posted by Justine at 2:49, October 10th, 2007 under Basketball, Fans & readers, Scott's books, Travelling | 11 Comments »
Woo hoo Phoenix!
Phoenix won the WNBA finals. I am so very happy. I LOVE their style of play. I love Penny Taylor and Cappie Pondexter and Kelly Miller and Diana Taurasi. They are awesomeness personified. They SO deserved to win. And Detroit totally dogged it. They have not looked that good these playoffs. They barely got past the New York Liberty. Same against Indiana. They did not deserve to win overall. Plus Bill Laimbeer drives me insane. That said Deanna Nolan is probably the most gorgeous shooter I have ever seen. I'd happily watch her play all day long. And Cheryl Ford is crazy strong and brave. Next year the Liberty are going to knock Detroit out. Oh, yes, we will!Posted by Justine at 7:58, September 17th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport | 6 Comments »
Uni***ns + High School Musical
Libba Bray ((and since I'm mentioning Libba I should also mention that Maureen Johnson is not the only one to have already read The Sweet Far Thing. That's right! Me too. It is deeply awesome. The best of the trilogy.)) is the best friend a girl could have. Look what she done gived me: I screamed. Do you notice the choking hazard warning? And that the evil uni***n is call "Destructicorn"? Happy sigh. Have any of you seen High School Musical? I think it may be the most conflict-free movie I've ever watched. Quite astonishing. I admit I was a tad disappointed by the choreography. The dance sequences were much better in She's the Man. Also how ...Posted by Justine at 13:45, September 15th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport, Unicorns, Viewing | 20 Comments »
DragonCon Blues + Urban legends
The worst thing about DragonCon---other than the way too many people thing---is that it's on the exact same weekend as the WNBA conference finals. I missed seeing Phoenix sweep San Antonio (woo hoo! Amy---sorry, Rebecca) and will miss all the Indiana-Detroit games (please Indiana win tonight!) Seeing all those insanely brilliant costumes is some compensation I suppose. Riding on the train with Holly, Theo, Cassandra, Maureen and Scott ditto. Sitting around in a hotel room with them telling ghost stories also not too foul. Which reminds me what are your favourite urban legends? Feel free to leave a link in the comments if you don't feel like telling the whole thing. So far we've done the finger nails one, the hook, the ...Posted by Justine at 8:47, September 3rd, 2007 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Whingeing | 8 Comments »
So far so good
Three quarters of the WNBA playoffs have gone exactly how I want them to. Phoenix beat Seattle (two Aussies against one); Indiana beat Connecticut (one Aussie against Satan's own team); San Antonio beat Sacramento (one Aussie---assistant coach Sandy Brondello + 2 ex-Liberty stars against no Aussies and no ex-Libs). Now we just have to beat Detroit and my basketball year will be complete. Seriously, I didn't think we'd make the post-season so for the Liberty to get past the first round would be a second miracle. I love what Shamika Christon, Janel McCarville and Loree Moore have been doing in the post-season. I'm so stoked for the 2008 season. The New York Liberty is going to be insanely good. This year's WNBA ...Posted by Justine at 23:19, August 27th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport | 7 Comments »
(Frivolous) things I hate
Because today I must share the negativity, a list of my current hates: Referees who only seem to see the fouls committed by my team Bill Laimbeer ((Though I do love hating him. Don't ever change, Bill! You were eerily calm and unaggro during today's game. A game where you don't get a technical foul is a just plain wrong.)) Friends who are always late---especially when we're meeting for dinner and I'm starving and the stupid restaurant won't seat us until the entire party is there Restaurants that won't seat you until the entire party is there---What gives? The table is empty and just sitting there. We'll order stuff. Lots of it! You'll make more money off us if you seat us straight away. ...Posted by Justine at 17:48, August 26th, 2007 under Basketball, Ranting, Sport | 17 Comments »
Woooo hoooo!!!!!
Can you hear that screaming? That's me yelling myself hoarse with joy because we beat Detroit in Madison Square Garden last night. BEST. GAME. EVER. Almost all the punters predicted Detroit would sweep us. Ha ha ha! Instead Detroit played awful. It was like they'd been cursed. And after an awkward messy first half we played great. Of course mean old Bill Laimbeer didn't say a word about how well the Liberty played he just went on about his own team's suckiness. Whose fault is that, Bill? Now I think we're a more than even chance to take Detroit on their home court and I'm cranky that me and Scott're going to be at smelly DragonCon cause it means we will ...Posted by Justine at 9:59, August 25th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport | 9 Comments »
Let’s go, Liberty!
Washington won their game which meant they were one game ahead of us, but we won our game, which meant we're tied, but we've beaten them 3 times this year so we go through to the playoffs! YAY!!!!! Let's go, Liberty!!!Posted by Justine at 18:55, August 19th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport | 3 Comments »
Liberty rollercoaster
I've been a New York Liberty season ticket holder since 2003 (though I saw my first game in 2000) and this year has definitely been the most discombobulating. We started off with that 5-0 winning streak then later in the season we had the horrific 0-7 streak and looked to be no chance for the playoffs. Yet here we are one game left and if we win we're in. In fact, even if we lose we could still make the post season---if the Washington Mystics lose their game. This year I have seen the Liberty lose an astonishing number of games they should have won. They'd have a lead at the end of the first ...Posted by Justine at 10:39, August 18th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport | 13 Comments »
Lauren Jackson
My favourite basketballer in the entire universe is Lauren Jackson, which every so often puts me in the weird position of barracking for the team she's playing against. See, I'm a New York Liberty fan and she plays for the Seattle Storm, which very confusingly has the same colours as Australia (green and gold). Last Sunday her team narrowly beat my team, and on the one hand, I was deeply bummed---it was so close! We almost had them!---on the other hand, damn she's a fine fine player. And, oh, how much I love watching her play. I just prefer, you know, when she's playing for the Opals and they're winning the world championships. How ...Posted by Justine at 0:09, July 24th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport | 8 Comments »
The Tour
Marrije asked over on insideadog if I'll be following the Tour de France this year. Sadly, I will not. This year has gotten out of control. I cannot afford to spend hours every day watching the Tour and following it online. I am incapable of following the Tour non-obsessively. So for the first time in years I'm not following it at all. (No spousal pressure was brought to bear in the making of this decision. Well, okay, just a little bit. I am not husband-beaten! I am not!) Waaaahh!!!!! The New York Liberty (10-8) will have to sustain my sport-following needs this northern summer. And now I go back to the myriad tasks that confront me. At this point it's so bad I'm resorting ...Posted by Justine at 12:02, July 9th, 2007 under Basketball, Sport, Tour de France, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones | 17 Comments »
New York Times suckage
New York has a sports team that's opened its season with a five game winning streak, despite not even making the playoffs last year and no longer having its best and most popular player. How many column inches has the New York Times given this remarkable performance? Pretty much none. Unless you count the teeny tiny AP reports. This is because the team is the New York Liberty and it's a women's team. The New York Times is incapable of covering women's basketball unless it's a profile of a male coach. Especially if that male coach is ex-NBA and coaches a non-New York team. The New York Daily has no problem covering the Liberty nor does the ...Posted by Justine at 11:06, June 6th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Ranting, Sport | 7 Comments »
Sometimes basketball makes me cry
Today at the New York Liberty versus Phoenix Mercury game (we won!) the Rutger's women's team stood in the middle of the court during one of the breaks. We gave them a standing ovation, stamping, and clapping and yelling for them. At every timeout thereafer they were beseiged by well-wishers and autograph seekers. They may not have won last years' finals but they definitely won the battle against racist radio announcers. Yay! Kay Yow one of the greatest coaches of women's basketball ever and Vivian Stringer the fabulous coach of Rutgers were also there. So was Teresa Weatherspoon the best pointguard the Liberty has ever had. All were applauded and mobbed for autographs. It made me so happy. ...Posted by Justine at 20:41, June 3rd, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Viewing | 10 Comments »
Genetic gifts
I seem to have rolled out of the ranty side of the bed every morning this week. First I was peeing on the eighties and now I am cranky on account of a particularly stupid thing that was said to me about basketball. Viz, "I can't stand basketball. It's just a bunch overpaid genetic freaks running around with a ball. Who cares?" As I had just been talking about the joys of my season tickets to the New York Liberty, I clearly care, and you, Mr Shorty Bald man, were being very rude. I poke my tongue out at you! But that's not what's raised my ire, nope, it's the phrase "genetic freaks". So, what are you supposed to do if you're naturally good ...Posted by Justine at 0:03, April 25th, 2007 under Basketball, Ranting, Sport | 12 Comments »
Dope, proofs, hoops, words
Posted by Justine at 9:21, September 29th, 2006 under Basketball, Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Praising, Reading, Sport, Whingeing, Words & Language | 4 Comments »
Why do you like sport?
This is not a question I get asked very much. Not directly, anyway, but every single time I post about sport someone writes and asks me when I'm going to post about interesting topics again. That's right, the biggest complaint I get from you, dear readers, is that I talk about sport too much. (( It's particularly weird as I've hardly blogged sport at all this year. Very little mention of cricket, the World Cup, or the Tour de France; pretty much nothing about the Liberty's unhappy WNBA season, and hardly any mention of all the various Australian triumphs this year. I've been busy, okay?)) Now I ain't never gonna stop writing about sport, no matter how many of you are ...Posted by Justine at 0:03, September 26th, 2006 under Basketball, Cricket, Fans & readers, Sport, Tour de France | 21 Comments »
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
We won! For the first time ever we won the world championships of women's basketball!! Penny Taylor was awesome! As was Kristy Harrower and Lauren Jackson! (Picture purloined from abc.net.au) I am so very very very very very happy! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!Posted by Justine at 14:44, September 23rd, 2006 under Basketball, Sport | 2 Comments »
Tell me stuff (updated)
You are correct that I have not been blogging much or responding to comments like I usually do or even responding to email a whole lot. The reason is that I'm on a deadline (yes, the same one, yes, it was moved again, yes I really have to meet this one) and am working my arse off. (Oh, how I miss my arse!) In the meantime I think you lot should entertain me. Here are some questions: Does anyone have any recs for best brunch place in NYC? Who's going to be the first Australian to win the Tour de France (no, it doesn't have to be this year)? What's the best book you've read lately? I just read Out by Natuso Kirino. Loved it. ...Posted by Justine at 11:18, July 16th, 2006 under Basketball, Bloggery, Excuses, Fashion, Food, Frippery, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Reading, Sport, Tour de France | 41 Comments »
Sheryl Swoopes
Good on ya, Sheryl! Photo by Lorenzo PescePosted by Justine at 18:48, October 26th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport, State of the World | 1 Comment »
Wow
Posted by Justine at 13:43, October 20th, 2005 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, Cricket, Food, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liquids, Listening, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Scott's books, Sport, Travelling, Words & Language, Young Adult literature | 9 Comments »
Bludge Day
Bugger writing, I'm off to see the dinosaurs with Scott and Cat. Someone else loves the Liberty almost as much as I do. Our Shane's talking big about us crushing England in the fourth test. On ya, Shane! Enjoy your day. See youse later!Posted by Justine at 10:26, August 24th, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, New York City/USA, Sport, Viewing | 10 Comments »
I Successfully Predict the Future
A month back I confidently announced that the New York Liberty would make the 2005 WNBA playoff season. This has now come to pass. The Liberty are on a five-game winning streak despite having lost Anne Wauters, one of their top performers this year. Now it's just a battle to see whether we get homecourt advantage or not. Here's to our winning streak going on and on all the way to the WNBA finals. I also predicted that Australia will win the Ashes and like Michael Slater I'm sticking to that prediction. Nor do I have any of his "healthy" doubt. It'll be tough but we will do it. Thursday sees the beginning of the fourth ...Posted by Justine at 9:49, August 22nd, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, Sport | 5 Comments »
What I Learned Today
Miyazaki's Spirited Away is, and I quote, "too scary! too scary! too scary!" for two year olds. At first Marlowe was enchanted. Then it got dark, the parents turned into pigs, and demons started appearing out of nowhere. And that was the end of Spirited Away for Marlowe. "Too scary! Too scary! Too scary!" Never give up on the Liberty. They always come back in the second half. (Unless they don't.) Um, Coach Coyle? How come Erin Thorne got more minutes than Shameka Christon? Never give up on the Australian men's cricket team (not that I didn't already know that). Yeah, yeah, England have declared. Yeah, yeah it would be a miracle to get four hundred on ...Posted by Justine at 19:38, August 14th, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, Liquids, Sport, Viewing | 108 Comments »
Crowds = Good
Watched the New York Liberty beat the Charlotte Sting in double overtime last night. Wonderful close fought game, which you wouldn't expect given that Charlotte have only won four games this season and are already out of playoff contention. But they've got a new coach---the glorious Muggsy Bogues (whose height is anywhere between 4ft 11 and 5ft 3 depending on who you ask---whatever---for an ex-NBA player he ain't tall)---and many amazing players: Sheri Sam, Helen Darling, Tangela Smith, Tammy Sutton-Brown. I think I know one of the reasons the Sting have been having such a rotten run. There was almost no crowd. The arena in Charlotte was echoingly empty. Surely having almost no-one ...Posted by Justine at 13:22, August 13th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport | Comments Off
A Most Excellent Sunday
Yes, this is more about sport. Look, I know many of you can't stand sport, but I don't care (feel free to stop telling me about your lack of interest). Sport---and I'm talking watching it, not doing it---has been keeping me from burning down buildings since I was a wee thing. I've a sports brain. I am obsessed. Come the Olympics and I can barely leave the house. (Yes, I like to play some sports too: tennis mostly and not very well. I have a long legacy of sports played and abandoned---largely through injury.) I love following a particular team, knowing its history, the players, the management, the gossip. I love knowing the ins and outs of a particular sport, ...Posted by Justine at 20:18, July 24th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport | 1 Comment »
Going Out on a Limb
The New York Liberty are gonna make the playoffs. There, that's my money on the table. My team is gonna figure in the postseason. They're looking absolutely bloody amazing at the moment. Elena Baranova has come good, blocking, rebounding, being incredible in defence, hell, even Erin Thorne looked good last night. The Liberty just won two games back to back on the road, and last night against the Sacramento Monarchs they were magnificent, never looking like they were going to do anything but win (we'll just ignore the last two shambolic minutes). On a good day my team can beat any other team in the league; and, yeah, on a bad day they can lose to ...Posted by Justine at 11:13, July 23rd, 2005 under Basketball, Sport | Comments Off
Bibs and Bobs
Working hard thus am not so bloggery as usual. Other than the novel I'm writing here's what's up in Justineland: Daphne Lee has posted the unedited (and illustrated) version of her interview with me where I persist in getting the name of Samantha from Bewitched's grandmother wrong (got all that?). Daphne reports that Magic or Madness sold out in Kuala Lumpur the week the interview appeared in The Star. How stupendous is that? Last night the New York Liberty beat the Houston Comets in overtime in Houston. Scott and me, we was screaming at the television like you wouldn't believe. So happy! And as usual when the Liberty win everybody played their part. They are so teamy and ...Posted by Justine at 11:43, July 13th, 2005 under Basketball, Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Magic or Madness trilogy, Sport, Tour de France, Viewing | 1 Comment »
Ah! That’s more like it! (updated again)
England have to make 35 runs an over in order to win. They have but one wicket left. I'd call that a pretty difficult situation. Though, they could hit a six off every remaining ball, so it's not technically impossible. I feel so much better. The world is not spinning out of control. The curse has been lifted. Yes, it's only pyjama cricket, but I'll take it! I just hope this Australian victory doesn't mean the Pistons will lose tonight. Nope, not superstitious, me. Life is good. Update: now it's 61 runs an over. Yup, that's impossible. And now it's 73. And now, 120. Now 177. Aren't numbers fun? And then the match was over. Woo hoo! Update 2: My superstitious fear was ...Posted by Justine at 17:18, June 23rd, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, Sport | 3 Comments »
Basketball Good
Once Daughters was banished from my life, yesterday was all basketball all the time. First up: off to Madison Square Garden to watch the Liberty make easy work of destroying the San Antonio Silver Stars. We invited two friends of ours who've never seen the Liberty play. I believe we have a couple of converts. Yay! And then home to watch the final quarter of the sixth game of the NBA finals where the men's San Antonio team was also beaten. Dee-troit! Bas-ket-baaall! Now if only the cricket would start doing what I want it to!Posted by Justine at 9:25, June 22nd, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, Sport | 3 Comments »
Deee-troit! Baaas-ket-ball! (Part 2)
I love the way basketball makes a second seem like a really long time. The game is so fast it makes time slow down. I love that tonight seven Detroit players were in double figures. No stars. Lots of sharing the ball. Just like the WNBA.Posted by Justine at 23:56, June 16th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport | 4 Comments »
Deee-troit! Baaas-ket-ball!
That is all. No, I'm not going to talk about the Twenty20 match. On HDTV Ben Wallace looks like a god. That is really all. Good night.Posted by Justine at 0:09, June 15th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport | 5 Comments »
I Love Selena Roberts
Read this if you have any interest in women and sports and the lack of coverage thereof. Via women's hoops.Posted by Justine at 23:45, June 6th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport | Comments Off
Yay! Detroit won!
The only team in the men's basketball association with brains enough to play like a wnba team has beaten miami to make it through to the finals and go up against san antonio. What an excellent day this has been.Posted by Justine at 23:01, June 6th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport | Comments Off
Hoops, Reading, Signing, Talking
fun at MSG and Books of WonderPosted by Justine at 1:18, May 9th, 2005 under Basketball, Musings, Sport | Comments Off
O Happy Day!
The New York Liberty make it to the Eastern Conference FinalsPosted by Justine at 0:42, September 29th, 2004 under Basketball, Musings, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport | Comments Off
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