Kyle Singler doesn’t get it yet

March 27th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

Oh, but you will Kyle. You will.

“We’ve become somewhat accustomed to it, but the new guys on our team aren’t accustomed to it,” Coach K’s wife, Mickie, told me. “J.J. Redick was accustomed to it, but Kyle Singler isn’t accustomed to it. It’s like, why? Kyle Singler is one of the all-time great kids, and he just walks out on the court and gets booed. It’s like, ‘What did I do wrong?’

At some point in the recruiting process, someone failed young Kyle. Whether you agree with Duke hate or not — I enjoy it if I actually hate the player, a la Greg Paulus, but admit I never found a reason to hate, say, Elton Brand — you have to admit it’s an hilarious fact of collegiate basketball life. And if you go to Duke, spend time on campus, and agree to sign a letter of intent, and you genuinely have no idea that in doing so you will be roundly booed at every away venue for the rest of your collegiate life … someone has failed you. Miserably.

Duke beats Belmont, but everyone is a doll

March 25th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Fact: Videos done with dolls as you do voice overs for said dolls are usually atrocious. One time I did this for a video in high school. Luckily it was never shown in class that day and I was able to file another more respectable video with my partner that evening and we were only marginally embarrassed with ourselves the next day. (Sidenote: How incredibly pointless was half the shit you did in high school? Really, I have to memorize this whole passage of Wuthering Heights for my quarter project and recite it to the class? Man, I can’t tell you how much that’s prepared me for life in the cubicle.)

Fact: my first tenant notwithstanding, the above NBC affiliate clip is pretty good. I mean, how did they find those little Duke t-shirts on such short notice? That’s attention to detail. That’s effort. That’s Gerald Henderson … the frog.

{HT: FanHouse | The Sporting Blog.}

Get your application to Duke’s flopping camp

March 14th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

I don’t really subscribe to the widespread Duke hatred. Sure, the whole pomp and circumstance surrounding the program can be too much and they’ve certainly had their fair share of douchey players, but I guess it’s hard to muster up any bit of venom towards a team that isn’t a direct rival of the Hoosiers. (Although, Duke has given the Bulls Jay Williams and Chris Duhon. Perhaps I should dislike them for that alone.)

In any event, people complain Duke are a bunch of floppers. And I think we’ve finally found the reason why:

Not real at all. But still totally hilarious.

{Via the Dagger, which I hear someone who contributes to this site now writes at.}