Saturday, January 03, 2009
Tennessee 55, Rutgers 51
Two belated holiday cards. Gail, who survived another difficult year, writes, "Hang on to what you believe in, maybe even yourself."
From Glen & Gina, an Asbury Park "Tillie" souvenir snow globe. That's something I believe in; not profound, but important in a way.
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One I missed: Eleanore Wysocki, age 94, May 28. Mark DiIonno wrote:
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We didn't get a signature big win from the women Scarlet Knights before their Big East schedule. They lost this one, badly, in the second half. They had a cold Tennessee frozen out in the first half, the Vols came back & took Rutgers apart at both ends of the court, scored 42 points. Rutgers' current no. 15 ranking is a gift, with two horrid losses to Stanford & Cal, & a squeaker against Prairie State. Some locker room dissension was apparently fixed with the departure of a talented but dissatisfied recruit, & then they had three solid victories. Big East consists of UConn (who may or may not be overrated at no. 1) & 15 other teams - most probably capable of defeating each other. Expect increasing criticism of Coach Stringer for not leaning more on her freshmen. So far, she's been cautiously correct in believing she shouldn't need them. If Rutgers can't handle the early part of the Big East schedule, she may have to give them more minutes. This isn't supposed to be a WNIT tournament team.
(1/5 The loss dropped Rutgers only two spots to 17, but from here on they'll have to add W's.)
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
From Glen & Gina, an Asbury Park "Tillie" souvenir snow globe. That's something I believe in; not profound, but important in a way.
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One I missed: Eleanore Wysocki, age 94, May 28. Mark DiIonno wrote:
Eleanore Wysocki, who died this week at 94, was a PTA president and a Girl Scout leader, a library volunteer and an insurance office worker. She was a dutiful and loving mother, and the matriarch of a close family that, at the time of her death, had given her 15 grandchildren and nine great-great grandchildren who all knew her as "G.G."So there's a third boardwalk legend along with E Streeter Danny Federici & Asbury Park fortuneteller Madam Marie Castello. I saw the Steel Pier shows in the Sixties, but I can't remember it if still had a motorcycle act. Diving Horse, yes.
Before all that, she was CeDora, the teenage daredevil, who performed above the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, in a show part-circus and part-vaudeville, made most famous by the diving horses. CeDora's act was a gravity-defying stunt, in which she would race around the inside of a tight steel globe on a bicycle or motorcycle.
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We didn't get a signature big win from the women Scarlet Knights before their Big East schedule. They lost this one, badly, in the second half. They had a cold Tennessee frozen out in the first half, the Vols came back & took Rutgers apart at both ends of the court, scored 42 points. Rutgers' current no. 15 ranking is a gift, with two horrid losses to Stanford & Cal, & a squeaker against Prairie State. Some locker room dissension was apparently fixed with the departure of a talented but dissatisfied recruit, & then they had three solid victories. Big East consists of UConn (who may or may not be overrated at no. 1) & 15 other teams - most probably capable of defeating each other. Expect increasing criticism of Coach Stringer for not leaning more on her freshmen. So far, she's been cautiously correct in believing she shouldn't need them. If Rutgers can't handle the early part of the Big East schedule, she may have to give them more minutes. This isn't supposed to be a WNIT tournament team.
(1/5 The loss dropped Rutgers only two spots to 17, but from here on they'll have to add W's.)
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