Streakin’

I confess, last night, I may have given up. I was unable to watch the game (Vanderbilt desperately needs to get Fox Sports South), and resorted to following the game on my phone. Obviously, gamecasts do not tell the entire story, but it looked ugly. Thirteen points in a quarter? Terrible. But the next two quarters were not a whole lot better. When I stopped watching, we were down 22 in the fourth quarter. Surely,READ MORE

My Thoughts on Opening Day

The following is a text I received on Christmas morning: “Merry Christmas Michael! Hope you are having a good day and watching some NBA!”

And that just about sums up my day yesterday. The gift giving (and receiving) were just about overshadowed by the thrill of the long-awaited opening day. The combination of these two was almost just too much for me to handle. So much joy, hope, and excitement for the new year. Just toREAD MORE

Merry Grizzmas

Grizzlife started around this day, two years ago. The Grizzlies were pretty bad then–only 8 months removed from the end of a 24-58 season–and had about as much depth as a sorority girl.

With the recent injury to Darrell Arthur, we don’t have much (maybe the depth of the YMCA deep end?) more when it comes to a bench. But it’s Grizzmas–a time of the year wonderful enough to make even Big Shot Bob see aREAD MORE

Why Last Season Wasn’t A Fluke

One season removed from a second-round playoff appearance, there are a number of key questions facing the Memphis Grizzlies heading into the 2011-2012 season. Will a healthy Rudy Gay be able to seamlessly transition into the offensive flow or will he disrupt the team’s mojo? What will the loss of Shane Battier, a seasoned veteran, mean for the team? Will Marc Gasol still play with fire now that he isn’t in a contract year?

The mostREAD MORE

The Glass Isn’t Even Close to Half-Full

In the few days since I’ve been back in Cashville, there have been a flurry of questions thrown my way: How was your summer? What’d you do? Excited to be a senior? (Hell no! This means I’m a real person with real responsibilities in about eight more months. Have you ever seen how excited business school students are to be back in a college environment? I have, and it does not have me juiced toREAD MORE

BSB’s BSB: The Most Pretentious Sentence Ever Written for ESPN?

So I’ve not done anything interesting enough to write about over the past couple weeks, but during my morning checks of vandysports.com (congratulations on Bowles UTK) and grantland.com, I came across what could be the most pretentiously written article I’ve ever read on a site related to ESPN. This may not even be the worst part of that one column because I quit reading after it, but here it is:

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Introducing Big Shot Bob’s Beale Street Blog

With the recent lack of material coming from our blog, the NBA lockout, and a shot of inspiration for Will Aldridge, known as Big Bill from here on out, I figured that I would create a venue allowing me to write unfocused ramblings about more than just the Grizzlies. With my very narrow knowledge base, most of the articles from this column will be on Vanderbilt athletics, all things Memphis and/or MUS, and various pop-cultureREAD MORE

An Off-Topic Post From an Otherwise Silent Blog

The playoffs are over, and Der Dirk, long alleged by MUS coaching great Jerry Peters to be the product of a Nazi experiment, saved American basketball fans everywhere from a LeBron championship, but we have had little to say about anything since Grizzbeck’s poetic piece on the Grizzlies’ playoff run and foggy future. Since then, an epic road trip spanning thirteen states has been made by three of our contributors, Jumpstop, Billings, and myself; IREAD MORE