Friday, July 27, 2007
27 July 2007
Former walk-on John Buck remembers coach Prosser.
I've been saying for awhile what a rip-off bottled water is. Turns out that both Coke (Dasani) and PepsiCo (Aquafina) are just selling bottled tap water. Check out the Story. Not only that, but the imported waters like Evian are incredibly expensive to ship across the ocean, wasting thousands of gallons of oil and gasoline while polluting our planet. Once those waters are consumed, most of the plastic bottles wind up in a landfil, not recycled. Do your wallet and your planet a favor, and instead of buying expensive bottled water simply purchase a Brita Filter Pitcher and a reusable water bottle like a nalgene, and bottle your own water with out the waste.
Former walk-on John Buck remembers coach Prosser.
I've been saying for awhile what a rip-off bottled water is. Turns out that both Coke (Dasani) and PepsiCo (Aquafina) are just selling bottled tap water. Check out the Story. Not only that, but the imported waters like Evian are incredibly expensive to ship across the ocean, wasting thousands of gallons of oil and gasoline while polluting our planet. Once those waters are consumed, most of the plastic bottles wind up in a landfil, not recycled. Do your wallet and your planet a favor, and instead of buying expensive bottled water simply purchase a Brita Filter Pitcher and a reusable water bottle like a nalgene, and bottle your own water with out the waste.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
26 July 2007
Correction- the triple OT win in the Dean Smith Center was not the year UNC won the nat'l championship. That win was during the 2003-2004 season, UNC won the championship the next year. Skip also beat UNC that year, at The Joel while his Deacons shot 100% from the free throw line.
So far THIS is the best article about Coach Prosser, compliments of SI.com, and referred by Cagney.
Also, Props Of The Day go to Neal Moody for not only having a birthday earlier this week, but being interviewed and quoted in the following article: CHECK IT OUT
RIP Skip, thoughts and prayers to the entire Prosser family and the WFU family.
Correction- the triple OT win in the Dean Smith Center was not the year UNC won the nat'l championship. That win was during the 2003-2004 season, UNC won the championship the next year. Skip also beat UNC that year, at The Joel while his Deacons shot 100% from the free throw line.
So far THIS is the best article about Coach Prosser, compliments of SI.com, and referred by Cagney.
Also, Props Of The Day go to Neal Moody for not only having a birthday earlier this week, but being interviewed and quoted in the following article: CHECK IT OUT
RIP Skip, thoughts and prayers to the entire Prosser family and the WFU family.
26 July 2007
Heart breaking news out of my beloved Winston-Salem, NC this afternoon: WFU head men's basketball coach Skip Prosser is dead at the age of 56 after suffering an apparent heart attack while jogging.
Coach Prosser was the only bball coach at Wake while I was a student there, and he is responsible for many of my most vivid and happy memories at Wake. The overtime (I think it was double or triple) victory in The Joel against Duke my freshman year. The triple overtime victory in the Dean Dome against UNC during their national championship season. Celebrating victories on the quad, and the school's only national No. 1 ranking as well as the ACC regular season title in 2003.
Former NCSU head coach and current Arizona State Head Coach Herb Sendek: "Skip was a gentleman and someone who represented what was good about our profession. He was the kind of person you wanted your son to play for."
More info available below:
ESPN
Yahoo!
Fox Sports
A sad day in Wake Forest history.
Heart breaking news out of my beloved Winston-Salem, NC this afternoon: WFU head men's basketball coach Skip Prosser is dead at the age of 56 after suffering an apparent heart attack while jogging.
Coach Prosser was the only bball coach at Wake while I was a student there, and he is responsible for many of my most vivid and happy memories at Wake. The overtime (I think it was double or triple) victory in The Joel against Duke my freshman year. The triple overtime victory in the Dean Dome against UNC during their national championship season. Celebrating victories on the quad, and the school's only national No. 1 ranking as well as the ACC regular season title in 2003.
Former NCSU head coach and current Arizona State Head Coach Herb Sendek: "Skip was a gentleman and someone who represented what was good about our profession. He was the kind of person you wanted your son to play for."
More info available below:
ESPN
Yahoo!
Fox Sports
A sad day in Wake Forest history.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
25 July 2007
Props Of The Day: Tristan Keys- future Demon Deacon, Congrats on Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Awesome.
Do you think you have what it takes to be on Discovery Chanel's "Man vs Wild"? Could you survive for 3 or 4 days in the desert, rain forest, jungle or other remote region with little to no resources? Whats that Mr. Eagle Scout, you think you could do it w/ just your MacGuyver swiss army knife and a mirror? Well, as it turns out, you may not have to. How's hotel accommodations at night sound? I didn't know room service delivered to the Serengeti or to the rain forest. Get the details here.
This also would have been props of the day were it not for the recent events to claim the last two awards, but Kevin jumped out of an airplane last weekend. An airplane. Crazy. Did I mention he had a "professional" strapped to his crotch? As if that makes it safer. That just means if the shute doesn't deploy Kevin's hitting the ground first. Luckily, that didn't happen and thus Kevin gets official BadAss (BAMF) status. NICE. Next time try doing it into a jungle with just a swiss army knife.
Props Of The Day: Tristan Keys- future Demon Deacon, Congrats on Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Awesome.
Do you think you have what it takes to be on Discovery Chanel's "Man vs Wild"? Could you survive for 3 or 4 days in the desert, rain forest, jungle or other remote region with little to no resources? Whats that Mr. Eagle Scout, you think you could do it w/ just your MacGuyver swiss army knife and a mirror? Well, as it turns out, you may not have to. How's hotel accommodations at night sound? I didn't know room service delivered to the Serengeti or to the rain forest. Get the details here.
This also would have been props of the day were it not for the recent events to claim the last two awards, but Kevin jumped out of an airplane last weekend. An airplane. Crazy. Did I mention he had a "professional" strapped to his crotch? As if that makes it safer. That just means if the shute doesn't deploy Kevin's hitting the ground first. Luckily, that didn't happen and thus Kevin gets official BadAss (BAMF) status. NICE. Next time try doing it into a jungle with just a swiss army knife.
