intelligenthoodlum
09-23-2008, 01:06 PM
Sports fans--discriminating, and otherwise--the IH is coming up on his 1,000th post at HoopGurlz.com.
That's 1,000 times that the IH gave his OPINION, amongst the heathens who thought 1,000 times that the IH was an educated idiot.
That's 1,000 times that the IH thought that them pundits, scouts, college coaches, school and club coaches, and parents were smoking too many trees; while that same band of gypsies thought 1,000 times that the IH was, well, just another one of the brothers--not the REAL word, sports fans, if you know what the IH means--with the chest puffed out...
So, what will you sports fans do to celebrate the 1,000th post of The Man Who Thinks He Knows Almost Everything? Of the man who calls himself The Dispenser Of Logic for the MD/DC/VA/WVA Region? Of the man who invented his own cyber chill spot, The Relax Room, and created his own relationship with a cutie cager, Nicole Powell, to go with it?
To be continued, to be certain...
intelligenthoodlum
10-08-2008, 10:01 AM
With his 1,000th post on ESPN HoopGurlz.com, the IH would like to congratulate each and every one of the girls in the MD/DC/VA/WV region, on being selected as a Sporting News/Street & Smith's All-American:
Second Team
- Tierra Ruffin-Pratt, 5-10, 2009, T.C. Williams/Alexandria, Virginia;
Fifth Team
- Elizabeth Williams, 6-3, 2011, Princess Anne/Virginia Beach, Virginia;
Sixth Team
- TaShaunda Rodgers, 5-10, 2009, King's Fork/Suffolk, Virginia (Georgetown commit);
Honorable Mention
- Olivia Applewhite, 6-0, 2009, Eleanor Roosevelt/Greenbelt, Maryland (Dayton commit);
- Whitney Bays, 6-2, 2010, Huntington/Huntington, Virginia;
- Alyssa Bennett, 6-0, 2009, Oak Hill Academy/Mouth of Wilson, Virginia;
- Courtney Bryant, 5-7, 2009, Stone Bridge/Chantilly, Virginia;
- Asya Bussie, 6-3, 2009, Seton Keough/Baltimore, Maryland (West Virginia commit);
- Tiara Butler, 5-10, 2010, North Point/Waldorf, Maryland (Syracuse commit);
- Tiffany Davis, 5-8, 2009, Hampton/Hampton, Virginia;
- Simone Egwu, 6-2, 2009, Arundel/Gambrills, Maryland (Virginia commit);
- Ataira Franklin, 5-11, 2010, Riverdale Baptist/Upper Marlboro, Maryland (Virginia commit);
- Carleeda Green, 5-7, 2009, H.D. Woodson/Washington, D.C. (North Carolina State commit);
- Elashier Hall, 5-11, 2009, Eleanor Roosevelt/Greenbelt, Maryland (Syracuse commit);
- Tianna Hawkins, 6-2, 2009, Riverdale Baptist/Upper Marlboro, Maryland (Maryland commit);
- Tierra Hawkins, 6-0, 2010, Riverdale Baptist/Upper Marlboro, Maryland;
- Danielle Jackson, 5-3, 2009, Forest Park/Woodbridge, Virginia;
- Dymond James, 5-10, 2009, St. John's College/Washington, D.C. (Air Force Academy commit);
- Arielle Johnson, 6-5, 2010, Oak Hill Academy/Mouth of Wilson, Virginia;
- Jeniece Johnson, 6-5, 2009, H.D. Woodson/Washington, D.C. (North Carolina State commit);
- Kalia Johnson, 5-10, 2011, Thomas Dale/Chester, Virginia;
- Nicole Krusen, 5-11, 2010, Georgetown Visitation/Washington, D.C.;
- Kristine Mial, 5-10, 2009, Robert E. Lee/Springfield, Virginia (James Madison commit);
- Nikki Newman, 6-0, 2009, Turner-Ashby/Bridgewater, Virginia (James Madison commit);
- Jazmin Pitts, 6-0, 2010, Cosby/Chesterfield, Virginia (Virginia commit);
- Ronika Ransford, 5-8, 2010, H.D. Woodson/Washington, D.C.;
- Abby Redick, 6-1, 2009, Hidden Valley/Roanoke, Virginia (Virginia Tech commit);
- Akeema Richards, 5-8, 2009, Western/Baltimore, Maryland (West Virginia commit);
- Rahneeka Saunders, 5-6, 2009, Riverdale Baptist/Upper Marlboro, Maryland (George Mason commit);
- Sheronne Vails, 6-3, 2010, Arundel/Gambrills, Maryland;
- Bailey Webster, 6-3, 2009, St. Paul's/Baltimore, Maryland;
- Kyani White, 5-5, 2010, Stonewall Jackson/Manassas, Virginia (Virginia Tech commit);
- Nyree Williams, 6-1, 2009, Howard/Ellicott City, Maryland (North Carolina commit);
- Sydney Wilson, 6-6, 2009, St. John's College/Washington, D.C. (Georgetown commit);
- Brandi Wingate-Holland, 6-1, 2009, Howard/Ellicott City, Maryland.
For those of you who go hard at being drum-beaters for the D-M-V, that's 35 MD/DC/VA/WV-region girls, out of a total of 83 girls in the East region--representing the entire Eastern Seaboard, from Maine to Virginia. For you numbers nerds, that's 42% of the total East region, as D-M-V representation!
The IH would also like to congratulate H.D. Woodson/Washington, D.C. and Riverdale Baptist/Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on being listed as 2 of The Top Twenty Teams In The Country To Watch.
A further breakdown, for you sports fans who may care:
High School Representation
Riverdale Baptist, 4 players;
H.D. Woodson, 3 players;
Oak Hill Academy, 2 players;
Arundel, 2 players;
St. John's College, 2 players;
Eleanor Roosevelt, 2 players;
Howard, 2 players.
Club Program Representation
Boo Williams Elite, 9 players;
Fairfax Stars, 7 players;
Team Unique, 3 players;
D.C. Lady Cobras, 3 players.
Street & Smith's was the original bible featuring elite high school players, some 20+ years ago; and has featured girls for about 15 years, or so. It was bought out by Sporting News a few years ago.
On the girls side, Street & Smith has always been accused of displaying a distinct Nike/Blue Star bias, in its selections of players and high school teams. A casual glance at this year's listings would also seem to support those accusations.
Whatever the deal may be, S&S has always been a nice way to start off the school season, with its previews and predictions of HIGH SCHOOL success. Of course, it's also been a great way to spark off debate about all things POLITICAL for high school and club basketball.
All living things seem to care so much about LISTINGS AND RANKINGS. What plant gets the most sun. What building is the tallest. Who's fastest; who's quickest; who jumps the highest. Who's the best scorer; who's the best defender. Who has the most potential. Who has the most talent. Who's the best player.
And then, there are the political considerations: what school AND club teams do you roll with; what gear company does your school AND club teams roll with; does your gear company roll with a particular scouting service.
Let's also factor in whether, or not, you're black and non-threatening--and if you're non-threatening, you DON'T have to have real grades and personality--or whether, or not, you're NON-black and have some level of Barbie doll in you AND you play hard--but might seem to be a little short in the talent department.
To top it all off, who's your drum-beater--that is, who's the head of your fan club, and hyping you the most? Is it your school/club coach? Is it some college coach? Is it an event operator, a scout, a pundit, a gear-company operative? Is it merely a parent on this message board, posting under a funky stage name like we can't figure out who they are?
Is it a co-signing hater of ANOTHER player, so consumed with that hate on the other player, that they're over-hyping YOU instead?
We can't discount the posters who get SO PUMPED UP at having a chance to express an opinion in an open forum, that it's like HOT SEX for them, and they'll just say ANYTHING to get off...
Message boards are based on OPINIONS of the posters, and on the back-and-forth sparked off by these opinions.
Put ANY any listing and ranking on a message board, however, and it's like setting off a nuclear bomb to make ONE DISSIDENT submit to another person's will!
"Yeah, but the fallout from the blast poisoned EVERYONE'S water, you IDIOT!"
The IH would like to thank ALL posters on EVERY message board, for always giving the IH the impetus to THINK, BEFORE HE POSTS.
With the IH's 1,000th post, he would like to give special note to:
- pgcop;
- DALIST;
- arbitraryj;
- quimica2;
- fhire;
- DEGurlzHoops;
- HighLevel;
- smokeyhip4;
- Rodder08;
- da silent 1;
- our moderator lboogie (when are you gonna get a real job?);
- and the HoopGurlz.com team of Mark, Mindy, Clay, Chris, and Glenn (for allowing and insisting that the IH be himself, but REAL...);
- all girls and women's basketball message boards and posters UNIVERSAL, for appointing the IH as Dispenser Of Logic, Defender Of Real Basketball;
- to ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU--and to your competitors Fox-Atlantic, Fox-Central, and Fox-Pacific (for giving the IH the opportunity to eyeball college women's basketball 24 hours a day, in-season);
- to The Two Mikes, Flynn and White, for the Ringling Bros. vibes; to adidas and Nike, for the gas; to the AAU, in its Infinite Wisdom to service the all-American family; to Boo Williams, for being like a "father" to the IH; to the NCAA, for its position papers on Sphincter Theories In 20th- and 21st-Century American Culture; to USA Basketball, for ALWAYS KNOWING WHAT'S BEST; to the NBA, for keeping the WNBA relevant;
- to all the cute female college coaches, assistant AND head, for holding the IH's attention, when all of your programs, coaching staffs, and players are just straight trippin'.
And finally, thanks to Boo Williams Elite, The Fairfax Stars, and Team Unique, for keeping the D-M-V soap opera moving...
From the IH--Dispenser Of Logic, Defender Of Real Basketball--to the D-M-V, to be continued, to be certain...
And ALWAYS remember, sports fans, that the D-M-V is LIKE that, and EVERYONE knows it...
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