BEVERLY HILLS (MI) –- The last month or so has been totally filled with road trips for yours truly. First, I drove the future Dr. Younger Swampette down to UNC for a month-long Orthopedic Surgery rotation. Then Mrs. Swampy and I travelled to Pittsburgh and back for a wedding. We then ferried the FDYS to Chicago for another month-long rotation at Northwestern. The following weekend, I journeyed back to exurban Boston to scatter my father’s ashes over his favorite fishing spot and celebrate his life with my family. Now Mrs. Swampy and I are on the road yet again, this time to Stone Harbor, NJ and a much-needed, late-summer week on the beach.
I’m using my frequent driver miles to pay for the trip.
Before I go, it’s time to fire up the laptop and see what the intrawebs have to provide in the way of tasty linkage:
-- Dave Telep at ESPN.com provides the rules of engagement for the fall recruiting period that just commenced:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/re...contact-period
-- Shannon Russell of
The Cincinnati Enquirer did a nice Q&A with Archie recently:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...Ctext%7CXavier
And Shannon provided a few more queries and replies from both Arch and Chris Mack here:
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/xavier/2...archie-miller/
-- Prime Flyer recruiting target Eron Harris of Indy is visiting UD this weekend. If you haven’t seen any video on the kid, check out his summer highlight mixtape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfjmd...&feature=share
It would be sweet if Eron gave Arch a verbal commitment before he headed home on I-70.
-- Young Mr. Harris pulls in at #10 in the unbelievably loaded State of Indiana Class of 2012, according to InsidetheHall.com:
http://www.insidethehall.com/2011/08...12-rankings-2/
-- Looks like Tamron Manning of Kentucky will be playing his hoops somewhere other than Dayton, as he never did get the offer he was looking for from the Flyers:
http://blogs.courier-journal.com/jod...g-first-visit/
-- How
not to utilize Twitter when you are a college basketball player:
http://rushthecourt.net/2011/08/27/d...ay/#more-39928
-- How
not to run a “prep school” -- recruit 16 HS hoopsters, jam them all into one apartment in West Virginia and don’t bother to provide food:
http://www.dailymail.com/ap/ApTopStories/201109061364
-- The tragic tale of former super prep recruit Javaris Crittenton:
http://nationalhoopsreport.net/2011/...of-a-good-kid/
-- And now for something completely different – Pink Floyd’s
Another Brick in the Wall, as performed by a mariachi band!
http://www.dump.com/2011/07/23/origi...i-cabos-video/
-- Having worked at CNN for 10+ years, I have always held a rather low opinion of Rupert Murdoch.
Vanity Fair provides a detailed account of the phone hacking scandal cover-up that manages to make him look even scummier than I ever thought possible:
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/f...murdoch-201110
-- That’s not a crocodile. Now this,
this is a crocodile!
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/09...es/?test=faces
-- What happens when you combine soap bubbles with ferrofluids? This:
http://vimeo.com/28304264
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at:
swampy@udpride.com